AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘We start with a map of nearby materials and products’

By AJ Contributor 26 February 2025 414 Views

Material Cultures co-founder Summer Islam explains how a regional ‘materials matrix’ informs the design process

AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘Retrofit is seen as really alienating. We’re trying to blow that apart’

By AJ Contributor 12 February 2025 571 Views

Melissa Mean from community land trust WeCanMake explains how a community-led approach in Bristol is tackling the housing crisis

AJ Climate Champions podcast: Tara Gbolade – ‘We use an assessment chart to evaluate potential clients’

By AJ Contributor 29 January 2025 427 Views

Gbolade Design Studio’s Tara Gbolade shares insights from her new book, Changing the Game: How to be a sustainable and regenerative small practice

AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘Even a small practice can push the boundaries of reuse’

By AJ Contributor 11 December 2024 492 Views

Thom Brisco of Brisco Loran talks about Costa’s Barbers, a live-work shopfront which triumphed in the Project under £500,000 category at the AJ Architecture Awards last week

AJ Climate Champions podcast: IF_DO’s Sarah Castle

By AJ Contributor 27 November 2024 445 Views

IF_DO founder Sarah Castle explains that community engagement is not just asking people what they want but also what they can do

AJ Climate Champions podcast: Chipperfield’s MC Piccinelli on how retrofit can enhance creativity

By AJ Contributor 13 November 2024 634 Views

Piccinelli, associate director at Chipperfield’s and project lead on the LSE’s Firoz Lalji Global Hub, describes circularity as ‘a mind shift’ – it’s no longer the architect giving top-down direction

AJ Climate Champions podcast: Why earth is the ultimate circular material

By AJ Contributor 23 May 2024 679 Views

To achieve replication at scale, Nicolas Coeckelberghs of Brussels-based BC Materials favours compressed earth blocks over rammed earth

AJ Climate Champions podcast: Vinu Daniel on transforming mud and waste into architecture

By AJ Contributor 8 May 2024 460 Views

‘The idea is to propagate. I want to do airports, I want to build cities,’ says the founder of award-winning practice Wallmakers

AJ Climate Champions podcast: Carmody Groarke’s Sian Ricketts on making bricks from waste

By AJ Contributor 24 April 2024 576 Views

Carmody Groarke sustainability lead Sian Ricketts explains how architecture can adapt to the reality of finite resources and an abundance of waste

AJ Climate Champions podcast: AKTII’s David Watson on how to reduce the environmental impacts of brick

By AJ Contributor 11 April 2024 683 Views

Structural engineer David Watson describes the enduring appeal of brick and its underexploited superpower: reuse

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