STATEMENTS

Designing a building as a spectacular, ‘experimental’ object is a waste of resources by definition. The concept of architecture, as a proliferation of free-standing objects is an anathema. Instead buildings should be subtly integrated into both the contingent topography and the vicissitudes of the climate. One should conceive of a building not only programmatically but also in terms of the energy it consumes which means not only the energy used in mediating the climate but also the energy embodied in the production of the material from which it is made. However one cannot reduce the issue of sustainability solely to a technological question. As far as architecture is concerned, a building should be sustainable in a cultural as well as in a technical sense, which returns one to the pre-industrial standards of vernacular building and to the paradoxical relationship between tradition and innovation. I believe there is no significant innovation without tradition and that there is no living tradition without innovation. Kenneth Frampton

We can 't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein