Dustin Altschul

“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

“Rather than be characterized as a technocratic burden to be satisfied, energy can, and should, help architecture finally and powerfully fulfill the terms of its ambitions: form, space, technology, program, and urbanism.”
― Kiel Moe, Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy

“Professional life requires that one live with the tension of using technology and remembering to distrust it.”
― Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents

“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