Architecture is not Nature
Architecture becomes Nature.
Some Initial Definitions and Opposites
Definitions
Architecture:
‘Architecti est scientia pluribus disciplinis et variis eruditionibus ornata, cuius iudicio probantur omnia quae ab ceteris artibus perficiuntur’
Unknown Author (referred to as Vitruvius or marcus Vitruvius Pollio in later editions)
‘UiTRuuii De Architectura : Liber I
‘Architecture is science more training and various trainings decorated, the trial approved all which from other arts their performance.’
‘The works of the chief builders’: Book 1 Chapter 1 British Library. Manuscript. Harley 2767
Nature:
‘Natura’
"essential qualities, innate disposition"
A comparison between Nature and Architecture.
What Nature Is
Nature is composed of 26 dimensions of energy forming, at a human sensory level, within the wavelength of visible light energy, levels of energy that humans have sensed and called matter. The matter has been termed solids, liquids and gases depending on its energy level. Chemical reactions between the elements forming this level of energy, matter, then react to form molecules. These form amino acids, then peptides, genes, then, cellular form, then multi-cellular form. The reactions and re-agencies with the environment continue the form for the duration of the available elements within any form. Once complete the reaction reverses and the form decomposes back through each stage to an energy level.
The reactions and re-agencies are termed Life.
Nature is therefore all of the environment.
Nature is environment.
Energy changing from one level of energy to another continuously and being partly sensed and so named by human beings.
What Architecture Is
Architecture is an abstract idea that is created and produced by human beings.
Architecture is dependant on nature, the environment to produce matter, to create form.
Architecture is a response to a human need, generated by nature, the environment.
Conclusion
Architecture is not natural, it is a human response to nature, the environment.
Architecture by responding to Nature becomes part of Nature, the environment.
Ian K Whittaker
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20/12/2013
14/10/2020
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