ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1039737/unearthing-the-ground-architecture-and-the-politics-of-oil Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1039737/unearthing-the-ground-architecture-and-the-politics-of-oil Beneath the ground lies a material that has quietly shaped the architecture of the modern world. Petroleum is rarely discussed within architectural discourse, yet the extraction, circulation, and consumption of oil have profoundly reorganized the spatial logic of territories. Pipelines, refineries, drilling platforms, ports, highways, and petrochemical complexes form a vast infrastructural landscape that sustains contemporary life, composing a dispersed architecture of energy.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039255/rethinking-architecture-at-the-scale-of-planetary-systems Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1039255/rethinking-architecture-at-the-scale-of-planetary-systems Architecture has traditionally been described as a discipline concerned with space, form, and material presence. Yet this understanding becomes increasingly limited when confronted with the conditions that shape contemporary construction. Buildings no longer emerge from a stable relationship between site, program, and material. Instead, they are produced within a dense web of technological systems that operate across territorial, ecological, and temporal scales. Energy networks, data infrastructures, extraction processes, and global logistics shape architecture as decisively as climate or urban context.

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