Sustainable design is the method of design architectural object which comply with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability. But does the meaning now is still on the right track? Architects forget that their endeavor designing form, space, and image to reach the goals of sustainable building: energy efficiency, renewable resources, indoor air quality, etc. but not cathed the essence of architecture. Just exclusively using rate as value is endangering the sustainability of sustainable design, as the work is not always good in form. The black truth about green building is that much of it is not attractive. But only design a building but waste resources are in the same level.

To know the cause maybe we should look further to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System, a list of standards for environmentally sustainable construction developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). While in LEED there’s value to measure the quality of the building, but in architecture aesthetical the value is given back to subjectivity, don’t forget the design theories.

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