<p>'The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability.’
Think about architecture and you probably think about tall buildings of steel and glass.
But the theme of this year’s Sharjah Architecture Triennial is design influenced by scarcity – and how we can build in a way that adapts to decreasing resources and hotter climates. Africa has been d ... Show More
Nov 2023
Rammed earth: What is it and can it help tackle climate change?
Cement is said to be responsible for 8% of global carbon emissions. In the search for an alternative, more sustainable construction material, building companies in Ghana and other African countries are reviving an ancient technique called ‘rammed earth’. Daniel Dadzie, a BBC repo ... Show More
15m 32s
Oct 2021
Antoine Picon, "The Materiality of Architecture" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In The Materiality of Architecture (U Minnesota Press, 2021), an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the ... Show More
26m 5s
Mar 2023
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, "Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions" (Routledge, 2020)
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson's book Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge, 2020) brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal.
The ma ... Show More
30m 13s
Nov 2022
Episode 131: Tone Wheeler shares his views on some famous & recently-deceased Australian architects and architectural educators
<p>Architect, lecturer, columnist and founder of environa studio Tone Wheeler shares his many thoughts about the evolution of architectural teaching in Australia as well as the concept of architectural engineering.<br/><br/>You can also see Tone Wheeler live at the 2022 Sustainab ... Show More
32 m
Nov 2021
Conchita Anorve-Tschirgi and Ehsan Abushadi, "The Architecture of Ramses Wissa Wassef" (AU of Cairo Press, 2019)
The pioneering Egyptian architect and teacher Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–74) is best known for his founding in 1951 of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre in Harraniya, a small village near the Giza Pyramids in Greater Cairo. The center, internationally acclaimed for its tapestries ... Show More
18m 20s
<p>Tosin Oshinowo is a Lagos-based architect and curator of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. </p><br><p>Titled "<a href="https://www.sharjaharchitecture.org/pages/triennial-2023" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The beauty of Impermanence, an Architecture of Adap ... Show More
