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Green Reconstruction: A Curricular Toolkit for the Built Environment

Change is learned. On the streets and in the public sphere, imagination, knowledge, and know-how go hand in hand. At a time of mounting social and ecological turmoil, planning and designing a just, equitable built environment requires professional focus anchored in intellectual ambition. Rote allegiances to orthodoxy must reorient toward new realities. Professional education, in short, must be rethought. For the arts and sciences of the built environment, change therefore begins in the classroom, as a shared learning that rebuilds the imagination from the ground up: Green Reconstruction.

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On a purple background, white text reads: "GREEN RECONSTRUCTION, A Curricular Toolkit for the Built Environment"

Design by MTWTF

Unbroken Windows

Before windows are broken, they must first be designed as unbroken. Before neighbors are targeted, their neighborhoods must first be envisioned as property — rather than lives — needing protection. Though the prominence of policies stemming from the Broken Windows theory of policing policies has in many ways abated, the theory's material and imaginative force remains woven into society all around us.

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Held tight by a black frame, austere capital letters of a similar thickness to the frame itself spell out “Unbroken Windows” on a white background. The “o” in “Windows” is square, and filled with a glowing yellow light.

Design by Morcos Key

Public Service Announcements

Public service announcements (PSAs) borrow private networks for the purposes of public pedagogy. In a related spirit, the Buell Center has created two Green Reconstruction PSA campaigns, which are available to share in whole or in part.

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Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society

Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture announces, together with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the recipients of the Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.

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ACSA, "Architecture Climate Change and Society" GIF with thermal map graphics

Green Reconstruction: A Curricular Toolkit for the Built Environment

2021 - 2022

Unbroken Windows

2021 - 2025

Public Service Announcements

2020 - 2021

Green Reconstruction

2020 - 2021

#GreenStimulus and Beyond: A Resource

2020 - 2020

Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society

2019 - 2021

Public Works for a Green New Deal

2019 - 2019

Powerlines

2019 - 2021

Reimagining Rust Belt Infrastructure

2019 - 2021

Liquid Utility

2019 - 2019

Local Course Development

2019 - 2020

Green New Deal

2019 - 2020

Everyday Emergencies

2019 - 2020

The A&E System

2018 - 2021

The Right to Infrastructure

2018 - 2021

Architecture against Democracy

2018 - 2021

Paris Prize

2017 - 2021

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