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AJ Climate Champions: RIBA Climate Special with Simon Allford
The new RIBA president talks about how the institute can help architects combat climate change and his vision for a House of Architecture
Tag: Climate Champions
AJ Climate Champions podcast: VeloCity with Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross
Architect Sarah Featherstone and planner Jennifer Ross – both members of the all-female VeloCity team – describe their 21st-century strategy for the English countryside: fewer cars, more bikes and new housing in village clusters linked to rail stations
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Rewilding expert Isabella Tree
The conservationist and author explains why the proposed Buck Barn development – which goes before Horsham District Council this week – epitomises the controversy between the upcoming Environment Bill and the government’s intended planning reforms
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Thamesmead Waterfront and Home of 2030
Continuing its focus on landscape, AJ Climate Champions turns its attention to two recent high-profile competitions where green and blue infrastructure promise to drive the design
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Landscape architect Jo Gibbons on greening our cities
The founding partner of J & L Gibbons discusses why trees matter, urban forestry and how architects and landscape architects can work together to green our cities
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Barnabas Calder revisits architectural history through the lens of energy
‘Coal helped revolutionise architecture, but with the downside that it has the potential to wipe us off the planet’
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Guy Shrubsole on rewilding Britain and greening our cities
The AJ’s flagship podcast turns its focus on landscape and ecology, and how what we build relates to the natural world around us
AJ Climate Champions podcast – Steve Webb & Wilf Meynell: ‘We’re brainwashed into steel and concrete mode’
In this third episode dedicated to retrofit, Steve Webb of Webb Yates Engineers explains how to persuade clients to use more timber and stone while Wilf Meynell shares Studio Bark’s approach to Victorian house extensions
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Harry Paticas on low-carbon retrofit of primary schools
Harry Paticas explains why he left architectural practice to focus on retrofitting schools, and how he educates schoolchildren on the climate emergency
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Owen Hatherley on Modernism + Will Hurst explains RetroFirst
In a bonus episode of the AJ’s podcast series, we talk to Owen Hatherley about the retrofitting of Modernist buildings and to the AJ’s Will Hurst about our RetroFirst campaign