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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Barnabas Calder revisits architectural history through the lens of energy

In the latest AJ Climate Champions podcast, Barnabas Calder charts the course of architectural history from hunter gatherers’ earliest mud and bone huts

What does the climate crisis mean for buildings – great and small?

  FOR most of us, buildings are functional. We live, work and store things in them. They are as much a part of us as the nest is a part of a community of termites. Were this all there was to say about buildings, architectural historian Barnabas Calder might have found his book easier to write. He is asking “how humanity’s access to energy has shaped the world’s buildings through history”. Had his account remained so straightforward, we might have ended up with an eye-opening mathematical description of the increased energy available (derived from wood, charcoal and straw, then from coal and then from oil) and how it transformed and now, through global warming, threatens our civilisation.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley climate, energy news roundup: May 30

The excerpt of the Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending May 30.

Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency review – how energy shaped the way we built the world

Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency review – how energy shaped the way we built the world Rowan Moore © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images Consider the Georgian terrace, now a widely admired model of traditional city-building. Its most important material was not those of which it was ostensibly made, but coal: coal fired the kilns that made the bricks and the lime for the mortar; it helped make the glass for the large windows; it smelted and melted the iron for the railings and nails. It was burned in the fireplaces whose serried chimneys rose above the roofline, and was stored in the coal holes beneath the pavement, which were studded with the circular metal plates through which the fuel was poured.