The exhibition and the accompanying publication will be the first comprehensive study of the history of environmental thinking in architecture at any major institution globally. During the 1960s as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over industrial pollution resource depletion and ecological limits attitudes toward the environment became social political and ideological. Published to accompany the first expansive study of the history of environmental thinking in architecture Emerging Ecologies Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism studies the role architects and designers have played in defining our understanding of ampampquotnatureampampquot and the ampampquotenvironmentampampquot specifically during the rise of environmental discourse.