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Man […] is a tinkerer. He tinkers with his habitat, while other animals hold their peace with it. They survive by adjusting themselves to natural change during long biological ages-or they perish. Man may perish by his own explosive and insidious inventions. For an adjustment to them he leaves himself precious little time, and progressively less as his technological wizardry runs wild and rushes on. If he is to survive at all, it cannot be through slow adjustment. It will have to be through design more subtly considered and circumspect, through more cautious planning in advance.
Richard Neutra, Architect
From the preface of Survival Through Design, 1954
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs […] Humanity has the ability to make development sustainable
Gro Brundtland
(Politician, diplomat, physician and Chair of United Nations, 1983)
From the Brundtland Report, 1987.
Richard Neutra’s Survival Through Design:
Planning Thinking Design
By Johanna Ferrer Guldager
June 2011.
Richard Neutra: Survival Through Design
Bio-realism, a Concept in the Making
Towards Principles Within the Discipline of Design
Heidegger the Architect, Neutra the Philosopher
The Modern Movement and ‘The Question Concerning Technology’