Relation of Nature, Technology, and Architecture

Relation of Nature, Technology, and Architecture

Architecture as Integral Part of Nature:

We shall never be able to talk about nature from the outside but only from the inside,to being an integral part of nature ourselves, like to consider something created and produced by man as being outside nature.

Western and Eastern Attitudes towards Man-Made & Natural Things:

Significant cultural differences exist between "Western" and "Eastern" attitudes The thinking about man-made and natural things is best expressed in the relation of prevailing values.

Eastern cultures, and other traditional societies aroun, value things differently. In China and Japan things that cannot be manufactured, for example crack patterns in ceramics are highly esteemed. On the other hand a strong tradition has evolved to cultivate these processes in terms of setting an environmental condition for self-organisation.

Western culture, values more  manufactured and produced things , and does not value nature, which takes resources and time. The compromise of Western and Eastern civilisations is inevitably taking place in the increasing globalisation, and trials to protect the environment have already changed the public's point of view.

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