The Great Transition

Climax Change!, Elisa Iturbe, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, No Density, Pedro Gadanho, Politics and economics, Talk.

Architect’s role, Climate change, Climax Change, Cultural agitator, Education, Energy saving, talk, Transition, Urban Paradigms.

This conversation is part of the Climax Change! Series, curated and hosted by Pedro Gadanho, in the context of his book Climax Change! How architecture must transform in the age of ecological emergency, published by Actar Publishers.

Elisa Iturbe, critic at the Yale School of Architecture and Assistant Professor Adjunct at the Cooper Union, discusses how Climate Change is a spatial problem that needs the contribution of architects and designers towards a reorientation of the built environment. She supports a fair energy transition and questioning architecture’s role in the reformulation of what he profession is doing.