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Article: Green buildings need sharp-eyed architecture critics: 'like other journalists, architecture critics need to be inquisitive and skeptical about what they see.'.(Journalist's Trade)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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When writing about energy issues as an architecture critic, it's hard to know whether I am tackling the topic as a story about science, a political cause, a fad or religion. These days energy innovations in buildings are frequently portrayed by developers and politicians as "green design" and "smart growth," but within these movements, factions are as apt to be led by marketers, preachers and sycophants as they are by earnest researchers and farsighted practitioners. Part of an architecture critic's job is to figure out if the message is truly captured by a building's design.
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