Green Bodies. Ecosystems for Today’s Architectures

If an “ecosystems” approach to architecture should take place, then architecture must belong simultaneously to the concrete materiality of the matter and to electronic materiality of Information Technology. We do not live in the never-ending flat plateau of infinitive space, but in the curvilinear, negotiable, topological world of planet earth! We are in a “cosmos” of interconencted forces and limited resources. Electronic and ecological thinking are both based on interconnections. Architecture should not produce one “object” but a series of methods to implement relationships and families of solutions. Reference to Richard Buckminster Fuller, Vladimir Vernadsky and John Allen are used to reinforce these concepts together with some examples of current research. The article concludes by pointing out six characteristics of an ecoystems approach.