This should be architecture's finest hour. The leap in our understanding of the earth's systems has profound implications for the built environment and presents huge opportunities. The breadth of intellectual, emotional and moral grasp that is presented in this edition of Scroope seems to offer the right instruments for the mission. Sunand Prasad Scroope is the annual journal produced by students of Architecture at Cambridge University. Scroope 20 celebrates the reinstatement of the RIBA Part 2 course at Cambridge as ...
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This should be architecture's finest hour. The leap in our understanding of the earth's systems has profound implications for the built environment and presents huge opportunities. The breadth of intellectual, emotional and moral grasp that is presented in this edition of Scroope seems to offer the right instruments for the mission. Sunand Prasad Scroope is the annual journal produced by students of Architecture at Cambridge University. Scroope 20 celebrates the reinstatement of the RIBA Part 2 course at Cambridge as an MPhil in Environmental Design, and features several projects of the first graduating cohort. The journal includes contributions from Peter Clegg and Sunand Prasad. It seeks to inform and widen the debate into what the future of our built environment might look like; how it might work; and how it might be lived in. From Alistair Donald's provocative call to expand the human footprint, to Kevin Fellingham's plea for a more holistic way of thinking about the environment, a wide range of views are encompassed that sometimes build upon and sometimes challenge a range of existing orthodoxies.
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