Form follows worldview

摘要

To progress towards sustainability requires a much broader approach than almost all architects and academics acknowledge, drawing on areas of expertise and experience typically not touched upon in architectural education. This useful book discusses how architectural education might expand to address the complexities of sustainability, drawing on Integral theory (described in The Big Rethink series published in the AR last year and this) to ensure rigour and, by highlighting areas still often overlooked, comprehensiveness. So, for instance, the usual 'triple bottom line' of ecology, economy and equity expands to include experience and become the 'quadruple bottom line'. (In Integral theory's AQAL diagram, ecology and economy clearly belong to the objective Right Hand quadrants while equity largely belongs to the cultural, Lower Left Hand quadrant and experience is clearly in the Upper Left Hand quadrant.)