The Technosphere: ArchDaily’s March Editorial Focus

Collapse of the Brumadinho iron ore tailings dam in Brazil, January 2019. Source imagery © Maxar Technologies – Westminster, Colorado.How heavy is a house? In his 1965 essay A Home Is Not a House, Reyner Banham observed that modern American dwellings were becoming structurally lighter while growing heavier in mechanical services, such as plumbing, wiring, heating, and cooling. The true weight of architecture, he argued, was no longer in walls and roofs, but in the energy-intensive sys