Are you interested in the aesthetics of sustainable architecture?
Summary of the article titled Aesthetics of sustainability and architecture: An overview from 2020 by Aurelija Daugelaite and Indre Grazuleviciute-Vileniske, published in the Urban Studies journal.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether the aesthetics of sustainable architecture is distinguishable. This article investigates the question of sustainability aesthetics and the ways that it is expressed in the field of architecture.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

It is important to investigate how important are social, psychological and especially, aesthetic aspects of the sustainability architecture.
Aesthetics is supposed to sense and eternalise the identity of the historical period and the society and newer concepts of aesthetics combine beauty, harmony, grandeur, tragedy, heroism, irony, etc.
It is possible to create architecture as an attractive carbon free product which can literally be an advertisement for the alternative lifestyles and show that reduction in consumption does not necessarily mean a reduction in quality.

You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Sustainable development ‒ development that meets the needs of the present-day societies without compromising the possibilities of the future societies to meet their needs – became the predominant paradigm of planning policies. This concept with its environmental, social, economic and cultural dimensions has been applied to the field of architecture since the end of the 20th century. However, numerous researchers still notice techno-logical and ecological orientation of sustainable architecture and the lack of attention to its cultural, place-based and aesthetics aspects. The ques-tion may be asked if it is possible to distinguish the aesthetics of sustainable architecture. Thus, this research analyses the question of sustainability aesthetics and the ways that it is expressed in the field of architecture. In order to reach this aim: the quantitative and qualitative literature review on the questions of sustainability aesthetics and sustainability aesthetics in architecture was performed; the discussion of the notion of sustainability aesthetics and the aesthetic trends of sustainable architecture was developed based on the results of literature analysis.
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