The most important precedent to my thesis is the Bedzed Complex built in 2002 by Bill Dunster; an architect from London. The building is designed for efficiency and sustainability. It was not an intensional masterpiece of form and color but instead a complete and beneficial design of function and rationality. This kind of design was not so much of sketching intricate concepts and creating a piece of art. I believe there is a day and a time where creative design was very important. The modernest movement with Corbusier brought out discoveries of efficiencies and "Compactness". In the Cite de Radiouse, Corbusier used architectural design to create efficiencies of modular organization. The architectural designs of the time were important to discovering something we still use today.
So what is the most crucial point that an architects must discover and design for today?
EFFICIENCY. As Corbusier solved problems of urban design many years ago, today architects must solve and address the issue of energy consumption and sustainability in todays time. Buckminster Fuller was designing to solve for these real time problems in his modular ideas and structural innovations of the geodesic dome. The Bedzed complex and the Philip Merrill Environmental are building that address real time issues. Some architects today are still hung up on past time affairs, still trying to make a sculptural express of function, and literally do nothing for our planet with overwhelming energy consumption. This issues we are in today can be solved in architecture...
"The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth."
-Olmsted
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