Cities infrastructures are networks, functional networks that allow the connected buildings to make optimal use of their design. A building could stand alone, but if separated from the city infrastructure, it becomes more like a sculptural object., it would segregate its inhabitants from the rest of the city and produce exclusion in social and economical [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Architecture: For growth or sustenance?
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? It is off course naive to state that solving “buildings” can solve the economic problems that we face today. Nonetheless, buildings(or built [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Remita Thomas Comments closed
Happiness and Architecture
It is very tempting to seduce ourselves, as architects or as anybody keen on architecture or otherwise involved in the design process that 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 [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Wen Shan Foo Comments closed
Thoughts..
As architects tend to see things holistically, I think focusing on buildings instead of urban infrastructure is like working on a detail of a wind for example. Building planning is a detail of a bigger plan, in that case urban infrastructure. Even though architects do not design cities as a whole, the tend to [...]
Posted in Apostolos Marios Mouzakopoulos, Economics of Sustainability Comments closed
Double-Dipping: Using time-share to stop being the problem
Architecture’s relationship with economics in the past four or five decades has been tense. An entire subculture of the discipline, often known as the “Resistance Model,” formed with the explicit goal of holding strong against the forces of capitalism and consumerism. The architects that held to this model saw the economic (perhaps only financial) forces [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Mary Katherine Heinrich Tagged M. K. T. Heinrich Comments closed