News from Nowhere: A Biological Reading

摘要

There is a principle in the biological field of niche construction that neatly sums up the future of design practice. Just as we alter our material or designed environments, these environments, in turn, alter the genetic, cognitive and cultural expressions of who we are. From this perspective, architectural design is fitting or attuning of the built environment to the embodied, multisensory human organism. Design is grounded not in technologies or Utopian ideologies, but in the paradisiacal instinct for well-being and happiness.