Edited by Derk Loorbach, Véronique Patteeuw, Saskia van Stein, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Peter Veenstra in collaboration with Internationale Architectuur Biënnale Rotterdam (IABR)

The history of climate change and the history of architecture are connected in many ways: while architects contributed to building the fossil fuel-driven world that has led to the current ecological collapse, they also explored and developed various alternatives to mitigate the effects of global warming. Using time as a conceptual lens, this book bridges the past, present, and future in new ways, leading to an architecture of climate change. It’s About Time - The Architecture of Climate Change presents historical and contemporary projects – from solar houses to autonomous structures and from earth buildings to green utopias – along with over 45 key moments in the history of environmental awareness. Applying transition research, the book conceptualises the present as the moment in which awareness, urgency, and opportunity converge to point toward radically sustainable futures.