Abstract
Architects who understand the need to build enduringly are faced with the almost complete absence of international agreements with respect to a planetary ecological project. The coming environmental changes will probably occur long before the small measures that can be implemented by some building industries on a regional level have even the slightest effect. Meanwhile, the health of the planet in positive feedback. Any project that aims for a wise ecological dwelling on this planet needs to consider short-term sustainable measures in comparison with long-term enduring practices. Might schools of thoughts such as traditional architecture, Gaia theory, Earth System Science, deep ecology, eco-feminism, converge on a co-evolutionary partnership between the natural and the human?
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Samir Younés
SAMIR YOUNÉS
Professor of Architecture at School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, 110 Bond Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana, 46556, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
His most recent book is titled The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment.