Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! As it stands now (an infant, effectively), this blog is a venue for me to share my critical essays, thoughts, and tips in the realm of green architecture. I believe that sustainable architecture should become a mainstream practice (hence the title of this blog) but I am only realistically optimistic for this to come to fruition; this blog is, in essence, a venue to explore the idea of building green.

I am a college student studying Art History and Psychology, and I have a passion for architecture and urban planning. I am an avid podcast listener and an insatiable reader/researcher.

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The realm of architecture is changing. Sustainability is moving to the mainstream and is transforming the conceptualization of the practice, itself. Architecture is now backed into a corner— in large part due to high energy prices and the burgeoning demands of the phenomenally fast growth in China and India—the green building movement has challenged the field to change the way buildings relate to the environment. From an engineering standpoint, this poses one set of problems about water management systems, passive solar heating, and indoor air quality; in architecture, the problem posed also relates to aesthetics.

Architecture is ‘the unavoidable art,’ and our built environment is a physical legacy of the expression of our time. We must be aware that the buildings we erect today are critical on aesthetic and functional levels. Modeling with the 'building as machine' metaphor will no longer sustain us.