Architecture at the End of the World

How to start thinking about the use of modern spaces in the near future

The headlines are clear: the world is ending and we’re all going to die. The latter isn’t true, and with humanity at the point we’re at now, it may never be true. The first, however, on the simple basis of considering a long-enough timescale, is inevitably true, and considering the way things have been going these last few years, it may be imminent. Every world order ends. Every political system governing a huge number of people has, as a rule of…