Stirling Prize winning architecture firms including Zaha Hadid Architects, David Chipperfield Architects and Foster + Partners are calling on all UK architects to adopt a "shift in behaviour" over climate change.
Amanda Levete's firm AL_A, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and Alison Brooks Architects have also joined Architects Declare, an initial group of 17 architecture studios calling for collective action to confront the climate and biodiversity emergencies.
"The twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss are the most serious issue of our time," Architects Declare said in a statement.
"For everyone working in the construction industry, meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth's ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift in our behaviour," they added. "The research and technology exist for us to begin that transformation now, but what has been lacking is collective will."
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The founding members of Architects Declare, who have all won the UK's top architecture prize, have pledged to design buildings, cities and infrastructures with a more positive impact on the environment, which could then be part of a larger self-sustaining system. The organisation is inviting all other architecture studios to make the same commitment.
The built environment currently accounts for 40 per cent of the UK's carbon emissions according to the UK Green Building Council....