Book: INTEGRATE is out now.

“INTEGRATE - Architecture Under the Influence of Climate Change / Architektur unter Einfluss des Klimawandels” is out now!

Available in print and open access online (link).

The projects selected for this publication show a range of approaches to making energy, carbon emissions, and their underpinning principles explicit in studio design work undertaken at the Department of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Over the past decades, the discussion of environmental sustainability in the building sectors has been regularly polarized between low- and high-tech, used as a superficial catchphrase, or perceived as restrictive to development. The projects in this book demonstrate that we must abandon overly simplistic mindsets toward systemic and life-cycle thinking. Additionally, the mix of included projects underscores that highly sustainable buildings can be produced from many different design perspectives, ranging from a focus on efficient technologies to materials and geometry.