Architecture is Climate
Christina Serifi (MOULD)
Thursday 26.3, 11.00
Book Presentation + Lecture
Online
Architecture is Climate reimagines the very foundations of architecture in an age of crises. Rejecting outdated paradigms of endless linear growth, technocratic fixes, and the separation of humans from nature, the project and the book argues that architecture must be fundamentally rethought—not as the design of objects, but as a practice entangled with climate, politics, history, and social justice. Through eight key themes—knowledge, economy, land, resources, infrastructure, work, policy, and culture—Architecture is Climate explores how climate breakdown reshapes every aspect of architectural thinking and doing. Drawing on diverse voices, and grounded examples from around the world, it offers not just a critique of the status quo but a vision of other possible architectures—and climates—already in the making.
Christina Serifi is an architect, researcher and co-founder of TiriLab an initiative exploring multicultural heritage, local technologies, and knowledges in rural northern Greece. She was previously Principal Researcher in Terreform, a New York Center for Advanced Urban Research, regarding indigenous knowledge, alternative educational models and self-sufficiency. Christina is also part of MOULD research collective. Their most recent project, Architecture is Climate, explores architecture's entanglement with ecological crisis. She is currently teaching and conducting research at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and the City at TU Braunschweig.
Within the framework of the course PELION CHŌRA: Dissecting and Reweaving a Mountain
By The Observatory of the Countryside
Tutor: Metaxia Markaki
For online attendance contact memarkaki@uth.gr