or Architecture and the Arts of Sufficiency

Conférence de Daniel A Barber, professeur et directeur de l’UTS School of Architecture de Sydney

mardi 10 octobre 2023
à 13:00
Conférence
Leçon du mardi

The April 2022 report Mitigation of Climate Change from the IPCC offers a compelling lens through which to look back at the history of “sustainable” architecture and its focus on efficiency. In most regions, the “Technical Summary” indicates, “historical improvements in efficiency have been approximately matched by growth in floor area per capita.” Whereas efficiency is about continuous short-term marginal technological improvements, by contrast “sufficiency is about long-term actions driven by non-technological solutions, which consume less energy in absolute terms.” The challenge is to shift the discussion of architecture’s climate engagement away from efficiency and toward thinking about how buildings can be part of a broader transformation in demand management.

Daniel A. Barber est professeur et directeur de l'école d'architecture de l'Université de technologie de Sydney. Ses recherches et son enseignement portent sur l'histoire et l'avenir de l'engagement de l'architecture dans l'environnement. Son dernier ouvrage est Modern Architecture and Climate : Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton, 2020), après A House in the Sun : Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (Oxford, 2016) ; son article "After Comfort" (Log 47, 2019) a été traduit en quatre langues.

Conférence donnée dans le cadre du cycle de Leçons du mardi "Architecture & Environnement" coordonné par la commission Environnement et pédagogie de l’École : Luc Baboulet, Jean-François Blassel, Paul Bouet, Gwenaëlle D’Aboville, Julien Tanant, Pierre Alain Trévelo et Claire Vernhes.