Ecoredux: Design Remedies For An Ailing Planet
by Kallipoliti Lydia /
2017 / English / PDF
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This issue of AD explores the remarkable resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination. As a symptom of a new sociopolitical reality inundated with environmental catastrophes, sudden climatic changes, garbage-packed metropolises and para-economies of non-recyclable e-waste, environmental consciousness and the image of the earth re-emerges, after the 1960s, as an inevitable cultural armature for architects now faced with the urgency to heal an ill-managed planet that is headed towards evolutionary bankruptcy. At present though, in a world that has suffered severe loss of resources, the new wave of ecological architecture is not solely directed to the ethics of the world's salvation, yet rather upraises as a psycho-spatial or mental position, fuelling a reality of change, motion and action. Coined as EcoRedux', this position differs from utopia in that it does not explicitly seek to be right it recognises pollution and waste as generative potentials for design. In this sense, projects that may appear at first sight as science-fictional are not part of a foreign sphere, unassociated with the real, but an extrusion of our own realms and operations.
- Contributors include: Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner (HWKN), Fabiola Lpez-Durn and Nikki Moore, Anthony Vidler and Mark Wigley.
- Featured architects: Anna Pla Catal, Jonathan Enns, Eva Franch-Gilabert. Mitchell Joachim (Terreform One), Franois Roche (R&Sie(n)), Rafi Segal, Alexandros Tsamis and Eric Vergne.
