Notes
1 Our Common Future, by the World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987 (the “Brundtland Commission”) and the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (sometimes called the Earth Summit) 1992.
2 Jacques Derrida, A Discussion of Architecture, quoted in Aesthetics: a Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, by David Goldblatt and Lee B. Brown, Prentice Hall 2005, 1997, pp 148, 149, ISBN 0-13-112144-8.
3 Plato, The Republic, from The Collected Dialogues of Plato, by Plato, Edith Hamilton (Editor), Huntington Cairns (Editor), Lane Cooper (Translator), Princeton University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-691-09718-6.
4 Ralph Knowles, Sun, Rhythm, Form. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1985, ISBN 026261040X
5 Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture, by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Ingrid D. Rowland (Editor), Thomas Noble Howe (Editor), Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0521553644
6 Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art” as quoted in Poetry, Language and Thought, by Martin Heidegger, translated by Albert Hofstadter, Harper Collins, 1971, ISBN 0-06-093728-9, pp 17-21.
7 http://www.usgbc.org/
8 Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime, quoted in Aesthetics: a Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, by David Goldblatt and Lee B. Brown, Prentice Hall 2005, 1997, p. 128, ISBN 0-13-112144-8.
9 Le Corbusier (Pierre Jeanneret), Towards an Architecture, quoted in Aesthetics: a Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, by David Goldblatt and Lee B. ZBrown, Prentice Hall 2005, 1997, p. 132, ISBN 0-13-112144-8
10 Ibid. p. 132-133.
11 Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas, MIT Press (1972), ISBN 0262220156
12 Robert Venture, Architecture as Decorated Shelter, quoted in Aesthetics: a Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, by David Goldblatt and Lee B. Brown, Prentice Hall 2005, 1997, p. 141.ISBN 0-13-112144-8
13 Lynn Townsend White, in The Historical Roots Of Our Ecological Crisis, 1967 American Association of Science.