BEYOND THE LINE
IN THE AGE OF POLYCRISIS
Architecture no longer operates in isolated scenarios, but within what historian Adam Tooze* defines as a
Polycrisis
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*on the cover, photo: New York Magazine
…a condition in which global crises are so deeply interconnected that their combined impact is far more overwhelming than the sum of their individual parts.
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The Global Risks Report 2023 highlights how conflicts, inflation, energy and climate crises are nodes of a single network.
In this context
the construction industry has a monumental responsibility, since from now until 2060 humanity will build an additional
240.000.000.000 m²*
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An area the size of the United Kingdom
*source: Architecture 2030
The act of designing and building is no longer confined to the intervention lot.
The choice of a material implies:
extraction
exploitation of the workforce
transoceanic transport
emissions
…which affect territories that the designer might never see.
Every line drawn with a pencil triggers a global chain reaction.
Architecture is a node in a global network of crises and responsibilities, where the sum of the parts determines the stability or collapse of the system.
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