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by Michael Schimmelschmidt
The photograph is reproduced from New Organic
Architecture – The Breaking Wave by David Pearson.
(London: Gaia Books Ltd., 2001, h/b, 223pp, £35).
The book will be reviewed by Michael Schimmelschmidt in the next
issue of Caduceus.
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Organic architecture has to do with experiencing: for the designer
it is the process of creating, for the user it is the living relationship
with the building.
The space which organic architecture claims is intuitive (not
rational), creative/innovative (not rooted in tradition and conformity)
and natural (not articifial and imposed).
This form of architecture realizes a significant empathy and
bond with nature: designs which are not a conquest but a symbiotic
embrace. If linked to green and sustainable development, organic
architecture demonstrates, quietly and confidently, a way forward.
Organic architecture is a challenge to complacency and insists
on renewal, and therefore on the impulse of the individual. As
Vitor Ruivo Forte, an architect from Portugal put it: 'The act
of creation produces forms, shapes, rhythms and concepts that
speak to different parts of us and fill many spaces in ourselves.
The root of any building is the metamorphosis of light, it is
through that process, the transformation of the light in our soul,
that abstract spaces can become solid buildings.'
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Michael Schimmelschmidt is an architect,
specializing in ecological design and organic architecture. He
also works as a transpersonal psychotherapist and a management
consultant.
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