The GreenHouse exhibition presents 12 distinctive, organic architectural projects that successfully dismiss the idea of architecture’s “original sin.” They stand out among other “green” projects, which tend to reduce architecture to such technological devices as utilization of rain water, air purification, use of photovoltaic batteries, and so on.
Technological innovations by themselves are not able to replace architectural aesthetics. No matter how drastically the world will change, no matter what level of technical advancement humanity will achieve, architects will always be confronted with the same eternal and great mission – to strive for harmony between architectural form and landscape, city, society, and nature as a whole.
Architecture begins only there and then, when all construction, technical, social, and other issues have been solved. Its cultural, social, and technological contexts have been changed over time, but its true task remains the same: to give poetic form to the pragmatic.