How can nature be more an intergral part of architecture?
"We pay almost no attention to the complex and subtle ways in which buildings and nature can relate to each other. We have all but written nature out of urban design; we have turned it into an afterthought. And it isn't even an afterthought in most urban architecture. It just isn't there. We save nature for the country, where we indulge it to excess, and then we forget all about it in the city...Why are there not more collaborations with landscape architects? Landscape, after all, is also the crafting of space and the making of form. But most of the time landscape architects arrive on the scene after all architectural decisions have been made, relegated to the tasks of either embellishing what is already there or working with pieces of land that are separate and distinct from the building and considered outside the realm of the architecture."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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