An Entry Point

Current influences: Kiel Moe, Bruno Latour, Jay Mark Johnson, Gilles Retsin, The Breakthrough Institute, LEVER’s Framework Proposal (RIP)

Developing a framework and a point of view for this blog has taken some time. Architecture and environmental systems have been curiosities of mine since I was in high school but I am not sure how to approach them. At times, I have seen them as fully intertwined and at other moments in almost direct opposition. After intensive research throughout my thesis on this relationship, I find myself currently a believer that natures do not exclude humans nor what they create. Architecture is part of and creates new natures where it is built and where it is harvested. However, my thesis also led me to understand that at some point architecture must become isolated from the larger picture to be sculpted and designed by elements outside “nature” like cultural history and technology. These posts will be studies on these two diverse networks, architecture and environment, how they attract and repel one another and how they work independently of each other for the benefit of both.

I will attempt to catalogue the works of art, architecture, philosophy, science and technology that have inspired my posts. These ideas are generally rough sketches of my current mentality and a way for myself to look back at the thinkers that shaped my thinking over time.

In general, I hope to explore:

Networks of natural systems and architectural production
Nature’s representation in architecture
Architecture’s representation in nature
Material flows
Time and change in architecture
New technologies impact on architecture, environment and culture
Overcoming eco-nhilism through beauty

Lets get to it!