Stemming the Loss of Heritage and/or Sparing the Environment. What’s Embodied Energy Got to Do With It?
Mies van der Rohe, Chicago apartment towers, 1951
Background– The other Saturday I was in NYC attending a day-long symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation program’s founding in the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia. A good share of the program assumed the climate-preserving virtue …