Architecture as an environmental symbol

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1997-12

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Texas Tech University

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If we must remain under shelters, architecture that is designed to suit our lives, then we must consider the environmental aspects of our shelters in a natural way in order to remain indigenous to our planet Earth. If wholly disregarded, then our shelters, our architecture, is what will cause nature's destruction.

Architecture on the earth's surface, intrinsically, subdues the environment. Built structures tend to rupture the natural surface during construction and break the ecological connection that exists. The residual impact of built architecture places a load on the natural environment through a chain of energy consumption and waste products emission. If society neglects the importance of preserving nature, architecture could serve as a medium to the natural environment's ruin.

Architecture should work in accordance with the natural environment and conserve and promote the natural life which surrounds it. In this way, architecture can serve as a symbol to society of being in harmony with nature. The architectural enclosure which is visible to society will symbolize this harmony. My thesis is that architecture can fumction to complement the natural environment and serve as a symbol to society.

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