Hot to Cold

HOT TO COLD

After the global success of YES IS MORE, one of the best-selling archi­tec­ture books of its gene­ra­tion, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group pres­ents HOT TO COLD, an odyssey of archi­tec­tural adapt­a­tion. The book coin­cides with the HOT TO COLD show at the National Buil­ding Museum in Washington DC and pres­ents 60 case studies in harsh climate condi­tions in order to examine where and how we live on our planet.

As we travel from one end of the spec­trum to its oppo­site we will see that the more harsh the climate gets, the more intense its impact on the archi­tec­ture. The central chall­enge is to miti­gate the climatic extremes for hospi­table human life, while finding solu­tions that can be both econo­mic­ally and envi­ron­men­tally profi­table.

Archi­tec­ture is the art and science of accom­mo­da­ting the lives we want to live. Our cities and buil­dings aren’t givens; they are the way they are because that is as far as we have gotten to date. They are the best efforts of our ances­tors and fellow plane­ti­zens, and if they have short­co­mings, it is up to us to continue that effort, pick up where they left off. HOT TO COLD stays true to BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group’s grand mission to find a prag­matic utopia, shaping not only a parti­cular struc­tural entity, but the kind of world we wish to inhabit.

The book features:

• Design from award-winning artists Sagmeister & Walsh
• Previously unpu­blished essays by Bjarke Ingels.
• A conver­tible dust jacket-poster.