Form follows food
A look into architecture’s role in urban farming
With the increase of population in cities, there is more and more speculation about a future that is both green and urban, in which architecture plays a fundamental role.
Following this premise, Olivia Fong and Morten Gjerde, from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, delve into current practices related to this social, economic and environmental infrastructure in this article.
For the authors, current architects and designers continue to leave aside sustainability and organic matter in their renderings, considering it a merely decorative element.