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Tag Archives: William McDonough
The Ranks of Green Architects
Though not currently in the spotlight of the political arena of climate change, buildings hold an undeniable position as one of the largest opportunities to change our society towards a course of sustainability. The government (or at least the parts of it that want to address sustainability on a national level) has fixated themselves on power production, trying to pass regulation to put a price on carbon emissions that would most directly affect electric utility companies. This is certainly a way to go, but focusing on the opposite end of the power supply, the end users, is also a perfectly viable way to reduce our energy load and carbon emissions.
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Brad Pitt, Andres Duany, and Aesthetic Diversity: Why There’s Room for Everyone in the New N’awlins
The New Orleans that was swept away when the levees broke cannot be restored. A new New Orleans is rising—it cannot be otherwise. Isn’t it possible that in this new New Orleans there is room for Frank Gehry and Andres Duany? For the experimental and the traditional? For the future and the past? Can’t this new New Orleans be a city that retells the stories of its forebears while crafting new tales of its own? It has been a long time since New Orleans had anything new to add to the larger discussion of American urbanism. A long time since the national spotlight shone on it for reasons other than crime, poverty, catastrophe, or the musical achievements of the past.
History should never be forgotten, but neither should it be made into a golden calf. Cities need to breathe, they need to periodically remake themselves. As long as the people remaking New Orleans remain in service to the city’s most vulnerable residents, New Orleans wins. Architects win. Design wins. Creativity wins. Experimentation wins. A new vernacular arises alongside the old. Continue reading
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