Recent work by architects on material life cycles and carbon sequestration has produced a large body of technical prowess but this knowledge struggles to scale. Synthesizing this emerging body of research with larger discourse about Post-Environmental Policy could produce a new model of practice that straddles the border between urban planning, resource management, and architecture. This new model will test the idea of every act of building as a phased development and test new outcomes, benefits and drawbacks of increased entanglements and time frames of what constitutes "building".
