ABSTRACT
The greening of architecture is both a concept and practice of the ongoing process and continual renement toward greater architectural and urban responses to the environment. This process has many dimensions that cover both space and time as well as dierent intensities from remedies of unsustainability, to maintaining sustainable balances, and nally to creating benevolent abundances. The patterns of change through the past ve decades give an indication to the areas of unsustainability and correspondence between the evolving greening methods and the changes in contemporary architecture-both of which have been moving targets. The global disposition of green architectural and urban works is a prelude to the potential pervasiveness of this phenomenon. Signature architects still play an important role in this maturation process by providing exciting, innovative and inspiring models. Yet, it is the architecture of the everyday that is still in most need of attention. James Wines concludes in his book Green Architecture (2000) that “architecture still has one of the most important conservation and communication roles to play in any new ecologically responsible vision of the future.”2 Design education, too, will play a critical role in the future greening of architecture.
