"The poetry of the Earth is never dead." The sensual imagery of John Keats is an apt descriptor for the natural beauty which still manages to cling to existence. On the current path, his masterpiece's adulation of the natural realm will become a relic of a past age, when the wildness of the planet was still remembered; a romantic vision of a time when humans were enthusiastically in love with nature and its spiritual dimensions.
Architecture is one and the same as the trees in the forests of the world, in that each possesses the spirit of existence, providing shelter for many creatures; creating spaces to be inhabited. Through arch...