Architecture and Energy Quotes

“In these modes, energy is at best regarded by architects as a set of necessary quantifications, bureaucratic mandates, and checklists rather than as a fundamental agent in novel formations of architecture.”
― William W. Braham, Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style

“Although building science has been taught in schools of architecture for quite some time, the knowledge and understanding it encompasses are still not part of students’ and architects’ cognitive framework and design intuition.”
― William W. Braham, Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style

“Energy efficiency is a tactic for slowing the process of overshooting environmental limits, but the urgent work facing our civilization is to use the time we gain to build richer, more resilient kinds of buildings that serve the common good.”
― William W. Braham, Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style