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Architecture and Extreme Environments: David Garcia & Kristoffer Weiss

Our species' ability to adapt will determine our future. How does site specificity play in?

January 15, 2023
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Listen to a conversation between architect David Garcia and publisher Kristoffer Weiss who are currently working on a book on the architecture of extreme environments and Garcia's architectural practice and approach to teaching his architecture students at The Danish Royal Academy. Together they are addressing extreme contexts, global environmental challenges, and future forms of living.

Participants:

Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss, CEO, Danish Architectural Press
David Garcia, partner in MAP Architects and associate professor at the master programme 'Architecture and Extreme Environments' at The Royal Academy

Producer:

Lasse Soll Sunde

The podcast was recorded during Copenhagen Architecture Festival x Sense of Place in 2022. The events was part of the exhibition and talk series 'New Methods for Big Challenges: Architecture and Extreme Environments' addressing the extreme as a living condition and a design parameter.

The event is part of a collaboration with Art Hub Copenhagen on art and architecture and is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and the Louis Hansen Foundation.

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