2024-12-22T01:12:33-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149975285/ornament-and-extinction-in-the-nuclear-era Nicholas Korody 2016-10-26T13:01:00-04:00 >2016-11-07T00:06:13-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/sw/swl46jji6sdd9shr.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/112035318/archinect-s-lexicon-anthropocene" target="_blank">Anthropocene</a> is a contested name for "the era of geological time during which human activity is considered to be the dominant influence on the environment, climate, and ecology of the earth." As the fourth installment of the recurring&nbsp;<em><a href="http://archinect.com/features/tag/506696/anthropocene" target="_blank">Architecture of the Anthropocene</a>&nbsp;</em>series,<em>&nbsp;</em>this piece looks at a design problem that is larger, and perhaps more important, than any other imaginable.</p>