This issue of (?) developed out of a desire to reignite a creative and highly contemporary response to ecology in architecture. Over the last decade or so, there has been a real danger that the widespread adoption of sustainable codes and government policies has become a straitjacket for designers - an imposition rather than a productive force. It has become a matter of ticking off boxes for green building validation rather than engaging with wider ecological thinking and solutions.rnThe treatment of this theme was first propagated a couple of years back in New York through a conversation with guest-editor Lydia Kallipoliti. As a PhD candidate at Princeton University, Lydia Kallipoliti had developed an enthusiasm for the ecological content of (?) in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which was fuelled by her involvement in Beatriz Colomina's Clip/Stamp/Fold project on the radical small magazine. In the introduction to this issue, Kallipoliti describes how EcoRedux simultaneously draws inspiration from those pioneering days of ecological design in the early 1970s while developing a distinct stance and a clear set of its own preoccupations.
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