Studio Theory Hour

I found the lecture on sustainability and architecture 2030 to be very interesting. i like the way the speaker talked about humans being a storm and i found that it is a very good point that nothing can be constructive without being somewhat destructive aswell.

the speaker talked about the founder of architecture 2030. his name is edward mazria. the concept was adopted by the aia. the concept is to have fossil fuel reduction starting at 50% now, 60% by 2010, 70%by 2015 80%by 2020 90% by 2025 and 100% by 2030 which is why it is called architecture 2030. the idea is to produce as much carbon as we use.

One of the main points made was to get energy and carbon from sustainable sources like water, wind and the sun, these sources will never run out and they are free.

Another point of the lecture i found to be interesting was the idea that the greenest buildings are the ones that already exist. this was followed up by the idea of "long life loose fit" which means we need to create buildings that will be here for a long time and will be able to acomidate things that it was intentionally built for. if we create a building that can only be used for one certain thing then what good will it do us in the future.

In the lecture the speaker talked about different organizations like LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) which focuses on green building. it was interesting to learn about the proximity hotel