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From 2000 onwards, the “Architecture and Climate” team wondered how to define sustainable development for architects. After three years of reflection, we propose:

Architecture is ethically part of its social, political, economic and environmental surroundings when it benefits from the advantages (of these four areas), while counterbalancing the inevitable disadvantages that these surroundings may present (for example, if you are in a place where there is a lot of noise, there is an acoustic disadvantage), but, above all, by letting the surroundings benefit from what we, the architects, generate. If you are planning a building that does not add anything to the environment where you are building it, do not build it. Likewise, if a building can be demolished to add value to its location, demolish it.

Therefore, architecture falls within different scales, ranging from the material to the building, to its environment, its district, its city, its territory. Talking about the building alone, like the glass tower deposited by helicopter in Sao Paolo, is over.