Re-Use Aesthetics and the Architectural Roots of Ecological Crisis

/ Resources: Publication Re-Use Aesthetics and the Architectural Roots of Ecological Crisis RE-USE AESTHETICS AND THE ARCHITECTURAL ROOTS OF ECOLOGICAL CRISIS Ben Sweeting Contribution to The Pedagogies of Re-Use, edited by Duncan Baker-Brown and Graeme Brooker, a volume that documents an online summer school in 2021 in which over 100 participants considered architectural propositions responding […]

ARCHITECTURE, ECOLOGY, AND HUBRIS

/ Resources: Publication ARCHITECTURE, ECOLOGY, AND HUBRIS Architecture, Ecology, Hubris Ben Sweeting In the context of the emerging environmental consciousness of the 1960s and 1970s, cybernetician Gregory Bateson identified one root cause of ecological crisis as Western culture’s hubristic tendency to see humans as separate from, above, and in competition with the environments on which […]