ABSTRACT
Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reects, contributed to the cause and necessity of a burgeoning green process that emerged over the past half century. According to Julien de Smedt (JDS Architects), “There’s a denition problem: ‘Green’ and ‘Sustainability,’ the terms used to name the answer to the most pressing problem of our time, have become dangerously aoat in ambiguity and indeterminacy. Sustainable architecture is everywhere and nowhere.”1 For the purpose of this discussion, sustainability is dened as the greening of architecture through accumulative reduction over time of negative environmental eects and unsustainable activities caused by buildings, urban designs and settlements.
