The book launch of It’s About Time. The Architecture of Climate Change, is the opportunity to meet the authors Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka and guests Alice Babini (Babini Geysen Architects), Benoit Lanon (51N4E), Els Van Meerbeek (Carton123), and Joachim Declerck (Architecture Workroom Brussels).

The history of climate change and the history of architecture are connected in many ways: while architects contributed to building the fossil-fuel-driven world that has led to the current ecological collapse, they also explored and developed various alternatives to mitigate the effects of global warming. It’s About Time. The Architecture of Climate Change presents historical and contemporary projects along with over 45 key moments in the history of environmental awareness. It conceptualizes the present as the moment in which awareness, urgency, and opportunity converge to point toward radically sustainable futures. Urgent in its message, the book asserts that the momentum to realize change has arrived, and that the field of architecture plays an important role in the systemic transitions we are moving toward. 

Over de last decades, Brussels has become a laboratory for practices of change and a city where architecture is part of both an ecological and social transition. How can design practice help mitigating the effects of global warming? Should we implement more circular or carbon-free ways of building? And what is the role of policy makers and public clients? Through recent projects such as La Ferme du Chaudron (51N4E and Plant and Houtgoed), Stadsatelier De Ville (Babibi Geysen/Schenk Hattori) and Fabiola, Standaertsite (Carton123) we will discuss concrete design strategies for an architecture of change.  

PRACTICAL INFORMATION :
16.12.24 | 19:00 
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