Eyes That Do Not See? The Practice of Sustainable Architecture

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Under New York law, roof-top water towers are invisible. The terms of the code are not vague; the silhouette of a water tower and the shadow it casts are transparent to the zoning envelope and the sky-exposure plane. This is not, of course, truly mysterious; it results from the neglect of a small effect in the guarantee of sufficient light at street level. But water towers are invisible in quite another sense and this raises useful questions about architecture.

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1995
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Postprint version. Published in Practices, Volume 3/4, Winter 1995.
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