| Toward a Sustaining Architecture for the 21st Century |
in Industry & Environment, Vol. 26, No. 2-3 (April-Sept 2003)
UN Environment Programme |
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| "Cradle-to-cradle design is an ecologically intelligent approach to architecture and industry that creates materials, buildings and patterns of settlement that are wholly healthful and restorative. Unlike cradle-to-grave systems, cradle-to-cradle design sees human systems as nutrient cycles in which every material can support life." |
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| Principles, Practices & Sustainable Design: Toward a New Context for Building Codes |
in Perspecta 35 - Building Codes
Yale School of Architecture, 2004 |
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| "Contemporary architecture, on a grand scale, is depleting the earth's assets and turning them into liabilities. It's well known, for example, that the waste flows generated by the construction and maintenance of new buildings rival those of the entire manufacturing sector of the global economy. We know, too, that many of the materials used in today's buildings are harmful to human health and that conventional building designs can wreak havoc on local ecology. In this context, is meeting conventional codes enough? Are low standards of any kind acceptable?" |
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| A Building Like a Tree, A Campus Like A Forest |
in Connection, (Summer 2002)
New England Board of Higher Education |
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| "What legacy is today’s campus architecture leaving for the future? Like other regions, development on many New England campuses over the past 30 years has tended to be more random than planned. Following the same patterns of sprawl that have defined most development in our era, the placement of new campus buildings often separated them from the life of the university, while a hodgepodge of architectural styles clashed with the vocabulary of the historic quad. Lost, or diminished, is a fundamental asset of academic life in New England: the experience of community on a campus uniquely and beautifully attuned to its surroundings. In recent years, an evolving understanding of the environmental impacts of new buildings has further separated campus architecture from a legacy universities can wholeheartedly embrace." |
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| A Field of Dreams: Green Roofs, Ecological Design and the Future of Urbanism |
from Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construction
EarthPledge (Schiffer Publishing, 2004) |
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| "I am strolling in a field listening to crickets and watching birds pluck insects from the dirt. Wildflowers bend in the wind. Warblers and thrushes flit about in tall native grasses and soar over the rolling terrain. The scene is rich, beautiful, lively, delightful-some might say wild. But this landscape is also a cultural space: I am standing on top of a building." |
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| Foreword to Big & Green |
from Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
David Gissen, National Building Museum (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003) |
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| "As the twentieth century came to a close, most new buildings were so divorced from their surroundings that the Wall Street Journal devoted a front page feature story to an office building with windows one could actually open. When operable windows make news and set a design standard, we have reached an astonishingly low point in architecture." |
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