Can we today shape environments capable of responding even in an extreme way to contemporary needs and values and fostering biodiversity, the reduction of climate change and sustainable development starting from the reflection on existing cities both in a physical and cultural sense? Can we produce more sustainable and “green” architectures without their expression necessarily being that of technological performance? Can we affirm without nostalgia or shyness that one of the most important tools of environmental sustainability is the duration over time of spaces and buildings, referring both to their collective?
Bovenbouw Architectuur/Dirk Somers (Antwerp), LAN/Umberto Napolitano (Paris), Lynch Architects/Patrick Lynch (London) all interpret a new direction of research in a specific way by designing buildings and spaces that are always different in relation to individual occasions and programs, yet all endowed with a gentle urbanity and with a sustainability capable of reflecting on their economy of means, on their integration to the context and on their duration in time.