About this Event
Rather than focusing on technical solutions to the ecological crisis, Josep Ricart considers what architects fundamentally do: design experiences. In this context, ecological strategies are not just tools for reducing environmental impact, but a way to create more sustainable ways of inhabiting buildings.
Josep argues that responding meaningfully to the climate crisis requires a radical deviation from the conventional approach. How might architecture challenge assumptions about how homes and social institutions are used? And how might new relationships between spaces allow buildings to accommodate more diverse and changing forms of use?
These questions extend to construction methods, standards of comfort and the role of the architect. Ricart considers how architecture might work with the natural behaviour of buildings to provide comfort, rather than relying primarily on mechanical systems to create controlled environments.
Radical Kindness ultimately calls for a continuous and critical revision of the decisions architects make throughout the design process.
With respondents Katerina Dionysopoulou (Bureau de Change) and Billy Mavropoulos (Bureau de Change), chaired by Níall McLaughlin (Bartlett).
This event is part of the at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
Registration is essential
Please note this event has limited capacity and operates on a first-come, first-served basis based on registrations. Doors close at 18:40.
Speaker biographry
Josep Ricart is an architect and co-founder of Harquitectes, the Barcelona-based architecture studio established in 2000 with David Lorente, Xavier Ros and Roger Tudó.
Harquitectes combines architectural practice with teaching, with its founders holding academic roles at institutions including the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ETH Zurich and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The studio has also been invited to teach and lecture at institutions including Porto Academy, the Architectural Association, the University of Texas at Austin, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, École d’Architecture Paris-Villemin and Umeå School of Architecture.
Harquitectes has received numerous national and international awards, and its work has been widely published and exhibited.
Event venue & nearby stays
Christopher Ingold Auditorium (XLG2), 22 Gordon Street, London, United Kingdom
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