The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
The escalating climate emergency means construction must clean up its act without delay. A solid rule-of-thumb is to specify materials derived from plants, argues Joe Giddings
Make mine a plant-based building please
Book review: Architecture From Prehistory to Climate Emergency, by Barnabas Calder
ACAN’s Joe Giddings reviews Barnabas Calder’s ground-breaking new history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy
Why we need embodied carbon regulation now
Joe Giddings and Seb Laan Lomas explain why the UK government urgently needs to catch up with leading thinkers at home and abroad