13 March 2008

augmented landscapes





"Scope and Scape"
"The scope of landscape-the careful view or examination-and the scape-the expansive scene-provide a duality that is employed by architecture and experienced by its occupants. This relationship can be considered as the miniature to the gigantic as defined by the cultural theorist Susan Stewart:
Our most fundamental relation to the gigantic is articulated in our relation to landscape, our immediate and lived relation to nature as it "surrounds" us...We move through the landscape; it does not move through us..."

-From the book: Augmented Landscapes by Smout/Allen