Whence Architecture

Abstract

Architecture is routinely taught and practiced as an art and science of extraction. In this modality, design is construed as ideas and geometries imposed upon extracted matter and energy, as represented here through brief material stories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Seagram Building. This habit contributes decisively to our inherited broken world context. Other interpretations of design are possible that tend and mend the world through design and building. This reflects a more immanent relation expressed through design. A regenerative future for architecture is only possible through immanent relations, as represented here in a forest-first approach to timber building.