UFFELEN
- Are Uffelen’s historical examples and attention to materials regarding environment friendly technology convincing?
The second paragraph of Uffelen’s article seems to indicate that there are lots of environmentally friendly technologies that have been around for some time. However his examples did not include conservation of resources and energy as the main objective. For example, he goes on to describe some very “non-environmental” approaches –such as the king reusing the columns of the Greek emperors at great expense for transporting them but with high political advantage.
2. Is sustainability put as a priority above style or structural function in the United States?
It would seem the United States has reached a point where sustainability is just beginning to merge style with structural function. As he points out, we are not putting photovoltaic on every slanted roof, but placing them instead with a consideration to the architectural appeal. He gave numerous examples of how sustainability is being taken much more seriously in our current times and stated that this is due to the more widely held acceptance of global warming.