Sofie Pelsmakers: 'Sustainable architecture is "architecture on steroids" – it needs to perform'

Haworth Tompkins' Diana Dina: 'We want to share ideas with other practices': 4. Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Diana Dina, head of sustainability and regenerative design at Haworth Tompkins, shares her insights on how to be a changemaker in a large architecture practice. The episode also features a discussion with La... by AJ Climate Champions

41 min listen

Steve Webb & Wilf Meynell: ‘We’re brainwashed into steel and concrete mode’: 8. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. Steve Webb of Webb Yates Engineers explains how to persuade clients to use more timber and stone, and Wilf Meynell shares Studio Bark’s approach to Victorian house extensions. Webb describes what it will take ... by AJ Climate Champions

47 min listen

Sarah Wigglesworth: 'Sustainable architecture is fantastically creative': 5. Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. This episode centres on the retrofit of Stock Orchard Street, Wigglesworth's home and office completed in 2001. The Stock Orchard Street retrofit, completed in 2020, tackled maintenance and repair, a deep e... by AJ Climate Champions

39 min listen

Maria Smith: 'It's depressing how much architects are the problem': 1. Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Buro Happold's director of sustainability explains why she felt she had to leave architecture and retrain as an engineer. by AJ Climate Champions

41 min listen

Annalie Riches: 'We need more projects that show sustainable design isn't ugly': 2. Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Mikhail Riches' Annalie Riches discusses the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street scheme, and the critical importance of learning from completed projects. Sponsored by the Green Building Store. by AJ Climate Champions

40 min listen

Harry Paticas on empowering communities through the low-carbon retrofit of primary schools: 7. AJ Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Harry Paticas explains why he left architectural practice to focus on retrofitting schools, and how he educates schoolchildren on the climate emergency. After more than a decade at Arboreal Architecture, ... by AJ Climate Champions

45 min listen

Owen Hatherley on Modernism + Will Hurst explains RetroFirst (bonus episode): Bonus episode. AJ Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Author and critic Owen Hatherley describes approaches to the retrofit of Modernist buildings, lessons learned from post-Soviet housing and why he thinks White Design’s straw bale Lilac Cohousi... by AJ Climate Champions

47 min listen

Philippe Madec on combining sustainable development with Frampton’s critical regionalism: Episode 23. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. In this episode, we continue our focus on France, speaking to one of the country’s leading practitioners of ecological architecture. Over four decades, Philippe Madec has combined practice, teaching a... by AJ Climate Champions

42 min listen

Sofie Pelsmakers: 'Sustainable architecture is "architecture on steroids" – it needs to perform': 3. Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Architect, author, educator and sustainability expert Sofie Pelsmakers shares insights on sustainable design from the Nordic region, and discusses the urgent need for top-down architecture curriculum reform. by AJ Climate Champions

44 min listen

Anna Heringer: 'You can build with clay in a very modern way': 6. Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. In the final episode in this series, German architect Anna Heringer talks to the AJ about mainstream building with earth, her 'Corona baby' – a birth space in the Vorarlberg region of Austria, and her pipeli... by AJ Climate Champions

43 min listen

Guy Shrubsole on rewilding Britain and greening our cities: 9. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. In this first of several episodes on landscape and biodiversity, we speak to Guy Shrubsole, policy and campaigns co-ordinator at Rewilding Britain and author of Who Owns England? Shrubsole explains why land ow... by AJ Climate Champions

46 min listen

Landscape architect Jo Gibbons on why trees matter, urban forestry and greening our cities: 11. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. In this second episode on landscape, we speak to Jo Gibbons of landscape practice J&L Gibbons whose wide-ranging work encompasses both the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden in Hackney and Walpole Park in Ealing, ... by AJ Climate Champions

44 min listen

Barnabas Calder revisits architectural history through the lens of energy and climate: 10. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. Barnabas Calder charts the course of architectural history from hunter gatherers’ earliest mud and bone huts through coal-powered industrial Liverpool all the way to today’s search for regenerative design in ... by AJ Climate Champions

41 min listen

The 21st-century village: Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross on VeloCity: Ep 14. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. Architect Sarah Featherstone and planner Jennifer Ross, both members of the all-female VeloCity team, describe their 21st-century strategy for the English countryside: less cars, more bikes and new housing... by AJ Climate Champions

37 min listen

Thamesmead Waterfront and Home of 2030, two competitions wins where ‘landscape is the glue’: 12. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. Continuing its focus on landscape, Climate Champions turns its attention to two recent high-profile competitions where green and blue infrastructure promise to drive the design. First up is Thamesmead Waterfr... by AJ Climate Champions

