Philippe Madec on combining sustainable development with Frampton’s critical regionalism

Episode 23. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. In this episode, we continue our focus on France, speaking to one of the country’s leading practitioners of ecological architecture. Over four decades, Philippe Madec has combined practice, teaching and writing. He has built extensively across France: housing, public buildings, and many urban design and masterplanning projects which feature abundant green spaces. He also explains why he is no longer interested in Passivhaus.

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