Abundance not Capital

What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture.

Capital’s voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of “never enough.” The current realities of building involve extraction and exploitation, which, in turn, cause climate breakdown, environmental ruin, alienated labor conditions, and the destruction of local construction knowledge. But what if we could do architecture differently? What does…