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English: It’s Simple: Histories of Architecture and/for the Environment is an afternoon conference at Columbia GSAPP co-organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and the Society of Fellows / Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.

Some profit from climate change, but many more suffer its consequences. It’s that simple; any history of anthropogenic planetary transformation is therefore also a history of inequality, injustice, and struggle.

Arguing that architecture needs an environmental history, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has organized, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the multidisciplinary, collaborative research project “Architecture and/for the Environment.” But what should this history look like? Around whose priorities should its objects of inquiry be defined and assembled? What truths should it seek?

Speakers include: Introductions by Reinhold Martin, Columbia University, and Mirko Zardini, CCA Daniel Barber ’10 Ph.D. Arch, University of Pennsylvania Aleksandr Bierig, Harvard University Nerea Calvillo ’02 MSAAD, Warwick University Jiat-Hwee Chang, National University of Singapore Isabelle Doucet, Manchester University Hannah le Roux, University of the Witwatersrand Kiel Moe, McGill University Paulo Tavares, Universidade de Brasília Response by Meredith TenHoor, Pratt Institute

Panel moderated by Meredith TenHoor and Kim Förster, CCA