Throughout history the ideas comprising what should be the correct expression of architecture has varied depending on the spirit of the age. The Modernists were looking for order in a newly globalized community, the postmodernists were (at a rudimentary level) reacting against what they saw as a negative cultural diffusion. The architecture of today is what is needed and what is needed are jobs for the layman, housing for the layman's family, and above all environmental responsibility. I haven't fooled myself into thinking that my beliefs regarding architecture are universal and won't be disregarded with time but I am sure that sustainable and responsible design is and needs to increasingly become the focal point of our era. Historian's will (hopefully) look back at us and characterize us as the great turning point in environmental and communal responsibility that has disappeared since the industrial revolution.
Donovan Rypkema leads the way with his brutally honest speech that will have you an acolyte in no time. Please have a read by checking it out over at BluePlanetGreenLiving.com
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