Material Cultures
Isabel Allen2025-12-17T17:18:00+00:00Material Cultures explain how they are challenging conventional construction cultures in a bid to bring architecture closer to agriculture, land management and landscape.
Josh McCosh, van Heyningen and Haward
AT Editor2025-11-18T10:17:40+00:00Josh McCosh of van Heyningen and Haward argues that meaningful progress on low-carbon construction demands immediate legislative action, a shift to natural materials, and industry-wide accountability for real building performance.
Call for expressions of interest: The Hummingbird Learning Lab
Isabel Allen2025-11-10T16:21:21+00:00The Hummingbird Learning Lab invites expressions of interest for the design, development and delivery of a demountable project for an inspirational space for learning, research and exploration that reflects its neuroscience-grounded approach to education and community engagement.
Marks Barfield Architects
Isabel Allen2025-10-28T15:46:42+00:00Marks Barfield Architects discuss viewing buildings as material banks; drawing inspiration from biomimicry to shape the culture and structure of the practice and taking a principled position on projects at home and overseas.
Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture
Isabel Allen2025-10-17T12:42:03+01:00Exploration Architecture's founder Michael Pawlyn talks about biologically-inspired design approaches, moving beyond PassivHaus to an ideal of ActiveHaus and discussing company policy while making hedgerow jam.
Regenerative Architecture Index 2025
AT Editor2025-10-06T16:23:19+01:00An event celebrating the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI), hosted by UK Architects Declare and Architecture Today in partnership with Schüco, took place on 2 October at Broadway Malyan’s London office.
Dispatches from OOBE
Jason Sayer2025-08-28T11:40:01+01:00AT chats to Emma McNicholas and Chris Shiels, directors at OOBE – one of a select band of landscape architects who have taken part in the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index.
Kieran Hawkins
Nelly Greig2025-10-17T12:04:50+01:00In Edinburgh’s gritty, ever-changing Leith, a new kind of architecture is taking place. It’s low-tech, hands-on, and entirely regenerative. From hempcrete mixed like porridge to screw-pile foundations and low-carbon concrete, Kieran Hawkins, founder of Cairn, proves that small material changes, collaborative building, and clear values can drive big shifts in how, and why, we build.
2025 Regenerative Architecture Index Party
Jason Sayer2025-08-27T11:21:14+01:00Join us on Thursday 2 October 2025 at Broadway Malyan as we celebrate the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI).
From earth to action
AT Editor2025-06-03T09:14:23+01:00Jim Matthews, managing director of HG Matthews, talks to AT about the challenges and opportunities facing the construction industry as it shifts towards more sustainable and regenerative practices, and the role of leadership, innovation and collaboration in driving meaningful change.
Enter the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index
Jason Sayer2025-05-27T09:48:11+01:00Entries to the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI) close at 11.59pm on Friday 23 May.