Discussion of the past and future of architecture and energy, with Barnabas Calder

Call for Papers: For this issue of Future Anterior , we welcome papers that examine historical or contemporary
retrofitting practices and theories in relation to climate crises and energy challenges. Although
“‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” served as a catchy public education tool for American environmental
activists and American practitioners in th…[Read more]

A new essay on e-flux architecture exploring how to transform architectural discourse in the face of climate instability and capital accumulation. Part of the Overgrowth series, out of the Oslo Architecture Triennial

A discussion of the energy history of the Bauhaus Dessau (Gropius, et. al, 1925) which focuses on how the building took advantage of the emergent coal economy, and reflects on the future of the fossil-fuel dependent icon, after carbon.

This essay, for Log, the journal of record of autonomous architecture, urges architects to consider comfort and the thermal interior as a site for creativity.