The World as a Wardian Case
by Kate Brown
21 minutes
In 1829, Nathanial Bagshaw Ward, a London doctor, placed the pupa of a sphinx moth, some dirt, and a few leaves in a glass bottle and clamped on a lid...Adventures in Mockstitutions
by Jenny Price
7 minutes
“If You Need to Use the Art” is an alt-institution public art project—or a mockstitution, to use artist Gregory Sholette’s moniker. These projects mim...Climate-Sensitive Architecture as a Blueprint: Habits, Shades, and the Irresistible Staircase
15 minutes
Patterns of Desire The relationship of climate to the built environment has been of increasing interest over the past decade. As is generally known, t...Yoruba Architectural Sites in Nigeria
14 minutes
Heritage preservation is the strategy of conserving the cultural and environmental history of a certain time and place, and it also has political, spi...Coexisting with Nature: The Huts of the Camargue Wetlands
6 minutes
Historians are just beginning to explore what ordinary buildings can teach us about practices of environmental adaptation across the globe. In a count...Dike 14, Cleveland, Ohio: Containing Pollution in the Age of Ecology
6 minutes
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create ...