Join Architecture 2030 at New York City Climate Week for a day of events on September 25th from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm at the Center for Architecture followed by an evening panel discussion with Architecture 2030 CEO Vincent Martinez.

Architecture 2030’s latest article dismantles the misleading narrative that an AI-driven energy crisis requires fossil fuels—a fiction that creates “sacrifice zones” across America’s heartland. In its place, the article uses hard evidence to reveal a quiet revolution in our field: we have managed massive growth while significantly reducing our energy and carbon footprint.

With BEACON, our mission is to light the way to a better future. We spotlight the leaders who are designing built environments that support healthy, vibrant and equitable living, highlighting pockets of the future alive and thriving in the present.

The Mass Timber Tipping Point was a two-year project led by Pilot Projects and Architecture 2030 that involved a collaboration with 43 small, medium and large architecture and engineering firms in North America representing 409 offices and studios.

A message from Vincent Martinez, Architecture 2030’s new CEO

Architecture 2030 delegates — in person and virtual — are engaged with COP29 in Baku, advancing building decarbonization strategies. Our themes this year: Investing in the Future: Resilient and Carbon-Sequestering Cities; Existing Buildings; Sufficiency in the Built Environment; and Traditional Knowledge as Climate Action.

After a two-year collaboration between Architecture 2030 and Climate Positive Design, we are pleased to announce the publication of a series of new and updated resources to support policymakers, planners, and designers in full built environment decarbonization.

Architecture 2030 recently published a policy and practice framework providing key strategies to reduce embodied carbon in infrastructure, landscapes, and land use planning. Intended for planners and policymakers, this framework is designed to empower these critical early decision-makers to address carbon emissions at regional, city, neighborhood, and development levels.

The world is quickly depleting its 1.5°C carbon budget of 340-400 GT CO2, and waiting until 2050 to achieve zero emissions means giving up the 1.5°C goal altogether.

The U.S. building sector has not increased its energy consumption since 2005 even though we have added over 50 billion square feet (4.7 billion square metres) to our building stock, and today CO2 emissions in the entire sector continue to decline and are down 30% from 2005 levels.