Architecture and Climate Change: 20 Interviews on the Future of Building

by Sandra Hofmeister (editor)

Architecture and construction are at a turning point. They account for more than 40% of global CO2 emissions. Rising temperatures can only be reduced if there is a radical change in the field of construction throughout the world. However, how should we design our cities, buildings and living spaces so that we can get closer to the goal of decarbonisation? The book gives 20 architects and urban planners their say on the future of construction. Voices are heard from Mexico to Kenya – from Bangladesh to Switzerland. In the interviews experts give an account of their own experiences with climate-friendly construction as well as regional problems posed by rising CO2emissions. They explain pioneering projects and combine them with their personal desire and political ideals.

252 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published June 13, 2024

About the author

Sandra Hofmeister is an architecture and art critic, moderator and editor. She studied architecture, art history and Romance studies at the Technical and Free University of Berlin and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She completed her doctorate there in 2006 on the subject of ‘Fin de Siècle and Modernism’ (Meidenbauer-Verlag, Munich 2007). As an editor and author, she has published numerous books in German and English focussing on architecture and design. Her most recently published titles include ‘Architektur in Vorarlberg. Porträt einer regionalen Baukultur’ (edited by Verena Konrad and Sandra Hofmeister, Edition Detail 2024), “David Chipperfield Architects” (4th expanded edition, edited by Sandra Hofmeister, Edition Detail 2025) and “Architecture and Climate Change”, edited by Sandra Hofmeister, Edition Detail 2024). Her texts have appeared in German and English-language newspapers and magazines as well as on online platforms. Sandra Hofmeister accompanied the launch of the German Domus as editor-in-chief. From 2017 to 2025, as editor-in-chief of Detail, she was responsible for the international architecture magazine, the online programme and the book programme of Edition Detail. In 2025 she founded the book platform castello books. She works as a moderator and juror and also teaches, currently at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.