ABSTRACT
Postmodern green design expanded in the 1990s to encompass new and improved environmental technologies that boldly expressed and blended into contemporary architecture. The impetus was less about historic and contextual integrity, and more about tectonic expression of form. Sustainable technologies were no longer seen as crude and awkward bedfellows of a building, but rather they were elevated to the same level of consideration, expression and detail as other technologies in architecture. High-tech gained momentum and was being informed by structural, sustainable technologies, and with the interest in greater levels of transparency, light-mass construction, and innovations in glazing systems provided the opportunity for further expression of the “bones” of a building. Engineering and architecture were fusing together. The proclamation of this time was that architecture should naturally be designed sustainably and normalized within the characteristic constraints and parameters of a given project: green should become standard practice.
