EXIST STENCIL

摘要

I think we should invent or encourage a new status within the profession of architecture, that of the poet/architect. Whose job it is to go further than the Vitruvian ideals of firmness, commodity and delight, further than an artist whose engagement with nature we experience vicariously, but towards an architecture that mediates between our incomprehension of the vast magnificence and complexity of the natural world and the actual spaces that we can physically touch and inhabit. A natural poetic architecture that creates spaces that take us back into ourselves. Like attics, confessionals, the bed, the cloister or the study carrel. Small-scale containments validating, encouraging and prompting internal journeys. Spaces that are empowered by the vastness of nature and made habitable by the imagination offer a counterpoint to our increasing isolation from nature, from others and from our surroundings. This should be an architecture to help us connect more deeply with our inner selves and, consequently, more meaningfully engage with our environment and hopefully with each other.