Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency: 2021

Sofie Pelsmakers is an environmental architect, educator and researcher, and the author of the Environmental Design Pocketbook. She is an expert in holistic sustainable architecture, actual performance of buildings over time (including validation methods), low energy, zero carbon buildings and retrofit, and sustainable design pedagogies. Sofie is actively engaged in making a difference in architecture by training the next generation of architects and influencing those in practice through her teaching, publications, and public speaking/workshops. She is currently Assistant Professor at Tampere University, Finland, where she chairs the Sustainable Housing Design research group.

Nick Newman is Director of Studio Bark and U-Build. His experience spans environmental architecture, climate activism, building performance evaluation and deep energy retrofits. He is a Passivhaus designer and has contributed to a number of journals and publications, including the Environmental Design Pocketbook and the Passivhaus Designer’s Manual. He speaks regularly at events on behalf of the studio and was named a ‘Rising Sustainability Star’ by Building magazine in 2015. Nick is an advocate for radical responses to the Climate Emergency and was arrested in October 2019 for his involvement in the Extinction Rebellion protests, which brought central London to a standstill.

Sofie Pelsmakers is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Architecture at Tampere University, Finland. She is an environmental architect, educator and researcher, and the author of the Environmental Design Pocketbook. She is an expert in holistic sustainable architecture, building performance, low energy, zero carbon buildings and retrofit, and sustainable design pedagogies. She is actively engaged in making a difference in architecture by training the next generation of architects through her teaching, publications, and public speaking/workshops. Nick Newman is Director of Studio Bark and U-Build. His experience spans environmental architecture, climate activism, building performance evaluation and deep energy retrofits. Nick is a Passivhaus Designer and has contributed to a number of journals and publications, including the Environmental Design Pocketbook and the Passivhaus Designer's Manual. He speaks regularly at events on behalf of the studio and was named a 'Rising Sustainability Star' by Building magazine in 2014. Nick is an advocate for radical responses to the Climate Emergency and was arrested in October 2019 for his involvement in the Extinction Rebellion protests, which brought Central London to a standstill.

Editor's Note Creating Change with Impact: An Architect's Manifesto By Dorte Mandrup Not Opposites: A Conversation with Hiroshi Sambuichi on Architecture and Nature By Andrew Barrie Think Before You Build By Kari Kytoela, Paulina Sawczuk and Satu Huuhka Movement Building: Activism in an Age of Crisis By Tom Bennett The Sponge City: Planning, Design and Political Design By Kongjian Yu Contesting the Architect's Role Through Radical Participatory Design: A Discussion with Al Borde and raumlabor By Mario Kolkwitz and Elina Luotonen Transforming Education in a Climate Emergency By Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) Architectural Learning for a Sustainable Future By Elizabeth Donovan, Urszula Kozminska, Nacho Ruiz Allen and Thomas R. Hilberth Hope in the Burning World By Kasia Nawratek Towards a Zero Carbon Architecture: Clay Field, Suffolk, UK; Goldsmith Street, Norwich, UK; Housing for City of York, UK By Mikhail Riches Radical Sustainable Architecture: Kingsdale School, London, UK By Alex de Rijke at dRMM Co-housing Project: Vindmollebakken, Stavanger, Norway By Siv Helene Stangeland at Helen & Hard Architects Implementing Sustainability: Upcycle Studios, Orestad, Denmark; Resource Rows, Orestad, Denmark; Olympic Pavilion, Tokyo, Japan; UN17 Village, Copenhagen, Denmark By Anders Lendager at Lendager Group A Choreography of Bricks: School of Dancing Arches, Bhadran, India By Samira Rathod Adaptation Out of Necessity: Cuba By Anyana Zimmerman and Fabian Rodriguez Izquierdo Sustainability is Not Enough: SBRC, University of Wollongong, Australia; Burnwood Brickworks, Melbourne, Australia; The Paddock, Castlemaine, Australia By Stephen Choi Final Word