Architects will join leading academics and campaigners to consider how the architecture industry should respond to a climate emergency at Architecture Foundation and Barbican's upcoming summit.
Curated by the Architecture Foundation's deputy director and Dezeen columnist Phineas Harper, The Architecture of Emergency summit will take place in the main theatre of the Barbican on 19 September 2019.
"Architecture and the materials it is made from accounts for an extraordinary proportion of global greenhouse gases," Harper told Dezeen.
"Yet as an industry, our potential to lead the fight against global heating is matched only by our failure to do so."
The summit will address how the industry tackles climate change. Gif by Architecture Foundation Dezeen is media partner for the event, which will examine the industry's emissions and reliance on extracted natural materials as well its failure to address how it will reverse these effects.
Issues on the table include what we build from when it is no longer possible to justify the embodied carbon of a building's construction by offsetting its impact over decades of use, and how infrastructure and planning strategies can drive the transition to a circular economy.
The event is a timely response to what Harper describes as "an explosion of climate awareness".
It will bring together a diverse range of contributors from across and beyond the built environment professions, including Steve Tompkins, founding ...