Author Archives: Hattie Hartman

Continuing its focus on landscape, AJ Climate Champions turns its attention to two recent high-profile competitions where green and blue infrastructure promise to drive the design

The founding partner of J & L Gibbons discusses why trees matter, urban forestry and how architects and landscape architects can work together to green our cities

‘Coal helped revolutionise architecture, but with the downside that it has the potential to wipe us off the planet’

COP26’s potential as a global event offers an opportunity to accelerate a change for more sustainable building, says Hattie Hartman

In this third episode dedicated to retrofit, Steve Webb of Webb Yates Engineers explains how to persuade clients to use more timber and stone while Wilf Meynell shares Studio Bark’s approach to Victorian house extensions

Harry Paticas explains why he left architectural practice to focus on retrofitting schools, and how he educates schoolchildren on the climate emergency

In a bonus episode of the AJ’s podcast series, we talk to Owen Hatherley about the retrofitting of Modernist buildings and to the AJ’s Will Hurst about our RetroFirst campaign

The final episode in the AJ’s podcast series features an interview with German architect Anna Heringer

The penultimate episode in the AJ’s podcast series features an interview with Sarah Wigglesworth

The fourth episode in the AJ’s podcast series features an interview with Haworth Tompkins’ head of sustainability, Diana Dina, plus a discussion on Foster + Partners and ZHA’s departure from Architects Declare