Material Cultures: Material Reform - Building for a Post-Carbon Future (reprint 2024)

Our current modus operandi can´t support the kinds of futures we envision for ourselves and those to come. As architects, builders and citizens, we must urgently rethink our relationship to the land and to each other to produce new forms of material practice, culture and economy in solidarity with people and our landscapes.

This book form research and design practice Material Cultures explores the cultures, systems and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. Through a series of incisive texts bringing together concepts and practice, it explores how developing a direct relationship with materials can equip us for a post-carbon future and foster new languages of construction