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The audience greatly applauded this speech.

5) Former student of ENSA Montpellier and the Réunion branch:

I am referring to the first question, and the term sustainable development. It has been said that it cannot be replaced by the word sustainable. Can we not replace it with the term “low tech”? I saw a lot of buildings which were passive, but which were not necessarily low tech or sustainable development-oriented. On the other hand, all the low tech buildings that I was able to study correspond to the criteria of sustainable development architecture.

André De Herde: That is a good suggestion. I am afraid we might stay too attached to “tech”. Sustainable development architecture also has a lot to do with the program, for example, and the situation in the city. And then, we call a table a table, and a chair a chair. So if the word consecrated by the public is “sustainable development”, why not use the word sustainable? But you have to define it. If you define “low tech” as I define sustainable, that is all right and we agree.