Confronting Carbon Form

FIVE CONVERSATIONS ON ENERGY, POWER, SPACE, AND ARCHITECTURE.

Climate breakdown demands new ways of building, designing, and living together, yet architecture continues to work within the logic of carbon modernity. Confronting Carbon Form is an event series curated and moderated by Stanley Cho, Elisa Iturbe, and Alican Taylan that builds on the themes of Log 47: Overcoming Carbon Form. The series brings together architects, historians, theorists, and scholars to confront the spatial expression of our fossil fuel paradigm – carbon form – in order to find a new way forward.

Part 5: The Unknown

January 15, 2022

In this final event in the Confronting Carbon Form series, participants from the previous events collectively picked up loose threads, triangulated across their different topics, and attempted to create a clearer picture of what carbon form is and what it means to confront it.

Sofia Pia Belenky, architect at Space Caviar
Cara New Daggett, assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech
Joseph Grima, architect and founder of Space Caviar
Keith Krumwiede, dean of architecture, California College of the Arts
Francesco Marullo, assistant professor at University of Illinois Chicago
Louise Mozingo, chair and professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley
Albert Pope, architect and Gus Sessions Wortham professor of architecture, Rice University
Matthew Soules, architect and associate professor of architecture, University of British Columbia
Brittany Utting, architect and assistant professor of architecture at Rice University
Lizzie Yarina, research fellow at MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism

Part 4: The Building

December 1, 2021

Architects Francesco Marullo, Louise Mozingo, and Brittany Utting discussed some of the building typologies of carbon form – from the factory to the hospital and the corporate headquarters.

Part 3: The Suburb

November 11, 2021

Matthew Soules, author of Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra-Thin, and Keith Krumwiede, author of Atlas of Another America, discussed suburban domesticity, the home as a financial instrument, and, of course, carbon form.

Part 2: The City

October 27, 2021

Log 47 contributors, architect Albert Pope and researcher Lizzie Yarina, discussed carbon form at the urban scale and presented case studies, from Texas to Vietnam, of the relationship between energy and form.

Part 1: The Confrontation

October 6, 2021

Architects Sofia Pia Belenky and Joseph Grima of Space Caviar, political scientist Cara Daggett, and geographer Andreas Malm discussed energy, power, space, and architecture.