In a rather enjoyable yet confusing keynote speech in 2013, Chiliean architect Alejandro Aravena proclaimed that the key to sustainability would be achieved “in this generation, more psychiatrists, in the next generation, more breasts.” (ArchDaily, 2013). It was also for me, not at all evident in the commencement what the connection to therapy and breasts sustainability would have, and so I have decided to use this blog to decode his alternative explanation for achieving sustainable construction.
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It is of course hardly possible to discuss the entire one and a half hour lecture, as a result, I have for this post decided only to focus on the first half hour of the lecture, with a partial focus on my personal experience as an inhabitant of Hong Kong, exploring some of the ideas Prof. Ricky Burdett triggered with regard to my opinions of sustainability and the human experience.
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