While many of the pioneers of green architecture could arguably be criticized as technocratic and dry, this has never applied to Emilio Ambasz. His concept of ?green over gray? has been pushing the debate around sustainability forwards since the 1970s, but alongside this concept he has developed a critical approach to architectural meaning and form-making which competes with many of architecture's more poetic practitioners. Ahead Vladimir Belogolovsky's upcoming exhibition of Ambasz's work, ?Emilio Ambasz: Architecture Toward Nature,? which is on show at the Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Center from February 6th ? 28th, here Belogolovsky shares his interview with the architect ? the latest interview in his ?City of Ideas? column.

Casa de Retiro Espiritual. Image Courtesy of Emilio Ambasz
While many of the pioneers of green architecture could arguably be criticized as technocratic and dry, this has never applied to Emilio Ambasz. His concept of ?green over gray? has been pushing the debate around sustainability forwards since the 1970s, but alongside this concept he has developed a critical approach to architectural meaning and form-making which competes with many of architecture's more poetic practitioners. Ahead Vladimir Belogolovsky's upcoming exhibition of Ambasz's work, ?Emilio Ambasz: Architecture Toward Nature,? which is on show at the Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Center from February 6th ? 28th, here Belogolovsky shares his interview with the archi...