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Over time, the buildings got taller and bigger, our engineering even better, so that the mechanical systems were massive.
They give off a lot of heat into the atmosphere, and for some of you may understand the heat island effect in cities, where the urban areas are much more warm than the adjacent rural areas, but we also have problems that, when we lose power, we can't open a window here, and so the buildings are uninhabitable and have to be made vacant until that air conditioning system can start up again.
Even worse, with our intention of trying to make buildings move towards a net-zero energy state, we can't do it just by making mechanical systems more and more efficient.
You look through them and the world you see is augmented with data: names of places, monuments, buildings, maybe one day even the names of the strangers that pass you on the street.
Joel is a New Yorker, and his studio for many years was in Chelsea, with a straight view downtown to the World Trade Center, and he photographed those buildings in every sort of light.
We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not every earthquake brings buildings down.
In my case it was aunts who lived in all of these tenement buildings.
I don't know how many of you are New Yorkers, but there were these tenement buildings, and these women were always hanging out one of the windows, leaning on a pillow.
We asked people, "Do you want this action, and to have buildings painted like that?"
We demolished more than 5,000 illegal buildings all over the city, up to eight stories high, the tallest of them.
Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes.
A lot of buildings are operated this way, probably where you work, and companies do this to save money on their energy bill.
Another example of the impact of glass buildings on the life of birds.
In the U.S. alone, a billion birds die in collision with glass buildings.
Put them together, and we're seeing a wave of astonishing breakthroughs, like robots that do factory work or run as fast as a cheetah or leap tall buildings in a single bound.
I'm an MIT professor, but I do not design buildings or computer systems.
The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings.
Buildings are important, but they're only a component of a much bigger picture.
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.
For example, if, in that Bucky-inspired phrase, we draw back and we look at planet Earth, and we take a kind of typical, industrialized society, then the energy consumed would be split between the buildings, 44 percent, transport, 34 percent, and industry.
If you looked at the buildings together with the associated transport, in other words, the transport of people, which is 26 percent, then 70 percent of the energy consumption is influenced by the way that our cites and infrastructure work together.
So the problems of sustainability cannot be separated from the nature of the cities, of which the buildings are a part.
How does it affect the design of buildings?
And particularly, how can it lead to the creation of buildings which consume less energy, create less pollution and are more socially responsible?
That story, in terms of buildings, started in the late '60s, early '70s.
And what they were saying on this occasion was that our competitors had to build new buildings for the new technology.
But meanwhile, as you know, wonderful protagonists like Al Gore are noting the inexorable rise in temperature, set in the context of that, interestingly, those buildings which are celebratory and very, very relevant to this place.
And unlike conventional buildings, the top of the building is celebratory.
The first is, I think we need to question this idea that architecture is about making buildings.
It's actually how we built buildings for hundreds of years before the Industrial Revolution in these sorts of community barn-raisings.
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