Typology: #Power_station | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
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Faced with planetary catastrophe, does the future of energy generation lie in a return to its historical origins?
Of all the failures currently threatening global politics, none is quite so baleful as the refusal to tackle climate change. Architecture is, like all technological activities, deeply complicit in this negligence. Although this is a systemic problem, which can in no way be reduced to a single type of building, the power station can be taken as emblematic of this failure, not least for its ongoing proliferation. And yet, as well as failure, the power station also represents a great success story, which has – at least for the time being – transformed the lives of so many people for the better.
