William W. Braham > Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“The architectural profession has struggled to develop forms of environmental accounting that can guide the design process without overly burdening or complicating it.”
― William W. Braham, Architecture and Systems Ecology: Thermodynamic Principles of Environmental Building Design, in three parts