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Something in the Air

By: Douglas Murphy

A new book on modern architecture and climate researches the passive cooling strategies that immediately preceded the age of air-conditioning. In the age of accelerating climate change, can we learn anything from them?

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For the climate crisis, one of the biggest challenges is urban life itself. So much of the energy that we produce through burning fossil fuels goes into the construction, maintenance, and operation of buildings, from the carbon-intensive industrial processes that make cement or steel to the power that keeps buildings and streets lit up and […]

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For the climate crisis, one of the biggest challenges is urban life itself. So much of the energy that we produce through burning fossil fuels goes into the construction, maintenance, and operation of buildings, from the carbon-intensive industrial processes that make cement or steel to the power that keeps buildings and streets lit up and […]

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For the climate crisis, one of the biggest challenges is urban life itself. So much of the energy that we produce through burning fossil fuels goes into the construction, maintenance, and operation of buildings, from the carbon-intensive industrial processes that make cement or steel to the power that keeps buildings and streets lit up and […]

For the climate crisis, one of the biggest challenges is urban life itself. So much of the energy that we produce through burning fossil fuels goes into the construction, maintenance, and operation of buildings, from the carbon-intensive industrial processes that make cement or steel to the power that keeps buildings and streets lit up and […]

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