Passive cooling is back: a blunt answer to overheating, energy strain, and carbon-heavy comfort.
Museums and civic projects are being redesigned as climate tools that shade, cool, and connect urban neighborhoods.
Studio i/thee shows how mud, algae, and weather can co-design buildings—and redefine architectural performance.
Timber burial markets sell carbon virtue, but the image of forests under bulldozers turns climate accounting into an architectural scandal.
Why enclosed courtyards are returning as a smart domestic response to heat, density, privacy, and microclimate.
The dogtrot house shows how vernacular spatial logic could power climate-smart housing—if architects avoid nostalgia.
Studio Gang’s Hudson Valley Shakespeare theater raises the question: is mass timber a climate strategy or just sustainable theatre?
