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CLIMATIC ARCHITECTURE By Philippe Rahm

Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2024 Keynote Lecture by Philippe Rahm Location: Hydrometeorology Institute (Tbilisi, Georgia) 28 Sep, 2024 Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the forms of cities and buildings. These fundamental causes of urban planning and buildings were ignored in the second half of the 20th century thanks to the enormous use of fossil energy by heating and air conditioning systems, pumps and refrigerators, that today cause the greenhouse effect and global warming. Similarly, the antibiotics and vaccines that appeared at the same time largely solved health problems, allowing architects and urban planners to focus on cultural rather than physiological, aesthetic rather than health issues. The fight against climate change forces the architects and urban designer to take back seriously the climatic issue in order to base their design on more consideration to the local climatic context and energy resources. Similarly, the Covid-19 pandemic reminded us of the health factors in the design of urban and architectural space, the importance for example of ventilation or in the choice of copper as a contact material. Faced with the climatic and sanitary challenges of the 21st century, we propose to reset our discipline on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities, where air, light, heat or humidity are recognized are real materials of building, convection, thermal conduction, evaporation, emissivity, or effusivity are becoming design tools for composing architecture and cities, and through materialism dialectic, are able to revolutionize esthetic and social values.