Interview by Kira Gould with Vincent Martinez and Pamela Conrad. Featured in Architect.
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. Increasingly, we recognize buildings as infrastructure and recognize infrastructure and exterior spaces as part of the built environment. Designers have influential roles in creating these spaces, with responsibilities encompassing planning and materials choices. Uniting the efforts of architects with those of their peers in landscape architecture, planning, and engineering is already commonplace in—and critical to—complex projects. It’s time to bring such collaboration in the built environment community to bear at all scales to advance and accelerate climate action…
