Why Design?

I think that the new trend that is becoming more apparent is that many are treating the

Nature as a religion. They see it as a religion of the spirit, and not the church

necessarily. One good example of this is the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright thinks

of nature as his religion, he builds his structures combining all the features of the area

within the building. One of his houses, Fallingwater, actually has a creek going through

the house and creating a waterfall within and outside of the structure. He sees nature as

an all powerful force that must be respected at all costs. This is a productive step in

religion because is your religion is nature, then you can converse with members of any

other faith without having any preconceptions about them. Nature is universal to

everyone; it is something that we all have in common and that we all can work peacefully

with. Wright was able to design buildings for any faith because he had no set faith other

than nature itself. It was able to give an unbiased look of the structure, they would

always be true to the faith and of nature. I believe that nature is an appropriate religion

because it seems so pure to the individual. There are no set rules, there is no traditional

teaching, there are no texts, and just the spirit of nature and your own experiences guide

you. There is no bad name for nature; nature is never corrupt like some practiced

religions throughout history. Nature is the foundation of our world, I believe it has a

right to be praised and not taken for granted. To me nature and the environment go hand

in hand, they are a good match if the religion is not in the traditional sense, but made for

the individual. The enormity and the complexity of nature is so powerful that it might

hold some greater purpose.