Bringing together a host of projects charged with shifting cultural and social perceptions of responsible design, Architecture of Change makes a bold case for an era of new humanism in design, an approach that embraces environmental issues without doing away with the shiny, faceted approach that characterises so much modern architecture.
Yet the most prescient projects in the book are those built in developing economies, where raw economics preclude the need for whizzy renders and the end result demonstrates a genuinely frank and forthright way of creating architecture that sits at ease with the landscape. The swing between ultra-sustainable low-tech and all-systems go high-tech is occasionally rather jarring, but at least Architecture of Change can't be accused of presenting a homogenous set of 'green' buildings.
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Architecture of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment, edited by Kristin Feireiss and Lukas Feireiss, Gestalten, £49.90
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