Facing Habitat Change - Habitat's psyche
Meanwhile, fellow architects happily play with digital images, ignoring tectonic and structural concepts, architectural principles, proportions, local materials (to avoid transport pollution) and disregarding passive energy, an issue already solved in the mid sixties. Absurd discussions organized in the Internet and for the Internet produce the illusion of a green attitude. The use of greenish pixels in digital drawings gives the impression of ecological preoccupation. A scientific knowledge of materials and production processes is needed. Architecture practices play with unreal and inconsistent ideas. This fascination with technology and sparkling virtuality reached a point where built forms try to impersonate digital images. For centuries it was the other way round: hand-made drawings showed intentions and the spirit (not a final processed object), therefore, built architecture was richer. In the name of progress new expensive polluting materials and software controlled devices are adopted, produced and sold by a wild marketing. Electric fittings and remote-activated appliances are anti-ecological: in general, we just need levers. High-tech materials tend to be are harmful, their production process contaminates. We cannot expect much from banks, nor from corporations or state governments. Frank Lloyd Wright used to say that a government is a bureaucratic structure of employees with neither capacity nor interest for understanding. Some individuals started to alert society about this without realizing that the Internet, a mimic reality, transforms information in ideology, precluding any genuine free reasoning and thinking. Habitat has a fragile "psyche". Information is crucial to anticipate scenarios, still to face Habitat Change we need precise and verified knowledge. Climate could be changing because of us, for the first time; therefore it will never be possible to assess a final scientific conclusion (an experiment must be made, observed and analyzed many times). Although the scientific community has enough data to appraise this conclusion. Moreover, we do not have any choice. To understand this "psyche" is a challenge. (page 2 of 5)

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