Architecture Publications
Title
Campus Units
Architecture
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
1-9-2020
Journal or Book Title
Critical Practices in Architecture: The Unexamined Edited by Jonathan Bean, Susannah Dickinson and Aletheia Ida
Volume
Chapter 10
First Page
209
Last Page
228
Abstract
From what perspective can the aesthetic dimension impact on our way of thinking about an environmentally responsible and socially just future? This chapter reflects upon an exhibition of instructors of architecture, and their students, at the Venice Biennale in 2018, exploring such a question. In the theory and practice of sustainable design, little attention has been given to architectural aesthetics dismissed either as a superficial concern in comparison to the serious matter of sustainability, or worse, as an attempt at “green-wash” or to deceive. As climate change brings with it the burden of change in plant, animal and human relationships, ecological systems respond unpredictably. A dialogue is needed to establish a reconnection to concern but what exactly might this relationship be with the living environment and its systems? The scholarly question this chapter thus asks is “How can we understand an ecological architectural aesthetics within the field of sustainable architectural design?”
Copyright Owner
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wheeler, Andrea S., "Kites" (2020). Architecture Publications. 112.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/arch_pubs/112
Included in
Architectural History and Criticism Commons, Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis Commons, Environmental Design Commons
Comments
This accepted book chapter is published as Wheeler, A., Kites in Critical Practices in Architecture: The Unexamined Edited by Jonathan Bean, Susannah Dickinson and Aletheia Ida. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2020, Chapter 10; 209-228. Posted with permission.