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ABOUT “SUSTAINABILITY” – The environmental system has a reticular geometry. Inside it, the system seeks its balance. When an environmental stress occurs, a poorly resilient eco-system comes across fragile; instead, an adaptable eco-system remodels itself. Since eco-system is not resilient, we have to use sustainable strategies to enhance the state. Over all, we have to disambiguate the word “sustainability”, even used as buzzword.

In 1987 the Brundtland report associated the word “sustainability” with the term “development”, but they clash each other because the development has perceived with an anthropocentric meaning. According to the eco-centric vision, sustainability is the quality of no causing damages to the environment: the right term is “degrowth[1]“.

Therefore, we have to use the term eco-sustainability; prefix eco, from greek Oikos/home, represents our environment. Eco is also a part of terms eco-logy and eco-system. Inside systemic organization, human being produces architecture for his living, and he must relate himself to the other subjects, part of this “system”.

First definition of sustainable architecture dates back to 2004; according to this definition, architecture is sustainable if is able to recompose the discrepancies, also through technological innovations, minimizing the impact on the environment, therefore it is eco-sustainable.

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[1] by Serge Latouche, 2007