{"id":104912,"date":"2023-04-21T21:30:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?post_type=metro_viewpoint&#038;p=104912"},"modified":"2023-04-21T21:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T21:30:47","slug":"six-essential-articles-for-earth-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"metro_viewpoint","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/six-essential-articles-for-earth-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Essential Articles for  Earth Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1250\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/12044-P-029_IW-exterior-dusk-5484_edit.jpg\" alt=\"exterior of building with lights on over a grassy knoll\" class=\"wp-image-102104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/12044-P-029_IW-exterior-dusk-5484_edit.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/12044-P-029_IW-exterior-dusk-5484_edit-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/12044-P-029_IW-exterior-dusk-5484_edit-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/12044-P-029_IW-exterior-dusk-5484_edit-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/12044-P-029_IW-exterior-dusk-5484_edit-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">COURTESY FXCOLLABORATIVE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">April 21, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"size-large wp-block-heading\">Six Essential Articles for  Earth Day 2023<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">Get inspired for Earth Day 2023 with deep dives into the big ideas shaping sustainable design: from a renaissance in local architecture to scalable climate solutions and buildings that are safer for birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=\"\/tag\/michelle-yee\">Michelle Yee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fsix-essential-articles-for-earth-day-2023%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" 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href=\"mailto:?body=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fsix-essential-articles-for-earth-day-2023%2F&#038;subject=Six+Essential+Articles+for++Earth+Day+2023\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M12 12.713l-11.985-9.713h23.97l-11.985 9.713zm0 2.574l-12-9.725v15.438h24v-15.438l-12 9.725z\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column empty-header-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Since Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970, April 22 has been an opportunity to celebrate the environmental movement&#8217;s gains\u2014like the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier in that first year\u2014and raise awareness about problems yet to be addressed. Architects&#8217; experiments with building technologies that minimize environmental impact, conserve energy and water, and reduce carbon emissions go back even farther. You can look as far back as MIT engineer Maria Telkes and architect Eleanor Raymond\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/energyhistory.yale.edu\/library-item\/eleanor-raymond-and-maria-telkes-dover-sun-house-dover-massachusetts-1948\">Dover Sun House (1948)<\/a> for an example of one such path-breaking construction. One might assume by the time we reached Earth Day 2023, we&#8217;d have sustainable design all figured out. Alas, as the field&#8217;s technological prowess has increased, so too has the scale of the problem\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/plastic-vitra-design-museum\/\">plastic pollution<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/the-drawdown-review\/\">climate collapse<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/profiles\/a-new-orleans-planner-builds-community-as-an-anti-highway-activist\/\">environmental racism<\/a> were a long way off back then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Perhaps the green design movement&#8217;s greatest challenge, though, remains the same: Inertia, the hesitancy on the part of clients, governments, and others to commit to radical action. As Allison Arieff wrote in her<a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/earth-day-50\/\"> 2020 article for <em>Metropolis<\/em><\/a> on the occasion of Earth Day&#8217;s 50th anniversary, \u201cSustainability still very much feels like a \u2018nice to have\u2019 in far too many projects.\u201d Three years later, is it possible that signs of a shift are beginning to appear? Firms around the country have committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aia.org\/pages\/6464938-the-aia-2030-commitment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">designing carbon neutral by 2030 <\/a>and president Joe Biden announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/21\/climate\/biden-environmental-justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House office of Environmental Justice<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Though Earth Day still falls on April 22, the environmental design movement of today is a far cry from that of 1970. Today, sustainability is more inclusive of a diversity of perspectives and experiences, more data driven, and more aware of the importance of projects rooted in the local scale. The articles below delve into some of the big ideas and themes\u2014everything to bird-friendly design to a notion of planetary sanctuary\u2014that are guiding today&#8217;s pioneers of sustainable design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/quarantine-refugia-covid-19\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DE_Cosmorama_Pacific-Cemetery_Page_1.jpg\" alt=\"black-and-white photo of  the planets and their interactions, for Earth Day\" class=\"wp-image-29093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DE_Cosmorama_Pacific-Cemetery_Page_1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DE_Cosmorama_Pacific-Cemetery_Page_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DE_Cosmorama_Pacific-Cemetery_Page_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DE_Cosmorama_Pacific-Cemetery_Page_1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DE_Cosmorama_Pacific-Cemetery_Page_1-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">COURTESY DESIGN EARTH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/quarantine-refugia-covid-19\/\">Can Quarantine Propel Us Toward Planetary Sanctuary?