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FRUGALITY series is a critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda. Frugality means less material, less energy, less expense, greater respect for the environment, greater constructive sincerity, and greater social honesty.

The FRUGALITY series brings together three issues examining the project through a simple question: how can we build with less? It explores strategies of material reduction, constructive precision, and the careful use of energy and resources.

Frugality challenges architecture’s iconic and symbolic ambitions, introducing instead a basic rationality: a new, styleless classicism, standardised technology and programmatic flexibility.

FRUGALITY proposes shifting the focus of design towards a commitment to resources — their cycles and their trajectories.