Joe Dahmen, a professor at UBC’s school of architecture and landscape architecture, discussed the concept of soft architecture on Roundhouse Radio.
He explained how traditional development drains natural resources.
“Because architecture is engaged so intricately with energy and materials, it means it can be a huge part of the solution to minimizing our footprint and actually engaging in a positive way with the ecosystems,” he said. “In a way, you can look at what we’ve been doing as running on a kind of geological subsidy of concentrations of energy, and as we move toward a kind of new paradigm, I think we have tremendous capability to reshape that narrative.”