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Critic Mimi Zeiger reflects on refugia and the regenerative potential of crisis in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">By: Mimi Zeiger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">I can\u2019t stop thinking about&nbsp;<em>refugia<\/em>. In the years, months, and days before the COVID-19 pandemic, the term was confined to the literature and philosophy of climate crisis, referring to pockets of life that through geographic isolation or species resilience manage to hang on in spite of the environmental forces against them. Think of clusters of Pacific Northwest barnacles nestled high on coastal outcroppings to avoid falling prey to sea snails. Or old-growth forests insulated from rising temperatures in cool mountain valleys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">As self-quarantine set in spring of 2020, the word refugia, at least for me, expanded in definition from specific ecological condition to conceptual touchstone\u2014a necessary leap to metaphor when faced with planetary crisis. The magnitude of this pandemic falls outside human comprehension, but for the luckiest of us, refuge is manageable: a place of relative safety, of sourdough starters and online Jazzercise classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/quarantine-refugia-covid-19\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/can-local-architecture-help-cure-the-ills-of-globalism\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-15-Startup-Lions-Campus-1536x1154-1-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"two people walking on concrete next to a tan building on a college campus\" class=\"wp-image-104914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-15-Startup-Lions-Campus-1536x1154-1-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-15-Startup-Lions-Campus-1536x1154-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-15-Startup-Lions-Campus-1536x1154-1-768x577.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">IMAGE \u00a9 KINAN DEEB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/can-local-architecture-help-cure-the-ills-of-globalism\/\">Can Local Architecture Help Cure the Ills of Globalism?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">As we reckon with the failures and homogeneity of global architecture, it\u2019s time to explore an approach better suited to place, and to a new age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">By: Li Wen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The global pause of the COVID pandemic has provided an opportunity to assess present-day globalism, and the architecture that has emerged alongside it. Stemming back to the broad expansion of free trade in the 90s at the end of the Cold War, globalism\u2019s cultural promise was simple and aspirational: integrating markets globally would increase the interaction between and learning of different cultures.&nbsp;By normalizing such experiences in our daily lives, we would become global citizens liberated from our previous prejudices\u2013all well-intentioned objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Architecture, being an embodiment of the socio-economic systems of its production, followed suit: Just as&nbsp;labor&nbsp;was shipped offshore, so was \u201cprogressive\u201d architecture, serving as a propaganda tool for the global \u201carrival\u201d of an emerging economy\u2014e.g., China,&nbsp;UAE, etc.&nbsp;The starchitect<em>&nbsp;<\/em>arose during this period as a prime delivery system; their architectural spectacles juicing their surrounding economies to become destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-2 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/can-local-architecture-help-cure-the-ills-of-globalism\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/can-architects-build-without-killing-birds\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Birds_MainFeature-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"illustrated image of three colorful birds standing next to each other, for Earth Day\" class=\"wp-image-102132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Birds_MainFeature-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Birds_MainFeature-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Birds_MainFeature-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bird Illustrations: Rocketjack.co.uk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/can-architects-build-without-killing-birds\/\">Can Architects Build without Killing Birds?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Despite laws to reduce bird-window strikes, building-related practices continue to decimate songbirds. Can that trend be reversed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">By: Kelly Beamon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Architecture is overdue for a reckoning with birds, owing largely to their fatal collisions with windows, but also to a host of other threats inherent in a world built mainly for humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The volume of birds colliding with glass specifically has reached a level impossible to ignore, with up to a billion deadly incidents a year across North America, and roughly 230,000 in New York City alone, according to New York City Audubon. In 2021, a volunteer with that nonprofit\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nycaudubon.org\/our-work\/conservation\/project-safe-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project Safe Flight<\/a>&nbsp;program recorded nearly 300 birds lying dead or dying on the pavement in a single morning at Manhattan\u2019s World Trade Center (WTC) complex\u2014a place where previously 30 daily casualties was shocking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">But while the villainy of too much glass warrants attention as an isolated flaw (it\u2019s invisible to birds), it\u2019s also a sign of a broader problem: that we\u2019ve been building birds out of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/can-architects-build-without-killing-birds\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/the-drawdown-review\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ronaldo-lourenco-VYhlwN9zw0-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"five wind turbines against a dusty sepia-toned beach, for Earth Day\" class=\"wp-image-84581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ronaldo-lourenco-VYhlwN9zw0-unsplash.jpg 900w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ronaldo-lourenco-VYhlwN9zw0-unsplash-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ronaldo-lourenco-VYhlwN9zw0-unsplash-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">COURTESY RONALDO LOURENCO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/the-drawdown-review\/\">Low Cost, High Impact:&nbsp;<em>The Drawdown Review<\/em>&nbsp;Suggests That Architects Move Toward Scalable Climate Solutions<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Climate change expert Jesse M. Keenan analyzes <em>The Drawdown Review<\/em>\u2019s recommendations for architects and designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">By: Jesse M. Keenan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Architects and designers of the built environment are often conceptualized in popular culture as progressive change agents whose canvas of