{"product_id":"on-architecture-and-greenwashing-9783775756747","title":"On Architecture and Greenwashing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an industry that relies on extracted materials and an intense use of resources, isn't construction unsustainable by design?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pressure is increasing for the sector to diligently address the harm caused by the built environment, begging the question of whether real sustainability in architecture and planning is possible. As institutionalised and commodified greenwashing hollows out the term, how do architects and designers position their work beyond the inadequacy of a flattening universalistic understanding of sustainability?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat forms of practice allow for accountable and revolutionised construction modes? How can we critically engage with technology as an ambivalent tool in the service of green capitalism?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of a forthcoming series by RIOT-Research and Innovation On Territory, a laboratory within the Institute of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), \u003cem\u003eOn Architecture and Greenwashing\u003c\/em\u003e presents a cross-section of positions on architecture and its political economies and explores ways to correct course in the face of a climate crisis of unprecedented magnitude—beyond greenwashing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431771160812,"sku":"9783775756747","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783775756747.jpg?v=1774557209","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/on-architecture-and-greenwashing-9783775756747","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}