ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that architecture is broken. It discusses the contemporary urgencies such as climate change and the depletion of natural resources caused by the production of the built environment. In his 2018 article “Reweaving Webs of Relationships,” Pete Buchanan vividly describes our current entrapment between the great challenges we face and our inability to react, using the “jumping rabbit in front of a car” metaphor. Raworth further identifies in Rostow’s model the rational economic man; the individual who made decisions on rational analysis and acted out of his own rational self-interest. In May 2000, Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer published an article in the IGBP Newsletter where they claimed that the impact of human activities upon the earth and atmosphere were reason enough to rename the geological epoch we are currently living in from Holocene to Anthropocene, marking humans’ dominance on the planet.