steel and glass brings light to the public realm. At least one global survey of the public\u2019s trust in various professions places architects in a top-ranked cohort that includes medical professionals and first responders. But in the United States, the architecture profession is surprisingly older and much less progressive than one might imagine. More than a third of the profession is over the age of 55, and more than a quarter of architects will retire before the end of the decade. Among professionals who voted during the 2016 presidential election, architects gave a very slight edge to Democrats, but their voting patterns were more closely aligned with Trump supporters than with the creative professionals who overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Clinton. These demographic attributes leave many wondering whether the seasoned leadership of the profession is up to the challenge of progressively guiding architecture into a new era of climate-conscious design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-4 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/the-drawdown-review\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/julia-watson-symbiocene-qa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5.-Refuge-for-Resurgence-Superflux-1536x1025-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"science room with long table, benches and many small models on the table\" class=\"wp-image-104915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5.-Refuge-for-Resurgence-Superflux-1536x1025-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5.-Refuge-for-Resurgence-Superflux-1536x1025-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5.-Refuge-for-Resurgence-Superflux-1536x1025-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Tim P. Whitby\/Tim P. Whitby\/Getty Images for Barbican Centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/julia-watson-symbiocene-qa\/\">Designer Julia Watson on Reaching the Age of the Symbiocene<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\"><em>Metropolis<\/em>&nbsp;asked the Australia-born, New York-based Watson to tell us more about what this future era holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">By Malaika Byng<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">In 2012, architect and designer Julia Watson embarked on a seven-year odyssey around the globe to explore how Indigenous communities have developed ingenious ways to design in symbiosis with the natural world. Her 2019 book,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/indigenous-technology-sustainable-future-lotek\/\">Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism<\/a><\/em>, spotlighted nature-based infrastructures that have been honed over millennia, from the Living Root Bridges of the Khasis people in India to the floating island homes of the Ma\u2019dan in Iraq, made from qasab reeds. As the creative world searches for planet-positive design solutions in the face of climate change, the book shows they have existed for centuries but have been overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">For a show at London\u2019s Barbican Centre\u2014called&nbsp;<em>Our Time On Earth<\/em>\u2014Watson teamed up with members of these two communities, as well as the Bali farmers famed for their Subak water irrigation system, to imagine what our cities might look like in 2040 if we incorporated technologies developed by Indigenous communities. She has worked with architect Smith Mordak and engineering firm&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/tag\/buro-happold\/\">Buro Happold<\/a>&nbsp;to create a series of architectural models for unspecified urban locations. The installation borrows its name from Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht\u2019s concept of the Symbiocene, the age that he hopes will follow the Anthropocene and will be characterized by harmonious interactions between humans and nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/julia-watson-symbiocene-qa\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/profiles\/yasmeen-lari-starchitect-turned-climate-activist\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4a_shelter_quer-1536x1152-1-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"Yasmeen Lari on ladder fixing up a home, for Earth Day\" class=\"wp-image-104916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4a_shelter_quer-1536x1152-1-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4a_shelter_quer-1536x1152-1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4a_shelter_quer-1536x1152-1-768x576.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">COURTESY YASMEEN LARI ARCHIVE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/profiles\/yasmeen-lari-starchitect-turned-climate-activist\/\">Yasmeen Lari: Starchitect Turned Climate Activist<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The first woman architect to open her own practice in Pakistan, Yasmeen Lari gained international recognition for her skyscrapers and concrete buildings before launching a low-carbon, self-build movement for climate refugees and the landless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">By: Petra Loho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cI think architects can no longer work for just the one percent, because that doesn\u2019t allow them to really serve humanity as well as they could,\u201d says Yasmeen Lari. Pointing out that serving humanity is just what architects are trained to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Strong words from a strong woman who, throughout her life, has been on the road less travelled. Naturally, it\u2019s been a long and rocky road for Pakistan\u2019s first female architect. She rose to prominence in the late 20th century, designing office towers and social housing for Pakistan\u2019s growing cities, until a series of natural disasters shifted her attention to architecture\u2019s role in the climate crisis. Since then, she\u2019s peeled away those luxury layers to return to the root of architecture\u2014leading a movement for the global poor to build zero-carbon buildings with traditional materials like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/projects\/we-need-to-integrate-everything-arturo-vittoris-warka-village-nears-completion-in-cameroon\/\">mud<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/fea_lime\/\">lime<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/profiles\/rael-san-fratello-3d-print-architecture-oakland\/\">clay<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/projects\/green-team-part-19-is-bamboo-for-you\/\">bamboo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-6 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/profiles\/yasmeen-lari-starchitect-turned-climate-activist\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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