The results of an ongoing project that aims to understand staff and student engagement with climate change suggest that architecture schools are potentially a revolutionizing force for the whole profession, but that they need to leave behind some obstructive ideological debates.
Are architecture students and academics alarmed about climate change? Of the 637 respondents to the Australasia-wide Climate Literacy and Action in Architecture Education survey released in late 2021, 95 percent of staff and students described “high” or “very high” levels of concern, while the same percentage wanted to see more teaching about climate change in the architecture curriculum (Figure 1).1 The survey respondents were also optimistic: 95 percent either ‘’agreed” or “strongly agreed” that architecture can play a positive role in addressing the climate crisis. And 70 to 80 percent of respondents were “confident” or “very confident” in teaching or learning about climate change.
These results are not surprising. The mounting impacts of global warming, as well as the imperatives of decarbonization and disaster mitigation, will
