Practicing Freedom: The Architecture of Decentralized Sustainability

You are cordially invited to attend the lecture by Antonius Richard Rusli:

Practicing Freedom: The Architecture of Decentralized Sustainability

Date and Time: 20 August 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Location: SDE 4, Level 5 Forum

BOA-SIA CPD Points: TBC

Registration: https://bit.ly/nusdoa_Rusli

Emerging from the profound diversity of the archipelago, RAD+ar transforms layered regional limitations into opportunities for liberating architecture. Discussion/ presentarion explores the concept of “Practicing Freedom” by questioning the notion of a centralized rulebook for sustainable design. Instead, it champions a decentralized, inclusive approach where each island, culture, and micro-climate dictates its own environmental solutions. By drawing upon hundreds of distinct cultural languages and continuously experimenting with vernacular techniques, spatial permeability, and low-carbon materials, this session will demonstrate how immersing in localized constraints grants us unlimited permutations to create truly responsive, inclusive architecture.

Antonius Richard, principal architect of RAD+ar believes that in order to shape a better and more sustainable version of today’s challenges, architecture can profitably be one of the most worth-exploring field. By utilizing spaces to reach its maximum profit and potential while creating a provocative and most emotion envoking spaces, RAD+ar’s main priority is to decentralized sustainable architecture in Indonesia.