TY - JOUR TI - The architectural expression of buildings realising the ideas of urban agriculture AU - Drożdż-Szczybura, Małgorzata TI - The architectural expression of buildings realising the ideas of urban agriculture AB - Economic and environmental conditions, changing with unprecedented speed, entail looking for new agricultural technologies. The increasing human population makes it necessary to think of new methods of food production. Until now, several-dozen-storey vertical farms, open and closed, and intended mainly for urban areas and urban agriculture, belong mostly in the sphere of futuristic ideas. The projected structures are complexes of unprecedented architectural forms, self-sufficient in energy, making use of sustainable energy sources, recycling water and/or other materials. The question must be raised as to whether our civilisation on Earth can survive and develop in the coming decades without implementing visionary (for the time being) conceptions of food production? Agriculture in high-rise buildings is the dream of some scientists and architects around the globe and is becoming a reality. VL - 2015 IS - Architektura Zeszyt 1-A (1) 2015 PY - 2015 SN - 0011-4561 C1 - 2353-737X SP - 29 EP - 52 DO - 10.4467/2353737XCT.15.002.3747 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/the-architectural-expression-of-buildings-realising-the-ideas-of-urban-agriculture KW - urban agriculture KW - vertical farms