How Architecture is Contributing to the Increase of the Temperature of the World

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Over the past 60 years, architects and engineers have surrendered to industrial construction solutions, with buildings designed to be built faster and faster and at very low cost.

Over the past 60 years, architects and engineers have surrendered to industrial construction solutions, with buildings designed to be built faster and faster and at very low cost. As a more standardized and cheaper international approach to building emerged throughout the 20th century, many professionals abandoned the vernacular traditions of their ancestral cultures, which were developed over thousands of years, to fight the climatic extremes of different regions.

Uniformity x Heat

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Cite: Matoso, Marília. "How Architecture is Contributing to the Increase of the Temperature of the World" [Como a arquitetura ocidental vem aumentando o calor no mundo] 21 Jul 2022. ArchDaily. (Trans. Simões, Diogo) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/985172/how-architecture-is-contributing-to-the-increase-of-the-temperature-of-the-world> ISSN 0719-8884

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