Embodied Carbon and the Aesthetics of an Ecological Age

2021-04-06T08:57:00-04:00

Modernism was said to have died in 1972 with the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing development. Well, many events since seem to contradict that declaration, one of which came as recently as last month with the announcement that the French architects Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal have been awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize. The committee brief states the two’s practice "renews the legacy of modernism." But this must be a reformed modernism, not the same movement that celebrated such starkness, such overdetermined streetscapes, and facades of mid-twentieth-century design. In fact, the entire tabula rasa methodology has yielded to a strategy today that is more gentle, one that emphasizes context and historical juxtaposition.

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Embodied Carbon and the Aesthetics of an Ecological Age