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A question is asked, how the built environment effect who you are? Framework, clockwork, phenomena, and opposition, the terminology might take extra time to understand.
Is environment one of the biggest effects in our everyday lives? Some might say our lives style is shaped by the environment we live in. Is it always true that we living to fit it our environment. I keep asking this question to myself over and over again. Umm!…5 minutes………10 minutes…….umm!……..no answers…………then the darkness fall, the wind hollowing eager to hear my answer and my only way to get away this frightening sound is to come up with some sort of answer that one might pause and think, does this make any sense at all?
My response to this question, I think it depends on how you want to look at it. Yes the environment shape our way of lives but only at the start. The type of place we live in, the type of cloth we wear, the type of food we eat…..etc, and these are the requirement in order for each individual to fit in the environment. However if we look at the other end or result in another word, we actually are the one that shape the environment. Our demanding is much higher than what the environment has for us. For example we need a house to keep us warm, protect us from severe weather, do you think these require us to build skyscraper or the skyscraper is just say I can do it better than you?
Men are challenged by nature but men tend to enjoy the challenge and they take it as a pleasure to their victory. You can think of this in the relationship between the soil and tree. The soil provide mineral for the tree to grow and the tree’s height depends on soil how much mineral the soil can provide. Eventually the form of the soil will change through the development of the tree. I think this is the phenomena and within phenomena there are clockworks, frameworks, and thing.
Extra thought for you to considered from of our best known architect.
To Mr. Wright as one person asked;
"What is architecture anyway? Is it the vast collection of the various buildings which have been built to please the varying taste of the various lords of mankind? I think not.
"No, I know that architecture is life; or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. So architecture I know to be a Great Spirit....
"Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, and his circumstances as they change. That is really architecture."
—Frank Lloyd Wright, from In the Realm of Ideas, edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland