Blue_Cypress
11-01-2007, 07:29 AM
This brief article perfectly reflects my sentiments on todays sustainable architecture, in a form much better than any I have been able to reproduce myself.
Excerpt:
He adds that “projects said to be sustainable” often receive "less scrutiny" than projects not so described – which has one particularly disturbing side-effect: sustainable development becomes one of the easiest ways to produce what Inaba calls "regressive urban environments" – with the full support of people who consider themselves architecturally progressive.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/like-1980s-golf-resorts.html
Excerpt:
He adds that “projects said to be sustainable” often receive "less scrutiny" than projects not so described – which has one particularly disturbing side-effect: sustainable development becomes one of the easiest ways to produce what Inaba calls "regressive urban environments" – with the full support of people who consider themselves architecturally progressive.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/like-1980s-golf-resorts.html
