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By: Dorthea Montaine

Dorthea Montaine — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:48:44 +0000

For decades, architects have been searching for a theme, style or identity. In many respects, we have failed because we lacked a concept, a base from which to gain inspiration to transcend the ordinary.

Oh, experimenting with the limits of what can be reated with new materials has given photoraphers something to capture for architectural magazines, but has desecrated the landscape for the ordinary person. Yes, it is “awesome” in its own distorted way, like an off-color joke makes us laugh even as we blush, but cannot produce iner pride and sense of fulfillment that genuinely Great Architecture gives.

Now we have something to help us inspire greatness: environmental balance and a tribute to nature. I so hope architects of today can give our cities creations of beauty that function to give us hope for a future on this planet!

By: Dorthea Montaine

Dorthea Montaine — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:38:45 +0000

Emilio Ambasz designs Great Architecture that is Green from its soul. He manages to use his dedication to ecologically sensitive architecture to enhance his designs, and gives us visions that are as beautiful as they are practical. He proves Great and Green can achieve what has been all but lost in our “modern” world.

To design “green” buildings should be as second nature to an adequate architect as designing buildings that are structurally sound. Only when an architect uses environmental responses to inform a design to transcend the ordinary do we experience Great Architecture – sadly very seldom in today’s world.

All Great Architecture in the past has been created in response to a need greater than a single person’s ego, such as glorifying God, celebrating community, etc. Today, we have a need to fulfill – survival – that green buildings can help us satisfy. Hopefully, using this inspirational source will give our age a direction to, once again, create architecture that transcends the ordinary, without resorting to garish tricks or distortions that insult neighborhoods and intellects. Hopefully, soon we will be proposing buildings that make us glad to be alive and promote our ability to survive on this planet.

It can be done. Emilio Ambasz is doing it.

By: Joe Kovesdy

Joe Kovesdy — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:22:52 +0000

As the demand for LEED-certified residences increases, so will the aesthetic compromises. With our sluggish housing market, I think architects hired to design green buildings will have more time to create beautiful designs we can admire. In Phoenix, for example, we are seeing new buildings which show a balance between good design and sustainability.

By: Joe Kovesdy

Joe Kovesdy — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:22:00 +0000

By: A KNESAL

A KNESAL — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:43:57 +0000

“Great architecture and green architecture are one and the same—you cannot have one without the other.”

?……..Clearly we can, and have historically. It’s just ‘Clearly’ now and always has been irresponsible.

4000 sq. ft. for two carbon units? I don’t care how ‘Green’ or carefully or beautifully designed that space is, that kind of irresponsibility negates all the positives.

By: A KNESAL

A KNESAL — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:43:00 +0000

“Great architecture and green architecture are one and the same—you cannot have one without the other.”

?……..Clearly we can, and have historically. It’s just ‘Clearly’ now and always has been irresponsible.

4000 sq. ft. for two carbon units? I don’t care how ‘Green’ or carefully or beautifully designed that space is, that kind of irresponsibility negates all the positives.