Architecture 2030’s collaboration with Climate Positive Design (first publicly discussed in ARCHITECT’s July/August 2022 issue) is part of an important shift toward more holistic thinking about the built environment (buildings, landscapes, and infrastructure) through the lens of materials and carbon.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Metropolis cover story that launched Edward Mazria’s career as a climate and environmental activist. The blunt and glaring cover—designed by Pentagram’s D.J. Stout and commissioned by Criswell Lappin—showed a rolled-up set of architecture plans shaped like a smokestack and billowing black smoke, with the accompanying headline “Architects Pollute”.
The AEC industry has made significant progress toward reducing the energy that buildings use and the carbon they emit. In a 2023 article for ARCHITECT, Architecture 2030 founder Ed Mazria, FAIA, examined a 2022 U.S. Energy Information Administration study and highlighted promising decarbonization trends in the built environment, including the decoupling of emissions and building sector growth.
