In 2007, Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, principals of the New York-based architecture firm WORKac, were teaching an “eco-urbanism” seminar at Princeton University. To grasp this relatively new term, Andraos, Wood, and their students had to first learn the history of the two fields from which it evolved. So the architects had their students dissect a number of city plans, from the fully realized (Levittown, New York, 1947) to the audaciously conceptual (Buckminster Fuller’s Tetrahedral City, 1965). Just how socially inclusive and sensitive to the environment were they?
“Over the following summer,” says Wood, “we thought it would be interesting—as a WORKac project—to re-examine the urban plans we used in the course in terms of their ecological performance. We stripped them of their sociological and cultural intentions or context and simply analyzed them.”
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