HOPES[20]: Architecture and Ecology as a Whole System
A lecture by Jeff Stein, Cosanti Foundation.
As president of the Cosanti Foundation, responsible for the ongoing design and construction and construction of the urban laboratory Arcosanti, Jeff Stein believes, "The city is the greatest tool yet invented for humans to meet, learn, experience each other and exchange ideas, goods and services." For his lecture at HOPES[20], Stein will describe the work of integrating architecture and ecology at Arcosanti, to demonstrate the kind of alternative human habitat— frugal, car-free, producing food and energy and close, connected human relationships— we might hope to populate as we come to the end of the age of cheap fossil rules and unprecedented prosperity. The work is not just about building form, but how form modulates building performance. And neither form nor performance is only about energy, but rather they are about creating lovable spaces that connect people to each other and to their surroundings.