A Critical Piece by STAR Strategies + Architecture
A little while ago, I wrote about the issues of modern green-washing in architecture, and further about the disingenous nature of the "sustainable" UTS Business Building. Part of this is due to the difficulties in measuring and evaluating sustainability, leading to systems that can be easily manipulated to provide results that are higher than deserved. Recently, the Rotterdam based design team "STAR Strategies + Architecture" has published a criticism of green-washing, and the modern view of sustainability as a whole. Titled "O'Mighty Green", the publication compares the modern obsession with sustainability with an almost religious worship, suggesting that sustainability has become a "Green God". It asserts that the colour green has become representative of all sustainability, pushed to a ridiculous level where "Green proves to work as the quickest and easiest representation of sustainability" - regardless of what may lie undernea
