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(Ut)opiates: Rethinking Nature
Author(s) -
LópezDurán Fabiola,
Moore Nikki
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1161
Subject(s) - eugenics , race (biology) , balance (ability) , architecture , environmental ethics , romance , sociology , sustainability , environmentalism , law , aesthetics , philosophy , political science , history , politics , art , gender studies , literature , ecology , psychology , archaeology , neuroscience , biology
Much of what is currently regarded as ‘green’ is predicated on a pre‐modern, even Romantic, notion of nature; with sustainable design often overtly seeking to readdress the balance in nature by countering man's destructive forces. Here, Fabiola López‐Durán and Nikki Moore pursue a more nuanced view of sustainability and architecture through a lineage of ideas, embedded within Lamarckian eugenics ‐ the early 20th‐century movement that sought the advancement of the human race through the transformation of the environment. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.