Precis 12!! You should read this!!

In case you all threw the first post out due to its subject title...

        _Precis #12_

A student journal of GSAPP here is attempting a topical issue this time
'round. The topic: Sustainable/Environmental Design.

What I want to do here in this venue is collect all of your thoughts on
how this title is defined, prioritized, marginalized, and generally
considered or not.

I will compile this into a pseudo-conference format report
and publish it in the next issue(12) and here on design-l, so you know
how I twisted your words(just kidding). I will use your e-mail addresses
as names and so on. It could be interesting based on other threads that
have gone unravelled here. So if you want your chance to tell us, the
students here, what you think we are doing wrong/right, this is it, but you
have to argue it through this framing of the topic. Readership seems
pretty good as it is free and distributed to all desks.

Entries should be made ASAP as deadline for submittal is April 12 or
16th, don't remember exactly.

For starters:
1. Dave, how does the priority of locating the parking address this topic?
2. Marco, how do cave paintings express this topic?
3. spN, is hyper-surface a sustainable condition?
4. John, what is your take on natural forces as a design method, i.e.
biological models of morphological transformation or recycling through
the trash heaps on Staten Island?
5. Carolyn, what is going on at USC about this topic?
6. Seppanen, how does bent wood address replenshing resources?
7. Rashid, what is the power source for architextures?

scott

also, I can try to publish this survey that the editor sent out to the
students about this topic, but I thought it was too much of the editor's
uninformed hype-driven opinion in there to answer accurately.
enjoy