“I don’t think sustainability is a design aesthetic, any more than having electricity in your building, or telephones, or anything else … In 10 years we’re not going to talk about sustainability anymore, because it’s going to be built into the core processes of architecture.” Advertising sustainability will be like an architect getting up in front of a room to “proudly proclaim how his buildings didn’t fall down.”

Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, on making sustainability part of basic training for architects

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