ARCHITCTURE
ARCHITCTURE
ARCHITECTURE
Has Sustainability Become a Luxury?
Many of the communities now being studied as examples of sustainable living never set out to be sustainable. They were simply building and living within their means and local resources. Yet when the same principles enter the formal industry, they often become products, certifications, and premium services. Perhaps the question is whether we are trying to engineer sustainability into society, when in many cases society already knew how to live sustainably before we engineered it out. Maybe the industry didn’t invent sustainability — it just rediscovered it, packaged it, and made it expensive.
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