#architecture “…“I have lost count of the times I have been accused of wanting to turn the clock back to some Golden Age,” he writes. “Nothing could be further from my mind. My concern is the future. We face the terrifying prospect by 2050 of another three billion people on this planet needing to be housed and architects and urban designers have an enormous role to play in responding to this challenge.” What follows is a manifesto for how they might confront that task. The importance of nature as a model for architectural design is highlighted with particular emphasis placed on the role of geometry, as illustrated through buildings ranging from gothic cathedrals to the Taj Mahal. It is an approach that the Prince argues has equal relevance for the design of communities: “As traditional thinking teaches, basing designs on the timeless universal principles expressed by nature’s order enables the full scope of our humanity to be fulfilled, on the physical, communal, cultural and spiritual levels. What has concerned me about the design and planning of so many modern built environments during the greater part of the 20th century is that these four interconnecting levels have been completely abandoned and ignored.””
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:59:00 +0000
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