Concrete Eulogies

Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar

Description

How do we mourn concrete?
Can we keep building in concrete? Has embodied carbon caught up with our concrete addiction, and what does this mean for concrete follies like M-Pavilion? In this, our first event of 2024, ACAN Australia lay concrete to rest. We discuss concrete's material histories as a geology of the Anthropocene and even as a symptom of chromophobia.

And what about Tadao Ando and Melbourne's 2024 M-Pavilion? We will estimate—by using the latest embodied carbon tools—just how much embodied carbon might be in the M-Pavilion—or is this drop in our concrete tomb not enough to matter? Or is concrete now in palliative care and as architects, is it time to grieve?
Period26 Mar 2024
Held atArchitects! Climate Action Network (ACAN) Australia, Australia, New South Wales
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • architecture
  • concrete
  • material culture

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