This week's issue of the NYT Magazine is dedicated to Eco-tecture. Lots of good articles, including Ouroussoff's praise for european enviro leadership, a profile of the urban splendor that is Curitiba, the wiseman isolation of Glen Murcut and a massive spread on Shigeru Ban. For Ban, green or sustainable architecture is therefore about more than saving energy or using recycled materials. It�s about people�s emotional connection to the buildings they occupy, and about making buildings that may have different identities at different times. Some buildings, he says, should be built as disposable. They can still be green so long as they don�t require more energy to take down than they did to put up.. Also: Shigeru Ban's Artek pavilion at Milan
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On similar topic, French landscape architect —and green party mayor of his commune— Gilles Clément announces that because of Sarko's election, he will no longer serve the state, nor the man who "is endangering liberty, creativity and culture". French resistance in action... Interview in French.
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