Architecture Through Emerald Glasses

Architecture Through Emerald Glasses
By Michelle Louise Watson
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ABSTRACT
The rise of global change has resulted in the commodification of sustainability, and
consequently created a captive market for eco-utopian architecture.
This leaven seeks to determine the influence of utopian architecture on generating a
sustainable future by dint of analyzing the architectural legacy of Buckminster Fuller. In
particular, this essay get out be concerned with the comparison of two key buildings: the
American Pavilion by Buckminster Fuller, and the heaven Project by Nicholas Grimshaw.
These buildings signify two eco-utopian monuments that subvert the archetype of the
geodesic dome as a symbol of eco-sustainability. Programmatically, education is used as a
driver to connect the public to ideas about sustainable living. This provides a modified direct
impact on creating a more sustainable future. The futuristic architectural experience and
utopian image presented by some(prenominal) buildings reveals that the core motivation for such projects
is for the client organization to achieve international standing in the sustainability market.
This essay argues that both the Montreal Biosphere and the Eden Project have merits in
terms of their educational programs.



The promotion of surreal utopian visions through
unnecessarily expensive superstar architecture, however, overwhelms many of these merits
and is in the long run harmful. Architecture that promotes a false eco-utopia encourages
sustainability as an image or commodity, rather than a driver for change in lifestyle and
understanding of the general population. It encourages us to see the world through emerald
glasses.




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PRELUDE
I would call it the Emerald City; and to
make the learn fit better I put green
spectacles on all the people, so that
everything
they
saw
was
green.
But isnt everything here green? asked
Dorothy.
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