Season 3

  • Season 3
  • Episode 10
  • Architecture

Holcim Awards 2023: Round-up in Venice with the jury chairs

This year’s competition is now over. Out of 2,380 registrants from 114 countries, 20 entries stood above the rest. So what were the big takeaways? Who showed the most ambition? The five jury chairs are here to tell.
  • Season 3
  • Episode 7
  • Architecture

Nina Maritz, Nina Maritz Architects: The frugality champion

Can necessity unlock greater innovation? How to create an architecture of delight and renown when the climate is harsh, resources are scarce and budgets tight? Can less ever become something more?
  • Season 3
  • Episode 6
  • Architecture

Ambrish Arora, Studio Lotus: The reflective practitioner

Could a universal process account for all things sustainable — energy, materiality, comfort, etc. — in all typologies, from resorts to low-cost buildings? Would this work in a land as vast and complex as India?
  • Season 3
  • Episode 5
  • Architecture

Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO: The architect of care

Buildings offer shelter. Good architecture does more: it is a form of care for the mind and spirit. So how do we ensure sustainable equitable care for everyone, all social and emotional needs included?
  • Season 3
  • Episode 3
  • Manufacturing

Nigel Stansfield, Interface: The flooring innovators

As we aim to ‘do good’, we often wrestle with what to buy. Which materials are less harmful to the planet? But can a product also be net positive? Could manufacturing help reverse global warming?
  • Season 3
  • Episode 1
  • Energy

Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute: The energy guru

To halt global warming, we must eliminate greenhouse gas emissions at scale and with speed. With renewables today, we can ignite a new kind of fire, one that is emissions-free and lower cost.

Season 2

  • Season 2
  • Episode 11
  • Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism

Looking back at season 2 from the cutting floor

Season 2 of Ecogradia has come to an end. Before we move on, let’s take a peek at some of the talking points that didn’t make the cut in the last ten episodes. Here is what was left ‘unsaid’.
  • Season 2
  • Episode 9
  • Architecture

Alyssa-Amor Gibbons, Studio Amor: Standing up to hurricanes

Extreme weather is often a matter of life and death. How do we design for the growing frequency and ferocity of storms? Do we resist at all costs or should we build structures that give in a little to save the whole?
  • Season 2
  • Episode 8
  • Landscape, Urbanism

Herbert Dreiseitl, DREISEITLconsulting: Thinking fluid

Water is a pressing design challenge of the climate crisis. Too much or too little and we struggle to survive. What is the sweet spot where we, our cities and the ecosystems that we rely on, can thrive?
  • Season 2
  • Episode 7
  • Architecture, Finance

Prasoon Kumar, BillionBricks: Innovating homes for the homeless

More than a billion people are without shelter today. They could be 3 billion by 2050. Is the growing demand a giant opportunity? What if houses for those in need could produce both renewable energy and long-term profits?
  • Season 2
  • Episode 5
  • Landscape, Urbanism

Kotchakorn Voraakhom, LANDPROCESS: Designing cities for water

Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, is sinking fast, like many other cities around the world. How can urbanists turn this congested megacity, threatened by flood and saltwater intrusion, into a resilient amphibious metropolis?
  • Season 2
  • Episode 4
  • Architecture, Interior, Landscape

Bill Browning, Terrapin Bright Green: Crafting biophilic solutions

As a species, we seek closeness to nature. Designing for well-being, therefore, aims to bring nature to the heart of the built environment. But what do these ‘biophilic’ spaces feel like? And how do we set the stage to reap their benefits?
  • Season 2
  • Episode 3
  • Architecture, Urbanism

Chrisna du Plessis and Bill Reed: Regenerating life by design

Should our buildings and cities minimise harm or do ‘good’ by design? In a world already at risk, less harm is no longer enough. We must repair, regenerate and create new life. So where do we start?

Season 1

  • Season 1
  • Episode 5
  • Landscape, Urbanism

Yu Kongjian, Turenscape: Landscape as ‘art of survival’

We all want to live closer to nature. But can urban landscapes be designed to mimic natural systems and processes? And if replicated, what would a nature-based design approach mean to future cities?
  • Season 1
  • Episode 1
  • Architecture, Urbanism

Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell, WOHA: (Re)Imagining the city

How can we fix the problem of cities today? Is density at the expense of liveability? Are human-made and natural systems — key to our survival — at odds with each other? Can design offer a solution?

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