Preparing for the “Inconvenient Truth”
“What will architecture students and architects need to grapple with the effects of global warming and speak “inconvenient truth” to power?” asks Contributing Editor Michael J. Crosbie, PhD, AIA. He tells us that the recent Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Administrators Conference, hosted by the University of Minnesota, may have glimpsed some answers.
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Congressman Earl Blumenauer(D-Ore.) was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. A staunch advocate of the architecture profession and built environment, the congressman is committed to promoting livable communities at the federal level.
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In his new book, Architecture of the Absurd, John Silber, Hon. AIA, argues that form meant to please one’s self (or one’s theoretician cronies) is architecturally irresponsible. Whimsy is okay, he opines (he lauds Gaudí), but, as he states in his subtitle, “‘genius’ disfigured a practical art.”
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