| Statement of issue/problem. This thesis chooses to investigate the most primal architectural event, the interaction with site.;Statement of significance of issue. The relationship between man and nature has been a long-standing philosophical question. Architects have long preferred to ignore the existing environment rather than reveal what is already there. This is a challenge to the architect to be concerned with the inter-action of building and landscape. There is a vital importance to establishing an architecture that does not mar the existing environment. Architecture has the power to introduce a new landscape and the architect is responsible to seek to create an architecture that embraces the landscape. The built environment is not intended to oppose nature or to control it, but rather should attempt to find union with it. Therefore, architecture should become a place where people and nature are drawn together in the act of building and construction. The act of construction is destined to produce a new landscape and thus architects have the responsibility to draw out the particular characteristics of a given place. The purpose of architecture is the creation of an authentic place and this implies the necessity of discovering the architecture that the site itself is seeking.;The result of this exploration will be a site-specific installation that is developed through the drawing, testing, writing, and making over the duration of this thesis. (Abstract shortened by UMI.). |
