Green Architecture for the Future

A sustainable future calls for new inventions, materials, processes and complex architectural methods in the built-up environment. For sustainable architecture is a far more complex matter than rainwater collection and solar cells. That is why the architecture of tomorrow is inextricably bound up with the exploration of new scientific and technological frontiers.

The new requirements for the composition of the materials are reflected in the final architectural product, and this expands and transforms the framework of what we understand by a house. Perhaps the materials of the house change with the seasons, or courtyard gardens are built up with green recycled glass from wine bottles.

If architecture is to be sustainable throughout, from the smallest screw to the roof of a skyscraper, it is not possible to reproduce a particular style and spread it all over the world like modernism’s white cubes and quadratic spaces. The exhibition will show how some of these changes are manifested in both down-to-earth and more sophisticated projects that together fulfill the human and technological visions of society.

Architectural sustainability means taking one’s point of departure in the environment to such an extent that the buildings are created for the specific environment, with due allowances for specific climatic conditions like sun, wind and compass orientation.

The thematic exhibition was divided into three sections – The City, Climate & Comfort and Metabolism – also reflected in the Louisiana Sculpture Park with structures that physically and tangibly underscored the individual themes.

The exhibition Green Architecture for the Future is part of the Louisiana’s exhibition series Frontiers of Architecture I-IV, which is being shown in the years up to 2011; a series of exhibitions that shed light on new and alternative architectural movements in the force-field between science and architecture. When it comes to the development of sustainable cities, landscapes and environments the architect does not stand alone, and the growing cross-disciplinary approach to architectural practice is pushing forward what we regard as the frontiers of architecture.