The two authors, Sebestian Marot and Don Willis, attempt to relate energy with our built environment. While the article by Marot, ‘Hearthbreaking’ provides a condensed history of the evolution of energy and how it continues to be a key ingredient to architectural expression, the article ‘Less is Less’ by Willis suggests that our approaches toward sustainable architecture , efficient energy usage and distribution, has been very isolated and narrow-minded. In the article on “Hearthbreaking” in Fireplace, Sebestien Marot attempts to reference ‘fire’ with the notion of energy for construction and combustion. He draws on four other articles by various scholars, representing the evolution of energy in buildings, physically and theoretically. The This is due to our heavy emphasis on individually efficient and ‘optimised’ objects and buildings, each with their own separate building power souce. In addition, numerous pro-sprawl/anti-urban incentives contribute to the stand-alone buildings on isolated sites. Willis argues that there is insufficient attention to the social, cultural, economic and technological contexts in which architecture objects operate. Willis further relates our current predicament to our lack of attention to the ‘connectedness’ of things, one that has rebound effects, which he expounds through ‘Jevons’ Paradox’. While we talk about increasing energy efficiency, we are actually talking about increasing the productivity of energy. Based on the law of supply and demand; as we increase productivity of anything, it reduces the implicit price, thus resulting in an increase in demand and consumption. The effect of increased demand due to increased efficiency is the rebound effect. The existance of the rebound effect suggests that there’s a need to complement our pursuit of technical solutions with parallel strategies for social, cultural, and economic solutions to our energy
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