Changing Paradigms: Materials for a World Not Yet Built
Build More with Less: How to Create the Future without Destroying the World
– Werner Sobek
Cultivated Building Materials: The Fourth Industrial Revolution?
– Dirk Hebel & Felix Heisel
Mushroom Materials Named under the Sun
– Phil Ross
Reuse and Recycling: Materializing a Circular Construction
– Felix Heisel
Reuse Economy
– Maarten Gielen
Paradigm Shift: The City of 1,000 Tanks, Chennai
– Eva Pfannes
Shifting the Flows, Pulling the Strings: Stocks, Flows, and Their Dynamics
Beyond Circularity
– Marilyne Andersen & Guillaume Habert
How the Circular Economy Can Lead to Carbon Neutrality
– Serge Salat
Enhancing Livability through Resource Efficiency: An Urban Metabolism Study in Cairo
– Heba Allah Essam E Khalil
Toward Urban Dematerialization: Governance for the Urban Commons
– Mark Swilling
How Much Does Your Building (or Its Corresponding Infrastructure) Weigh?
– Stefanie Weidner
Cities as Ecosystems and Buildings as Living Organisms
– Christoph Küffer
From Manual to Digital and Vice Versa: Digitization, Labor, and Construction
Imposing Challenges, Disruptive Changes: Rethinking the Floor Slab
– Philippe Block, Cristián Calvo Barentin, Francesco Ranaudo & Noelle Paulson
Pizza and Dirt in Uganda: A Student-Led Project Proves the Viability of Rammed-Earth Construction
– Achilles Ahimbisibwe
Building Climate: From Mechanical to Material
– Arno Schlueter
Designing for Natural Ventilation: Climate, Architecture, System
– Alpha Yacob Arsano
Rebuilding after Disaster: Children’s Recreational Center in Juchitán, Oaxaca
– Loreta Castro Reguera
KnitCrete: Building in Concrete with a Stay-in-Place Knitted Fabric Formwork
– Mariana Popescu, Matthias Rippmann, Tom Van Mele & Philippe Block
Catch-22: Material Needs versus Material Impact
MaGIC: Marginal Gains in Construction
– John Orr
From India: Three Lessons in Sustainable Construction
– Soumen Maity
Cement and Concrete Materials Science and Engineering Education in Africa: Opportunities for Development
– Yunus Ballim
Concrete as a Socio-technical Process
– Elise Berodier
Urbanism and the Technosphere
– Albert Pope
Building to Cool the Climate: The New Carbon Architecture
– Bruce King
Epilogue: Standing on a Thin Arch: Incremental versus Radical Change – Simon Upton
A Collection of Building Components and Materials – Compiled by Something Fantastic