We can go waaaay back and we had a sort of opposite thing going on. The architecture was very far sighted...It’s context was the supernatural metaphysical world or gods and religious

Mythology....or even in some cultures cosmology...since very early modernism or even maybe industrial revolution times we’ve zoomed in the idea of context to very immediate and practical parameters...my prediction is that is not enough anymore...

my prediction is that sustainability will become something more than a spreadsheet LEED cert. it will become less about achieving sustainability and more about celebrating the idea of connectedness with natural world. It will become more about expressing the ideal and less about saving the world. Architecture as a sort of form of communication, like it once was, and less about being a machine for living in. My 2 cents.

Interesting ideas, but I'm having trouble seeing how you can "celebrate the idea of connectedness" without also being sustainable from a technical front. Otherwise you're trampling the idea of connectedness.

You would have to be functionally sustainable, but in an outwardly expressive way. I’m thinking a sort of mash up between Pompidou-esqu celebration of function and sustainability ..

Religion is losing popularity...the need for belief systems is still wired in us however. The obvious example is politics recently taking on an almost tribal and religious role...I’m basically saying that architecture imo should and will eventually become a sort of secular cathedral to nature, cosmology, bigger and bigger things. Context will become expanded. The adjacent street scape, city, etc will not be the limit of context.