The nature and civilization is a unity of opposites. On one
hand, man is separate apart from the wild, with its own culture and technology
passing on generation after generation. On the other hand, human beings and
their cultures and technologies are part of nature. “All forms of nature and
all forms of civilization have ‘architecture’, an arrangement of material in
space and over time that determines their shape, size, behavior and duration,
and how they come into being”.
It is interesting how Weinstock expand the definition of
architecture into a broader discipline. Architecture becomes an organized arrangement
of material with a mechanism of interaction between shape, size, behavior and
duration over space and time. Man and nature may not share the same material,
because man may create own culture and technologies aside frome nature, but
they both follow specific mechanisms which controlling their architectures.
The nature is controlled by changing landscapes and
climates, living organisms change and develop accordingly, and human has a role
in controlling then ecology of nature and living species consequently.
Emergence is the production of these processes, the forms
and their behaviors, that have an irreducible complexity. Architecture is
dynamically created by the interaction of forces, living or non-living, over
space and time. Cites are arrays of architectures. Architecture is the
emergence of living or non-living forces. Cites are the emergence of
architectures.
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