Eugene Meehan, The Quality of Federal Policymaking: Programmed Failure in Public Housing (Columbia: University of Missouri Press), 112.
Katharine G. Bristol, “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth,” Journal of Architectural Education 44, no. 3 (May 1991): 163-171.
United Nations Environment Programme, 2020 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero-emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector (Nairobi, 2020), 48, ➝.
United Nations Environment Programme, 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector (Nairobi, 2022), 72, ➝.
Barnabas Calder, Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (London: Pelican Books, 2022), xi.
United Nations Environment Programme, 2022 Global Status Report, 48.
For example, Architects Declare UK, ➝.
Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “disassembling, n.,” July 2023.
William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (New York: North Point Press, 2002), 92-117.
McDonough and Braungart, Cradle to Cradle, 103-115.
Elizabeth Kolbert, “A Trillion Little Pieces: How Plastics Are Poisoning Us,” The New Yorker, July 3, 2023, 24-27.
Mark Miodownik, “Imaginative” in Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (London: Penguin, 2014), 125 – 159.
Stephen, Buranyi, “‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world,” The Guardian, September 28, 2023, ➝.
Ed van Hinte, Césare Peeren and Jan Jongert, Superuse: Constructing new architecture by shortcutting material flows (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2007), 14.
“Oogstkaart; De urban mining potentie van NL (Harvest Map. The urban mining potential of NL),” ➝.
Superuse Studios, “Buitenplaats Brienenoord,” ➝.
Arquivo, ➝.
Damian Carrington, “$10bn of precious metals dumped each year in electronic waste, says UN,” The Guardian, July 2, 2020, ➝.
Brian Merchant, “Apple has fought the right to repair devices for years. Why did it just make a U-turn?,” Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2023, ➝.
Benchmark, Made WELL Sustainability Report 2023 (Hungerford, 2023), 38-40, ➝.
Tim Nelson, “IKEA Wants You to Take Apart Its Furniture,” Architectural Digest, February 25, 2021, ➝.
Thomas Rau and Sabine Oberhuber, Material Matters: Developing Business for a Circular Economy (London: Routledge, 2022).
Isabella Kaminski, “Material passports: finding value in rubble,” Architects’ Journal, August 8, 2019, ➝.
Sandra Piesik, ed., Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2017).
Jean Dethier, “Inhabiting the earth: a new history of raw earth architecture,” Architectural Review, January 31, 2020, ➝.
Julia Watson, “Introduction. A Mythology of Technology,” in Lo-TEK, Design by Radical Indigenism (Cologne: Taschen, 2019), 16 – 27.
Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh, “Vision Statement,” ➝.
Translating such thinking to urban educational contexts is also gathering momentum. For example, at the GSAPP Natural Building Materials Lab at Columbia University in New York City, architectural researcher Lola Ben-Alon is leading a new program dedicated to experimenting with natural clays and new robotic manufacturing technologies. Drawing on a range of local clays, students experiment with recipes for non-toxic materials and investigate the potential of computer-aided design meeting century-old earth building practices.
Malaika Byng, “Magasin Électrique opens in Arles as the home of material pioneer Atelier Luma,” Wallpaper, May 30, 2023, ➝.