• The answer to our problems lies with buildings. Do you actually believe you can separate buildings out from the infrastructure of cities and mobility of transit and the expectations and incentives of people? Buildings and property developments are in certain stages derivatives of transportation system and infrastructure. The example of London: the creation of [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Architecture not in isolation
Architecture cannot be studied in isolation and is greatly benefited from having knowledge not only about the construction industry but understanding the political economic and social environment of the surrounding. The understanding of the various systems helps us redefine what is feasible and what may just be a temporary solution. Although we may believe that [...]
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“Cool People Ride Electric”
Firstly, sustainable architecture can be perceived as many things – the current fashion being “green” architecture. One could also, however, see sustainable architecture as an architecture which sustains itself financially – the ongoing development and evolution of architecture throughout history has required a financial basis – in the form of clients, or patrons. Ongoing sustainability [...]
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SUSTAINABILITY VS SOCIETY
Talking of architecture and sustainability in Peru is something very complex. We have 28 of the 32 climates that exist in the planet that makes our country very unique in terms of having almost every ecosystem in the world. We could have the posibility of taking advantage of the diversity we have but in practice that [...]
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Advanced Nature in a Sustainable Environment
To understand the city, we must first integrate 3 key concepts to explain their abilities; Mutapolis, urban thermodynamics and advanced environments, which show us the potentialities, form and infrastructure that have our civilization in order to achieve an intelligent city, from the social fields, economic and environmental, all these elements must always be connected to [...]
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