Building Carbon Europe

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Sternberg Press
21 May 2024

Architecture

Series: Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice

How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.

How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.

In this volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series, Dennis Pohl locates the origin of Europe's dependency on carbon and nuclear power in the postwar architectural designs and energy policies of the European Community. Since the 1950s, architects have proposed territorial, regional, and urban development plans that served the European political project. They collaborated with the European Coal and Steel Community in an effort to render the steel building industry as efficient as the car industry; they incorporated the ideas of infinite nuclear energy, as promoted by the European Atomic Energy Community, into their designs.

This book demonstrates how architecture served the political economy of postwar Europe as a means of turning coal, steel, and radioactivity into tools of European governance. Architectural design enabled EU institutions to support social policies and worker housing within the coal and steel industry as well as to promote a new pan-European lifestyle based on nuclear energy. In other words, architecture powered Europe's larger infrastructural, economic, and cultural network. Pohl's work not only sheds light on how architecture has contributed to the carbonization of Europe, it also highlights the environmental issue, which challenges both architectural criticism and historiography in the era of the Anthropocene.

Design by Zak Group Featuring artwork by Armin Linke

By: Dennis Pohl
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 151mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 247g
ISBN: 9781915609014
ISBN 10: 1915609011
Series: Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 21 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dennis Pohl is Postdoctoral Researcher at the TU Delft Data, Design and Society Group, and Research Coordinator at The New Open. His research focuses on the relationship between energy, politics, and architecture of the post-war era.

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