To understand and respond to the global environmental crises of the Anthropocene poses a unique challenge to architecture, itself a producer of environments. What are the ways in which architecture and the environment relate to one another" We ask this question not to clarify such a relationship but to complicate it, because we suspect that it is in the complications that we will find grounds for alternative futures. We want to salvage strategies and politics, and forms of collaboration and solidarity from the history of architecture?s uses and abuses of nature. ...