OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE. The cry with which Greta Thunberg addressed the Davos Forum in 2019 lends the title to this book, which vindicates architecture as a reactive domain, capable of playing a transcendent role in the current ecological, climatic and social crisis, and of increasing the resilience of urban ecosystems and the protection of biodiversity. It explores the design challenges and opportunities that arise in these times of crisis, when cities and buildings can no longer be described as isolated objects, but as nodes of material and social systems connected in networks, in continuous interaction with the atmosphere, the geosphere and with the rest of living material systems, through specific architectural and urban plans. From a critical and speculative approach, five complementary themes –metabolism, obsolescence, atmosphere, interaction and biodiversity– are addressed through conversations between theorists and critics of international prestige and teams of Spanish architects, whose exemplary practices have shown sensitivity towards the climate emergency.

Editores invitados / Guest editors: LUIS BASABE, DIEGO GARCÍA-SETIÉN, JAVIER GARCÍA-GERMÁN, NIEVES MESTRE
Fila cero / Front row: JUAN ELVIRA, URIEL FOGUÉ, ARANTZA OZAETA, MANU PASCUAL, LYS VILLALBA
Autores / Authors: CARLOS ARROYO, CRISTINA DÍAZ, CRISTINA GAMBOA, EFRÉN GARCÍA-GRINDA, DAVID GISSEN, DIRK HEBEL,  ANDRÉS JAQUE, LYDIA KALLIPOLITI, AMANDA MASHA, KIEL MOE, ROGER TUDÓ

This eleventh volume of the collection of essays on Architecture and Ceramics that the Madrid Department of Ceramics is teaching and coordinating, and with the purporse of continuing to delve deeper into the importance of ceramics in Architecture, a series of reflections and thoughts are collected in relation to the ceramic material and the architectural space. Different architects approach ceramics from multiple points of view, thus broadening the field of interest of a material that is deeply rooted in the discipline of architecture, with contributions that extend its knowledge by combining its historical, technical and spatial values.