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MAN (in) NATURE : A HARMONY OF ARCHITECTURE AND SITE
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ROUSE, MATTHEW ALLEN
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2004, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning: Architecture (Master of).
Abstract
A disturbing trend in recent Western building practices demonstrates an architectural philosophy of an opposition towards nature in order to control it. Strip malls, vast parking lots, and unsympathetic warehouses and office complexes are devouring the American landscape. A new philosophy must be enacted if we are to change the way we build in relation to the environment. A return to embracing nature as an architectural driver is imperative in order to bring back a coherent understanding and a spiritual compatibility between both man and his surroundings that cannot be realized with each as opposing elements. The solution can be established by working with and not against the existing qualities of a site, by using the patterns of nature to create form and space, and by responding to the unique material and geographic character that makes a region special.
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David Niland (Advisor)
Pages
61 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
man
;
nature
;
man in nature
;
california
;
research
;
material
;
maya
;
abalone
;
golden section
;
connection
;
harmony
;
site
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ROUSE, M. A. (2004).
MAN (in) NATURE : A HARMONY OF ARCHITECTURE AND SITE
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1082838559
APA Style (7th edition)
ROUSE, MATTHEW.
MAN (in) NATURE : A HARMONY OF ARCHITECTURE AND SITE.
2004. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1082838559.
MLA Style (8th edition)
ROUSE, MATTHEW. "MAN (in) NATURE : A HARMONY OF ARCHITECTURE AND SITE." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1082838559
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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