Abstract
The rise of a green consciousness in societies affected by or recovering from carbon pollution has not fully emerged in a clear aesthetic form as yet. This paper is not comprehensive but will be a reflection upon the work of certain architects, designers and artists who display some kind of ’green aesthetic’. In architectural design, we shall return to an evaluation of the contribution to organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, looking for contemporary consistency with his ’horizontal’ and ’related variety’ approach, possibly captured in some work of Zaha Hadid and others. Some elements of this re-emerged in the later ‘Critical Regionalism’ architectural movement. In art, we shall review the sculptural contributions of ‘land art’ after David Nash, Richard Long, Peter Randall-Page and Andy Goldsworthy amongst others. Finally, in aesthetics, more generally, we shall attempt to ’abduce’ or at least deduce certain aesthetic principles that might inform a ’green design ethic’ in contemporary society from these and other artists.
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