BUILT BY NATURE
Alberto Campo Baeza, El Tecuán Mexico, 2020
Nonintrusive architecture lets us experience nature and human creation simultaneously. As long as modernism and nature are defined as conflicting domains and not integrated networks, the universal idea of what we consider ‘progress’ has failed. We cannot think of the ‘field’ of architecture without thinking about politics, history, behavioral science, sustainability, health, writing etc.
Junya Ishigami, Botanical Garden, 2018
SNØHETTA, Tverrfjellhytta, 2011; Ph: Ketil Jacobsen
Free associations of new disciplines are the new palette of creators that ecologize projects and aim for an equilibrium in the nature / human relationship. From fully blending into the organism of the environment to being shaped and informed by the surroundings, the projects below will be remembered as the foray into something much bigger. This story will continue…
John Pawson, Wooden Chappel, 2019; Ph: Felix Friedmann
Alejandro Aravena, Ocho Quebradas, 2016; Ph: Felipe Camus