Integrated Architecture and Landscape
The field of architecture and landscape has a new theory called
"passages". An artist, James Wines, in response to the unprogressive
recent movement in architecture- "folding", defines "passages" as the
"interpretation of architecture and its context as a system of
passages linking buildings, landscape and
social/contextual/environmental communication. Buildings conceived as
integrations of structure and landscape are mutable and evolutionary,
constantly conveying new and metamorphic levels of information.
Whereas folding suggests a design process of methodical, geometric,
formal strategies [sustainable inventions are essential yet boring],
the notion of passages aims for organic and informal connections
between buildings and landscape.
Putnam Residence, Hollister Ranch, Gaviota,
California.
Earth Sheltered, Passive Solar
Contractor Scott Timmerman
Muntifiq Sheikh's house on the Euphrates.
Built entirely with giant reed or quasab plant, Phragmites
Communis.
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