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Sustainable Futures White Paper

  • By
    Clare Wright RIBA, MBE, Mel Allwood, Catherine Slessor, Eilish McGuinness, Kathy Willis, Michael Minta, Edward Clarke, Stephen Schwendel Smith, Naila Yousuf, Pip Willcox & Catherine Slessor
  • Foreward
    Pip Willcox
  • First published
    2025
Lambeth palace library as the front cover of a white paper front page called sustainable futures by Wright & Wright

Bringing together compelling perspectives from leading voices across architecture, heritage, and policy, Sustainable Futures is a new white paper by Wright & Wright Architects reflecting on the wide-ranging strategies required to futureproof our built environment.

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Sustainable Futures spread of the foreword

Pip Willcox's foreword on Collections

Sustainable Futures spread by Eilish Mcguinness

30 years of National Lottery heritage funding

Sustainable Futures spread by Edward Clarke

Transforming Historic Estates by Edward Clarke

Projects mentioned

Lambeth Palace Masterplan

Lambeth Palace Library and Archive

The British Academy

St Edmund Hall

Contents

Editing and Critique

Catherine Slessor, Naila Yousuf & Aishwarya

Graphic Design

Simon Esterton & Holly Catford

Additional input and creativity of Sandy Wright, Stephen Smith, Helen Hancock, Rob Neal, Ronan Morris and Joshua Blandford.


Chapters
Foreword (Pip Willcox)

Cathedral Thinking (Clare Wright)

The Challenges of Sustainable Development (Mel Allwood)

Strategies for sustainable planning (Catherine Slessor)

30 Years of National Lottery Funding (Eilish McGuinness)

Prescribing nature: but what and where? (Kathy Willis)

Climate of change (Michael Minta)

Transforming historic estates (Edward Clarke)

Lambeth Palace Masterplan (Stephen Smith)

Retrofit for the future (Naila Yousuf)

Sustainable Futures: A Forum on the built environment 12.11.24

Contributor biographies

Acknowledgements and image credits

Sustainable Futures White Paper Front Cover Landscape

Sustainable Futures white paper

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