2030 - The Net Zero challange

With 2030 Net Zero carbon targets looming, we asked two of our SterlingOSB Zero 2022 Retreat competition winners and two others representing both corporate practice and architectural activism on their views on whether the goal was truly achievable. Tune in to hear their views from the coalface- in conversation with RIBAJ deputy editor Jan-Carlos Kucharek. Sponsored by West Fraser.

India-based Balkrishna Doshi is RIBA Royal Gold Medallist 2022. He has been celebrated for combine pioneering modernism with vernacular, informed by a deep appreciation of the traditions of India’s architecture, climate, local culture and craft. He gave RIBAJ Meets a rare insight into how his home and studio in Ahmedabad taught him the importance of sound and silence to design, about flexibility of space and rejoicing and about putting people first. Presenter: Eleanor Young in collaboration with Kushnu Hoof.

Winning work and trying out new ways to design with the people behind architecture at Arup; directors Jo Wright and Nick Jackson and architect Christina Cox. Find out about the radical reconditioned an old Arup building – Triton, how they have found a new scale for the Battersea masterplan and what is next for the team. Presenter: Eleanor Young. Brought to you by the RIBA Journal with the support of Vandersanden

In search of authenticity and frugality in architecture with Eric Parry Architects as it researches and specifies materials to make buildings special. Founder Eric Parry, director Lee Higson and project architect Emily Posey on how they get under the skin of buildings using the steel, stone and the earth beneath our feet, from design development to the nitty gritty of their material explorations. Presenter: Eleanor Young. Brought to you by the RIBA Journal with the support of Vandersanden

Navigating the difficult decisions to lead climate action in architecture. Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ Peter Clegg, Jo White and Andrew Abraham on rediscovering a pioneer spirit for the climate emergency, growing buildings and taking sustainability to the politicians. Presenter: Eleanor Young. Brought to you by the RIBA Journal with the support of Vandersanden

RIBA J Meets introduces you to the inside tracks of leading architects in their fields. We hear from Waugh Thisleton, Simpson Haugh and Caruso St John architects about inspiration for their buildings and their influences on the architecture and design field. Presenters: Eleanor Young, Executive Editor, RIBA Journal & Hugh Pearman MBE, Editor RIBA Journal

RIBAJ meets Rachel Haugh and Ian Simpson, visits Docklands’ Dollar Bay and talks pulling pints, rebuilding Manchester after the IRA bomb and living high rise in Manchester. Presenter: Eleanor Young, RIBA Journal

Exploring the quiet virtues of timber, discuss bin stores, clubs, artists and bringing up kids in Hoxton – and the need for a construction revolution with Andrew Waugh and Anthony Thistleton. Presenter: Eleanor Young, RIBA Journal

Hugely admired gallery designers and committed teachers, but where is Caruso St John going next? Peter St John talks galleries, ice hockey and awards. Presenter: Hugh Pearman MBE, Editor RIBA Journal