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StudioWolff Unveils Design Strategies to Prosper Humankind

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rchitect/Author StudioWolff needs and expectations as they critically aggressive sustainable practices to their
delivers a new opus manifesto address the book’s thesis. work and achieve new modes of artistic
Ato the design and construction “Can architecture shift from its resource- expression. The emerging trends defining
domain for navigating the Anthropocene. consumptive nature to a productive, the next few decades support a long-
An Architect’s Journey - Mastering regenerative project? One that supports range forecast of unlimited opportunity
Future Trends in the Anthropocene is a urban agriculture and reforestation, mixed with turbulence, uncertainty, and
journey into the future of architecture makes potable water, produces net positive peril. To succeed, AEC professionals must
and mastering the Anthropocene’s renewable energy, achieves low embodied strive for leadership positions, contradict
dangerous forces. The book demonstrates carbon, and repurposes waste streams into the status quo, expand conventional
how architects, engineers, and building usable materials. While allowing unlimited thinking, and behave unconventionally.
professionals can lead the way to opportunities to develop new architectural Architects especially must abandon
overcome climate change and the forms and features that increase human exclusive theories, innovate from a
related perils of the Anthropocene by and environmental performance without framework of multiple perspectives, and
mastering twenty six selected future sacrificing artistic expression and creative skillfully navigate the consequences of
trends in the design domain. Captivating experimentation?” difficult choices and actions through
narratives show how architects can shift An Architect’s Journey provides new informed, collaborative, integrative, and
their emphasis from aesthetic object- tools, methods, and strategies necessary to fully diversified practices to meet society’s
making to meaningful and extraordinary make architecture vitally more significant future expectations—all foretold by An
achievement by understanding society’s as it instructs readers to apply more Architect’s Journey.

Book cover design by StudioWolff.
Photo credit: StudioWolff.

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