This year, Icarus Complex presents a new series of conversations, photo essays, reportage, and immersive features curated by architect-writer Rupal Rathore exploring how the built environment both shapes and is reshaped by the systems driving climate change.

How do you experience climate change through the built environment?

We invited Icarus Complex readers and contributors to participate in a shared experiment that asks a simple but revealing question.

In India, as development and climate pressures converge, architects are reimagining our relationship to land, materials, and the built environment.

 Indian architect Mona Doctor-Pingel illustrates her approach to this with her design for the SAIL Centre in Surat, completed in 2024.