What architecture does for ecology

Editions 205, the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie and the ATE laboratory have published Ce que l'architecture fait à l'écologie.
This collective work is edited by Valéry Didelon, teacher-researcher at the ATE laboratory.

Summary of the book

As a counterpoint to the abundant existing literature on what ecology does to architecture, this book reverses the perspective and opens up a debate. The authors, both researchers and practitioners, examine the many ways in which those involved in the development of built spaces - architects, landscape architects, engineers, etc. - shape society's expectations in terms of the fight against climate change. - to shape society's expectations in the fight against climate change, resource depletion and the collapse of biodiversity. What architecture does to ecology shows that their practices and discourses determine the conditions of production of the built environment as much as they are determined by them. In this book, architecture is seen as one of the laboratories for inventing the techniques, aesthetics and, above all, ethics that can orient and guide collective action in the world to come.

Authors:
Lionel Devlieger, engineer-architect and historian
Julien Choppin, architect
Philippe Coignet and Alice Hallynck, architects
Marcos Colina, architect
Gaël Huitorel and Alexandre Morais, architects
Delphine Hyvrier, doctoral student and artist
Ivan Mazel, architect-urban planner and doctor of architecture,
and Marie Flécheux, Thierry Joffroy, Julien Nourdin, David Rodrigues-Soares, Yannick Sieffert
Victoria Mure-Ravaud, architect, researcher, teacher
Julie Neuwels, architect and PhD in the Art of Building and Urban Planning
Natalia Petkova, architect

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visual: cover of Ce que l'architecture fait à l'écologie, éditions 205, 2024