Launch It's About Time. The Architecture of Climate Change in Cité de l’Architecture, Paris

It's About Time. Photo: Sabine van der Vooren

26 september 2024

Join us for the launch of It’s About Time at Cité de l’Architecture in Paris on September 26. This groundbreaking book delves into the intersection of climate action and architectural design, showcasing the profound connection between the history of climate change and the evolution of architecture. A talk between curator Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou and authors Véronique Patteeuw and Léa-Catherine Szacka on the book’s perspective of time and architecture.

Authors: Derk Loorbach, Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Peter Veenstra.

The history of climate change and the history of architecture are connected in many ways. This book intertwines climate action and architectural design through time. It explores architectural experimentation in the past, depicts the present moment of transition and offers hopeful glimpses of the future.

It’s About Time reveals time as a crucial but overlooked aspect in designing sustainable futures. Bridging past, present and future, the book presents historical and contemporary projects such as solar houses, autonomous structures and earth buildings, along with over 45 key moments in environmental awareness history. Among them the first Earth Day, the UN conference in Stockholm, Eco-science fiction movies and the Chernobyl disaster, but also the Paris Agreements and the European Green Deal. Serving as both a handbook and a source of inspiration, it targets architects, educators, students and everyone involved in shaping better futures. Urgent in its message, it claims that the momentum to realize change has arrived, and that the field of architecture can play an important role in the transitions ahead.

The spoken language is English and French.

The booklaunch is part of the program of Temps Contretemps.