Experiments and utopias of a sustainable architecture

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Alessandro Rocca
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2022/103
Language English Pages 5 P. 84-88 File size 235 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2023-103015
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Sustainable architecture is a recent paradigm that reclassifies experiences and orients them into a new narrative. It is not always easy to go beyond the ideological and propaganda dimension of the sustainable idea and converting it into an operating parameter in the architectural project is a complicated step. The text proposes the analysis of some notable works and courageous strategies, also applied in developing societies, to lead sustainable mythologies into the bed of architectural design’s technical and political tools. The examples, attempts, and successes of the recent past are not few, and it is crucial to analyze and remember them; it is from them that the resources of an architecture ready to face the challenges of the present come.

Keywords: sustainable architecture; humanitarian architecture; architectural design

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Alessandro Rocca, Experiments and utopias of a sustainable architecture in "TERRITORIO" 103/2022, pp 84-88, DOI: 10.3280/TR2023-103015