Ruth Lang: Creative reuse and sustainability

In the 12th episode of the 2nd season of A is for Architecture, I speak with architect, curator, scholar and teacher, Dr Ruth Lang, about her recent book, Building for Change: The Architecture of Creative Reuse, published by gestalten in August this year. Ruth wears many hats, working for Mae as a writer, editor and researcher, at the Design Museum as Research Lead for the Future Observatory, as well as being lead on the Critical Practice module at the LSA and lead on the Radical Practice MA module at the RCA.

Building for Change asks: ‘How can we build a sustainable future in a time of climate change and dwindling resources?’ and goes on to document a number of global projects by leading architects which have embraced creative/ adaptive reuse as a means of enhancing existing fabric, reducing waste and maintaining cultural and historical identity in places where the normative option may have otherwise been the knock down/ rebuild model.

You can see Ruth’s LinkedIn profile here, and she tweets here.

I met Ruth through her publishers, a guest suggestion by my boss, Chloe Street Tarbatt.  Alongside being generally polymathic, Ruth is great to hear speak, believe.

Happy listening!

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Music credits: Bruno Gillick

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