From sustainable architecture to live projects: reflections on 'three ways of practising sustainable architecture'

摘要

Graham Farmer's paper in arq 17/2 (pp. 106-119) provides valuable insights into four main themes of sustainable architecture within a larger theoretical context than is often recognised within both the architectural profession and design educators at large. These four themes are: 1. 'Design as politics': we have a choice to see sustainability as both a human-led and social process as well as a tool that leads to technical innovation; 2. Two views of design: the technical and the aesthetic.