Quotes On Sustainability

From Green Architecture (2000):

The most impressive examples of architectural iconography and municipal planning usually relate to a fully resolved integration of social structure, governmental policy, religious rituals, and people’s relationship to the environment. It invariably reveals a strong motivating philosophy that has inspired and sustained a culture… (p. 35)

…the next stage of architectural development - in fact, the challenge to all green designers - should be integration of buildings within their context as seamless fusions of each other; as syntheses of ecological processes already in place, and as monitors of people’s subliminal reactions to environmental signs and signals, which can then be translated into billboards of the collective unconscious. (p. 88)