JohnJ_7_i

So if you haven't hear by now there is this thing going around in the architecture department. Its called sustainability. Ya its that thing that made your building what it is.
I have rejected joining the sustainability movement and after reading this chapter I know exactly why.

Has anyone seen Al Gore's movie the Inconceivable Truth? It was by far one of the downer movies I've ever seen. His story of the end of the world is near, is repeated over and over by some may lecturers, professors, and environmentalist. I don't want to be told over and over again that by the time that I am 40 that we will have no food, no water, not be able to walk ten feet without running into a natural disaster.

What they should have sold to me are the positives.
The preservations to leave a site untouched except right where the building will be, the way any architect conceives a building in the first place. The use to get natural light into a building, because we all love working under florescent lights all day. The ability to not have to change a light bulb every 2 months but only once every 5 years. The better air quality of the air instead of the photos of lung cancer. or not the last ... The better looking products of wood instead of metal or plastic laminate.

We as architects also have a problem of explaining why we choose to make decisions we do, and its from storytelling that we need to find a way.