As it streaks overhead, the ISS heralds the emergence of a new age of architecture. Its focus will return to basic human needs for shelter, safety and security for all, and how solving these must respect and nurture local ecologies, whether familiar or alien. This new age of architecture will underpin our expansion across the solar system while safeguarding our increasingly precarious existence on Earth. It is an architecture that acknowledges how a status quo that was comfortable for many is over. We must step up to the challenges ahead. Our survival as a species may be at stake.

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