Tag Archives: Nature
Weeds are Mother Nature’s doting whisper…
Integration is humanity’s response…
Asian Crossroads Over the Sea, Fukuoka Prefectural International Hall, Fukuoka, Japan.
Namba Park in Osaka, Japan.
Source of all images: Grow Food, Not Lawns.
Can the categorically dead ever make us feel our most alive?
Interior Ceiling View of La Sagrada Familia by Antonio Gaudi. Barcelona, Spain.
The Ruin: Steadfast Nature Embracing Civilization…
Nature is the most powerful of architects.
Whether we recognize it or not.
Expand Perception, Without Fear of Transcendence
Garden City
Vertical Gardens at Musée Branly, by Patrick Blanc. Paris.
The ideal Garden City by Sir Ebenezer Howard.
It is often the case that people fear the city.
Too constricted,
hazardous.
Walls closing in.
Sharp edges and flying debris.
Claustrophobia.
But what if all it takes,
to make the city friendly again,
is a little re-arrangement of architectural particles? Not a complete demolishment of the life we know: just the wiping away of unnatural friction
and accommodation around the living body of Nature.
Our bodies will blossom too.
The bamboo bridge in the Green Village Bali.
Atlantis Dubai’s underwater hotel
Source: ArchiExpo
When we dwell in an era of swelling anxiety…
…the euphoria of losing ourselves in movement – of whatever kind – is one of the few resistances to capitalism we have left at our disposal.
Pattern, Rhythm, Motif – They All Grow Out of Nature, and Out of Human Nature
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