Corporate Afterlife: On Climatic Artefacts

Harvard GSD

For decades, architecture has pursued performance through optimization: more efficient, more precise, more controlled. This model relies on complex systems operating under stable conditions. As climate uncertainty and resource scarcity transform the environments in which buildings operate, this paradigm reveals its limits. Buildings optimized for stability often prove the least capable of accommodating change.The studio proposes robustness as a new understanding of architectural performance.…