ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 377
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Apr 25 16:47:17 PDT 2008
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TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE
by Kevin Matthews
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Just about a year ago, Al Gore rocked the national AIA
Convention in San Antonio with a climactic final keynote
address, and received a prolonged standing ovation from
thousands of architects who had lined up for hours to
get in.
Gore expressed the compelling case on global climate
change, anchoring the powerful presentation with this
silver spur to action for design professionals:
Never before in the history of our species has the
opportunity and responsibility to decisively affect the
continuation of life as we know it lain in the hands of
a single profession, as it does today with architects.
The case for such drama is pretty simple. Around a
third of the world's greenhouse gas emissions currently
come from the production, operation, and occupancy of
the world's buildings. While much of society affects
the location, development, and use of buildings in one
way or another, no other professional is as central to
these processes as architecture.
Architecture is Pivotal
When we also consider the share of local and regional
transportation, and the share of natural carbon storage
disruption, that are determined as well by the location,
production, and use of buildings, then we reach half or
more of greenhouse gas emissions as related to
buildings.
If that half of our greenhouse gas emissions are not
quickly controlled and dramatically reduced, then
whatever happens with the other half, humankind will
fail in protecting the climate in which we have evolved.
Conversely, if the building-related half of emissions
are controlled and drastically reduced, then we will be
well on our way to a successful response to the crisis
we unwittingly initiated.
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Australian Gold for Richard Johnson
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Over the course of his 38-year career, Richard Johnson,
designer of many major cultural buildings in Sydney, has
worked on scales ranging from exhibit design to urban
design. His projects have included world expo pavilions,
museums, embassies, schools, office buildings, hotels,
master plans, and landscape design, many with his
current firm, Johnson Pilton Walker of Sydney.
The Australian architect has been awarded the 2008 Gold
Medal for Architecture by the Royal Australian Institute
of Architects (RAIA).
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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Illinois - Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design LLC in
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Architecture in New York, New York - HOK in Los
Angeles, California - Diamond and Schmitt Architects in
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Associates in Camarillo, California - Spacesmith in New
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