39 min listen

COP26 pop-up activism and Glasgow’s new climate resilient public realm: Ep 16. Continuing its focus on the international climate conference, AJ Climate Champions speaks to Becca Thomas of New Practice about activating a site just outside the COP26 secure zone as a destination for protesters, and Stephen O’Malley of Civic Eng... by AJ Climate Champions

35 min listen

Rewilding expert Isabella Tree on why a 3,500-home development must be stopped: Ep 13. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. In our continuing series on landscape and the biodiversity crisis, we speak to rewilding pioneer Isabella Tree of the Knepp Estate in West Sussex, hailed as ‘one of the most exciting wildlife conservation ... by AJ Climate Champions

46 min listen

Duncan Baker-Brown on mining the Anthropocene: Episode 18. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. Architect and academic Duncan Baker-Brown shares the latest developments in material reuse, including his proposal for a pavilion at Glyndebourne Opera, sourced from materials on the Glyndebourne esta... by AJ Climate Champions

33 min listen

Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum on why the climate crisis is not a north-south problem: Episode 24. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. In this episode, Soane Medal (2021) winner Tabassum describes her approach as distilling the essence of vernacular buildings into contemporary architecture Working on the front line of climate change ... by AJ Climate Champions

44 min listen

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Bob Prewett explains why Passivhaus is often too much for heritage buildings: Episide 30. Retrofit expert Bob Prewett describes how a client’s brief for an ‘extreme retrofit’ in 2008 gave him ‘something bigger than architecture to think about’. Divided between London and Wells, the ten-strong Prewett Bizley Architects has a portfo... by AJ Climate Champions

34 min listen

Balancing heritage and climate urgency in listed buildings: Episode 37. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. 5th Studio co-founder Oliver Smith shares his radical approach to upgrading listed buildings. He talks about the practice’s radical retrofit of New Court at Trinity College, Cambridge. Completed in 20... by AJ Climate Champions

39 min listen

How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch: Episode 22. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. New year, new horizons: Climate Champions is going abroad in search of fresh approaches to ecological architecture. This week we continue talking to French architect and natural materials expert Domin... by AJ Climate Champions

43 min listen

COP26: Glasgow‘s plans for carbon neutrality by 2030 + ACAN‘s COP26 fringe activism: Episode 17. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. In this episode, we speak to Glasgow City Council architect Paola Pasino about her work with Danish architect Jan Gehl to create the framework for much that is happening in Glasgow today. Our second g... by AJ Climate Champions

28 min listen

Justin McGuirk on the Design Museum’s Waste Age exhibition and Kat Scott on the Architects Declare Practice Guide: Episode 20. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. As 2021 crawls to a close, Hattie Hartman converses with Design Museum chief curator Justin McGuirk about the exhibition Waste Age: What Can Design Do, on show until 22 February. And if you’re still w... by AJ Climate Champions

46 min listen

Editional Studio on persuading domestic clients to build less and retrofit more: Episide 31. The Manchester-based Jo Sharples and Jack Richards of Editional Studio share top tips from Decarbonise Your House Now!, a timely domestic retrofit guide they have put together for clients and architects. Each recommended retrofit measure is a... by AJ Climate Champions

46 min listen

ACAN founding member Sara Edmonds on ramping up domestic retrofit: Episode 29. We speak to architect and ACAN (Architects Climate Action Network) steering group coordinator Sara Edmonds who is jumpstarting widespread conversations around domestic retrofit. Reaching beyond the bounds of architecture, Studio seARCH co-fou... by AJ Climate Champions

40 min listen

Danish architect Lone Feifer on ‘absolute’ sustainability: Episode 33. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. Velux director of sustainable buildings Lone Feifer explains why ‘relative’ sustainability, improvement on previous standards, is no longer good enough. ‘One planet means one carbon budget with a fixe... by AJ Climate Champions

40 min listen

Lessons from AHMM’s Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School building performance study: Episode 27. We continue our focus on building performance; AHMM sustainability lead Craig Robertson shares important lessons from a building performance study of 2015 Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School in southwest London. It is still much too rare ... by AJ Climate Champions

42 min listen

John Christophers on his zero carbon home, which generates a 40% energy surplus: Episode 28. Architect John Christophers shares lessons from a decade of monitoring his own home which generates 40 per cent more energy than it uses. We continue our focus on building performance and explore what one can glean from monitoring a small pro... by AJ Climate Champions

49 min listen

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Sofie Pelsmakers: 'Sustainable architecture is "architecture on steroids" – it needs to perform'

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