‘The
State of Designing the Ability to Sustain’ Archizine, Tony Fry, 3 March 2001
A brief review of the
state of the art of sustainable architecture. Argues that no matter what the
architecture looks like or what its purpose, unless it is making a
contribution to the ability to sustain biophysical, social and symbolic
inter-dependent conditions, it is ‘bad architecture’.
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'The Limits of
Sustainable Architecture’, Anne-Marie Willis
A paper that claims the
achievements of ‘sustainable architecture’ remain under-developed
because of failure to take sustainability seriously, the aesthetic agenda of
architecture and the belief that technology will deliver sustainability.
Argues that architecture needs to move from designing structures to designing
‘sustainments’ (environments with the ability to sustain those
things that need to be sustained). Paper delivered at Shaping the
Sustainable Millennium, Queensland University of Technology, July 2000
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‘Archineering
in China-time’ Architectural Theory Review vol 6, no1, Tony Fry, 2001
Paper exploring issues
of time, inter-cultural exchange and how ancient Chinese
architectural/engineering practices might be relevant to today, using the
example of an elaborate water-powered clock and clock tower.
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‘Undoing
the Relation: Image, Sustainability & Architecture’, commissioned for a publication
by Centre for Design at RMIT, Anne-Marie Willis and Tony Fry, 1999
Essay on some of the
problems of attempting to ‘image sustainability’ considered in
the context of architecture’s long-standing and troubled relation to
the-built-as-an-image and to contemporary image-culture more generally.
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