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What’s Next?

AN checks in with Leers Weinzapfel Associates for updates on its mass timber projects

“Underpinning”

In an excerpt from Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures, Lindsey Wikstrom relays how storytelling shapes our environment

A Just Transition

The climate resilience workforce should include architects

Farmer’s Almanac

USDA rolls out 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map—revealing how agricultural areas change with global warming

Sliver Me Timbers!

TenBerke is designing a new mass timber student hub for Smith College

Outperforming the Status Quo

SGA’s mass timber lab reimagines research facilities and puts science on display

Thinking Like a Forest

AN’s Mass Timber digital issue is now available online

Set By Example

ASLA’s new, freely available guide charts a path for landscape architecture firms to achieve zero-carbon business operations

Metal Man

AN talks with Bill Zahner about metal, family-owned businesses, and sustainability

Beyond Sustainability

We can’t engineer our way out of the climate crisis

Straw, Wood, and Stone

How to Build a Low-Carbon Home is an accessible and instructive guide for home-building during the climate emergency

Architecture 2030 Is Not Enough

Carbon accounting will only take us so far: The data reveals that architecture’s next challenge is to do more with less.

Thinking Through LCAs

Decarbonization consultant William Beer shares his thoughts about efforts to reduce emissions from the manufacture of building materials

Man wearing a blue shirt looks above to the camera while standing on an installation of bedrock samples.
Sea Change

Carlos Irijalba uses recycled materials from climate resiliency projects for an installation along the East River

Ultraviole(n)t Exposure

Unpacking what it means to design safe shade

Looking Back to Move Forward

Each chapter of Material Health: Design Frontiers interrogates a material of everyday production

September 2023: Sustainability Focus Section

Mass Timber: It’s What’s for Dinner

The potentials and provocations of architecture’s favorite eco-material

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