AJ Climate Champions
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Brought to you by the Architects’ Journal. AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman and co-host Joe Jack Williams talk to changemakers and innovators who are transforming architecture by designing in ways that respect planetary boundaries. Nominated for Audio Content of the Year at the PPA Awards 2025.
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Ana Belizário: ‘Timber should be the material of choice in the global south’
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Kirsten Haggart: Building with timber has reached a ‘tipping point’
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Joe Giddings on the ‘mind-blowing’ growth of bio-based materials in Europe
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Material Cultures' Summer Islam: ‘We start with a map of nearby materials and products’
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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‘Retrofit is seen as really alienating. We’re trying to blow that apart’
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Tara Gbolade: ‘It’s unsustainable for small practices not to upskill’
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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‘Even a small practice can push the boundaries of reuse’ – Brisco Loran
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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IF_DO’s Sarah Castle: ‘People become the project’
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Chipperfield’s MC Piccinelli on how retrofit can enhance creativity
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Why earth is the ultimate circular material
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May 23, 2024 |
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Vinu Daniel on transforming mud and waste into architecture
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May 08, 2024 |
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Carmody Groarke’s Sian Ricketts on making bricks from waste
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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AKTII’s David Watson on how to reduce the environmental impacts of brick
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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‘Over-specification of concrete is an industry addiction’
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Henning Larsen’s Martha Lewis on how to screen materials for both chemicals and carbon
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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‘I’m no longer the wood weirdo,’ says Andrew Waugh
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The Public Practice associates driving retrofit and net zero in the public sector
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Je Ahn on setting up Studio Weave and working with found materials
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Material passports and Architects Declare four years on
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Architects must re-educate themselves on timber sourcing
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Architype’s Ann-Marie Fallon: ‘Net Zero has almost lost its meaning’
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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‘We apologise for designing buildings that exploit the planet’
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Chinese architect Xu Tiantian on revitalising rural villages
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Historic England’s Morwenna Slade on why a ‘fabric first’ approach must be used with caution in heritage buildings
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Adapting conservation area guidance for climate emergency
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Balancing heritage and climate urgency in listed buildings
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Educators Sofie Pelsmakers and Cíaran Malik on teaching climate literate design
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The trade-off between ventilation and airtightness in the post-pandemic world
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Why architectural education needs radical reform
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Danish architect Lone Feifer on ‘absolute’ sustainability
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Hawkins\Brown’s Louisa Bowles on what net zero actually means
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Editional Studio on persuading domestic clients to build less and retrofit more
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Bob Prewett explains why Passivhaus is often too much for heritage buildings
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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ACAN founding member Sara Edmonds on ramping up domestic retrofit
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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John Christophers on his zero carbon home, which generates a 40% energy surplus
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May 26, 2022 |
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Lessons from AHMM’s Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School building performance study
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May 11, 2022 |
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Judit Kimpian on why building performance studies are crucial for net zero
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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AKT II’s Hanif Kara on CLT virtue signalling, concrete innovations and Bloomberg’s embodied carbon
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum on why the climate crisis is not a north-south problem
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Philippe Madec on combining sustainable development with Frampton’s critical regionalism
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Why France is increasingly building with bio-renewable materials – with Dominique Gauzin-Müller
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Justin McGuirk on the Design Museum’s Waste Age exhibition and Kat Scott on the Architects Declare Practice Guide
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Rachel Hoolahan on material passports for retrofit
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Duncan Baker-Brown on mining the Anthropocene
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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COP26: Glasgow‘s plans for carbon neutrality by 2030 + ACAN‘s COP26 fringe activism
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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COP26 pop-up activism and Glasgow’s new climate resilient public realm
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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RIBA Climate Special with Simon Allford and Gary Clark
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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The 21st-century village: Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross on VeloCity
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Rewilding expert Isabella Tree on why a 3,500-home development must be stopped
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Thamesmead Waterfront and Home of 2030, two competitions wins where ‘landscape is the glue’
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Landscape architect Jo Gibbons on why trees matter, urban forestry and greening our cities
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Barnabas Calder revisits architectural history through the lens of energy and climate
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Guy Shrubsole on rewilding Britain and greening our cities
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May 26, 2021 |
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Steve Webb & Wilf Meynell: ‘We’re brainwashed into steel and concrete mode’
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Harry Paticas on empowering communities through the low-carbon retrofit of primary schools
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Owen Hatherley on Modernism + Will Hurst explains RetroFirst (bonus episode)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Anna Heringer: 'You can build with clay in a very modern way'
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Sarah Wigglesworth: 'Sustainable architecture is fantastically creative'
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Haworth Tompkins' Diana Dina: 'We want to share ideas with other practices'
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Sofie Pelsmakers: 'Sustainable architecture is "architecture on steroids" – it needs to perform'
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Annalie Riches: 'We need more projects that show sustainable design isn't ugly'
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Maria Smith: 'It's depressing how much architects are the problem'
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Oct 22, 2020 |