Architecture and Sustainability: Matter, Quality, Form explores the relationship between architecture and sustainability and identifies strategies and projects to overcome the current and upcoming ecological and environmental crisis. The architecture sustainability pair has been explored in various ways over the last few decades, but it raises new and urgent questions that are increasingly relevant. The collected essays, authorial drawings and diagrams interpret some significant contemporary projects, defining a comprehensive perspective of environmental issues in architectural design, looking for new solutions which limit and optimize the resources' consumption. The book is organized in four sections: Circularity and Reuse; Appropriate Technology; Materials, Techniques, Local Care and Alpine Ways which address the central topic putting in evidence four major challenges: economy, performance, construction, culture.