4 Architects

The sustainability of the project is on a list somewhere. It is also the first thing that comes off the list when the budget tightens, and everyone in the room knows it will.

This academy has a plain explanation for that, and it is not cynicism. What is added after a design is settled stays separable from it, and what is separable comes off. What cannot be taken out of the thing survives every budget meeting there will ever be. Which way it faces, how it is massed, what it is built of: those were decided early, cost nothing at the time, and will still be there in twenty years. The book says the same in its own way: these are not optional extras to be added if the budget allows, they belong in the fabric of the work.

So the work here moves earlier, and it is done on a live project of yours.

This is where the technical strategies of architectural practice are taught, and where you decide which ones this project needs: the site and the orientation, the massing, the fabric, the systems, the supply chain, and the long life of what gets built. Each one is put where it is still free to take.

You leave with those decisions taken on your own project and the written case for them.

Start with the free thirty minutes. You can take it before you commit to anything else, and you spend it on a project of your own.