The opening bell of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly started Tuesday with a warning from Secretary-General António Guterres, “I am here to sound the alarm: The world must wake up. We are on ...

We need political solutions to climate emergencies, not design solutions. Ad Policy A person pushes a barricade floating on a flooded street amid a coastal storm on September 29, 2023, in the Flatbush ...

As New York City rebuilds in the aftermath of a long pandemic year, Pratt students are partnering in the local Brooklyn community and beyond to support a better, more equitable future with innovative ...

Explore climate-responsive architecture that integrates ecology, culture, and technology for resilient urban spaces in 2025.

Nicole Ponce, a senior architecture student at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), visited a freshwater lake in the Netherlands as part of a class last summer. Her assignment was to envision ...

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"Back Bay Bertha Saves Boston" By William Rawn Associates. (Courtesy Maia Erslev) What happens when you give heaps of sugar to a bunch of architects (and a few civilians) and ask them to solve climate ...

From 1990 to 2010, Southeast Asia was the fastest growing carbon emitter in the world, according to the Asia Development Bank. Although its historical share of global greenhouse gas emissions – ...

Hidden in the IPCC’s latest climate report is a solution to reducing carbon emissions that gets less attention than solar panels or electric cars: “choice architecture,” or behavioral design, that can ...

With the Paris Agreement completing 10 years in November 2025, countries have questioned many of its principles. The US has ...

In 1981, architects Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk broke ground on the vacation town of Seaside, Fla. Seaside was a planned community designed to cut through the (then-literal) smog of ...