What is the connection between architecture and environmental issues?
Architecture is an environmental issue in that environment means “that which surrounds.” We live in a world surrounded by things buildings, roads, computers and storm sewers. All of these sit within a larger environment of climate, water regimes, waste cycles, wind and energy. Sometimes we are tempted to think of architecture as an object as something that sits on the landscape. And it does. But that is not its purpose, nor its intervention on the earth. Architecture is like a second set of clothes that we inhabit, in which we move, and that mediates the outside and the inside. So in a sense, there is no thinking of architecture and building outside of the environment because it is the environment. But I think you are asking something different about the relationship between architecture and environmentalism or ecology. It is said that buildings/architecture use between 40 percent and 60 percent of all energy in the United States; most of the rest is used in transportation. We know tod
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