The Canadian Centre for Architecture is the host of Environmental Histories of Architecture, a multiyear research, writing, and publication project under the editorial direction of Kim Förster. This collective publication explores the histories of the coproduction of architecture and the environment through the lenses of social and cultural ecologies in the ever-darkening shadow of the climate, social, and biodiversity crises. From 2017 through 2019, Förster, then associate director of research at the CCA, organized a group of contributing authors under the rubric “Architecture and/for the Environment,” with support from the Mellon Foundation’s multidisciplinary research program in architecture, urbanism, and the humanities awarded to the CCA in 2016. Together with advisers Daniel Abramson, David Gissen, and Imre Szeman, the eight authors, selected from an open call, participated in public workshops in Montreal and New York City, creating a collective exchange of the knowledge and ideas that move across their eight...

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