^ As an architect, what is your opinion of LEED? Are you frustrated at all the "green" parking lots, office parks, and big box stores (that were once) going up?
I argued in another thread that
LEED was total bullshit as currently structured, even if the intentions behind the original drafters were well-meaning. The biggest problem we still have is that we think of "green" as a sort of salve you can apply to individual buildings or building components, when "green design" really is the implementation of
sustainable neighborhoods and communities set into appropriate landscapes, or the addition of complementary buildings into such environments.
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