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Sustainable and Contemporary Practice

Building-scale design practices that define current and recent architectural priorities: adaptive reuse, biophilic design, net zero energy building, passive house and passive solar design, and sustainable architecture as a named practice area. Belongs here: any named contemporary practice focused on a building's environmental performance, resource use or reuse. Does not belong here: urban-scale movements such as new urbanism, grouped under urban planning and design movements, even where their motivations overlap.

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Era of Emergence
1970 CE 1
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Worldwide 1
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  • Wikipedia, Green building, history section, era
    In the 1970s, the energy crisis caused various building energy-saving technologies such as solar energy, geothermal energy, and wind energy to emerge, and energy-saving buildings became the forerunner of building development.
  • Wikipedia, Green building, history section, region
    In the 1970s, the energy crisis caused various building energy-saving technologies such as solar energy, geothermal energy, and wind energy to emerge, and energy-saving buildings became the forerunner of building development.
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