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University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Landscape Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

2006

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Selfish Form, Selfless Nature, Richard K. Sutton Aug 2006

Selfish Form, Selfless Nature, Richard K. Sutton

Landscape Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Tension exists between the use of technology and human connection to nature. While architectural design begins in the imitation of nature and attempts to solve human/nature problems, its final forms too often have more to do with technology than with nature. So much so the natural conditions at building sites are too often ignored, minimized or trivialized, The culprit in all this is the human ego a master that must be served an becomes memorialized in built form.


Comments On Plan View Visual Assessment, Richard K. Sutton Jan 2006

Comments On Plan View Visual Assessment, Richard K. Sutton

Landscape Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Plan view visual assessments ignore human horizontal orientation to the landscape.