What is the relationship between Ethnoarchitecture and “Green Architecture”?
The main problem that architecture faces today is in my opinion, more than environmental, social. But the problem of “going green” in architecture is being way too often reduced to a mere technological problem, that of creating sun or wind powered devices, or using more efficient appliances. Sustainability must be understood not only in terms of technical feasibility, but also in terms of social impact. If “green” solutions are efficient, energetically, environmentally, economically, but do not propose anything to change the unequal distribution of resources they are helping to save, things are just going to continue the way they are. With the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, the planet, as an abstract, will be saved, but social inequality will continue increasing. Sustainable development is “meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs,” as the classic definition of the World Commission on En
