Building for Change: The Architecture of Reuse

Join us for the book launch of Building for Change: The Architecture of Reuse by Ruth Lang

How might the practice of architecture adapt in a time of climate emergency and dwindling resources? Exploring a series of projects from across the world, Building for Change advocates for how architectural reuse can be employed at different scales, demonstrating how we might reuse materials, buildings, and sites, and to design for future adaptation and deconstruction. Looking beyond the imagery of finished projects to explore the process by which carbon-saving strategies are delivered, Building for Change positions opportunities for reuse not as a constriction or constraint, but as offering rich provocation for architectural innovation.

Ruth Lang is an architect and senior lecturer in professional practice at the Royal College of Art and the London School of Architecture. As lead researcher in the Design Museum’s Future Observatory, she is exploring the hurdles to adopting low embodied carbon construction in the housebuilding sector, and identifying ways in which these can be overcome by using the Design Museum as a springboard for innovative practice.

Head of the AA Landscape Urbanism Programme Alfredo Ramirez will introduce Ruth Lang at an event at the AA Bookshop to celebrate the launch of this new publication over refreshments.

The book will be sold at a special price of £35 (RRP £40)