MOULD

What does climate breakdown do to architecture?

Research and activist collective MOULD has been grappling with this question since 2021 when it formed around the research grant 'Architecture after Architecture: Spatial Practice in the Face of the Climate Emergency'.

In the years since, the collective has been digging into the entanglements of the architecture industry, capitalism and the climate emergency to fundamentally rethink how the built environment is formed and how it might be reformed for liveable futures on this planet. MOULD's work and writing has been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Architectural Review and e-flux architecture, as well as in their own zines, pamphlets, walking tours and protest posters. 

MOULD's research comes together in Architecture is Climate, a website launched in March 2025 and the accompanying publication, published by dpr-barcelona in October 2025, which bring together inspirational case studies from around the world and argues that architecture must be fundamentally rethought in this age of overlapping crises. Provocative yet hopeful, MOULD prompt us to rethink our assumptions about the built environment and to imagine radical new ways of living.

The Zetteler team are energised by MOULD's bold and holistic approach to architecture and the role this can play in addressing the crises we face. We're proud to support MOULD with the launch of Architecture is Climate, working to ensure it lands on the bookcases and syllabi of all those designing, making and dreaming for a better world.