This short essay analyzes the environmental approach throughout the history of Architectural Technology, starting
from building details up to the present attention to the smart city, land maintenance and urban retrofit, seen as complex research activities, political strategies, design and entrepreneurial actions which have the scope to transform present day urban crusts into organic textures, climatologically
consistent, reactive, user-friendly, efficient and with a low environmental impact.
The exercise identifies some research and
teaching trends for Architectural Technology
in order to promote debate and the
analysis of the historical perspective and
present situation of the discipline
