Social–psychological responses to trends of sustainable architecture

Abstract

[EN] Sustainable development became the predominant official paradigm of planning, design, and construction policies. This concept with its environmental, social, economic and cultural dimensions has been applied to the field of architecture since the end of the 20th century. However, numerous researchers still notice one-sided technological and ecological orientation of sustainable architecture and the lack of attention to its cultural, place-based and aesthetics aspects. Nevertheless, sustainability as a design paradigm, undoubtedly encourages a change in the way people consider the notion of aesthetics. The efforts to implement sustainability ideas sometimes lead to very unusual designs – provocative experiments, futuristic solutions or re-using - recycling projects that sometimes may lead to conflicting assessments in the society. This research investigates how aesthetics of sustainable architecture is distinguished and psychologically accepted by people.