The Ahmad Tehrani Symposium: Sauerbruch Hutton with Mark Wigley @sauerbruchhutton Draw Love Build Within the overall framework of today’s wide-reaching sustainable agenda - whose urgency has been noticeably reinforced by the current pandemic - architecture occupies a delicate and often contradictory territory. In truth largely partial to the still-reigning paradigm of endless growth, it finds itself in immanent contradiction to the ecological mindset and its imperative of reduction. Faced with this conflict we ask ourselves: can architecture act as an avantgarde for the “Climatic Turn”? For a long time, the very stuff of architecture - that is: haptic, corporeal, sensual matter – has become banalised into marketing image ‘material’. Perhaps the Climatic Turn will help to re-root appreciation and to reassert architecture’s inherent power? Sustainable practice should provide a testbed for a decarbonized economy; its products should enable different lifestyles that rethink the ways we live and work, how we consume and how (much) we produce. Witnessing slow societal transformation in the face of rapid environmental change, we think that rational (and quantitative) arguments alone will not suffice to motivate change. Instead we should find ways to combine a new modesty with environments that stimulate the senses and maximize the wellbeing of the individual that the ecological movement has always wished to protect. BMS – Berlin Metropolitan School ©️ Jan Bitter HFO - Hager Forum Obernai ©️ Jan Bitter JHS – University Jessop West, Sheffield ©️ Sauerbruch Hutton Poster/ Image: @wkshps #mit #mitarchitecture #massachusettsinstituteoftechnology