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Thesis: Alexandre Kinney, CMU B. Arch 2014
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GAIATECTONICS: TOWARD A GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PSYCHOECOLOGY
-- architecture is a psychogeomorphic agent --
The geometry of architecture has always physically and psychologically expressed a barrier between humans and nature: because of the necessisty of shelter from the environment for suvival; as a result of human tools and craft; in order to express human order and dominance of the landscape. The differeintiation of the man-made from the natural has become more pronounced through standardized industrial production and intensified urbanization.
The anthropogenic geometry of architecture reflects but also engenders the false belief that humans are separate from nature. An integrated landscape-architectural language inspired by geomorphological processes by which landform is shaped might encourage the recognition that humans and nature are a unified ecological system. A geomorphological psychoecology is necessary to replace human-nature antagonsm with harmony. This new architectural language and philosophy of geoanthropogenic harmonization is called Gaiatectonics.
-- architecture is a psychogeomorphic agent --
The geometry of architecture has always physically and psychologically expressed a barrier between humans and nature: because of the necessisty of shelter from the environment for suvival; as a result of human tools and craft; in order to express human order and dominance of the landscape. The differeintiation of the man-made from the natural has become more pronounced through standardized industrial production and intensified urbanization.
The anthropogenic geometry of architecture reflects but also engenders the false belief that humans are separate from nature. An integrated landscape-architectural language inspired by geomorphological processes by which landform is shaped might encourage the recognition that humans and nature are a unified ecological system. A geomorphological psychoecology is necessary to replace human-nature antagonsm with harmony. This new architectural language and philosophy of geoanthropogenic harmonization is called Gaiatectonics.
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