The Big Rethink Part 7: PLACE AND ALIVENESS - Pattern, play and the planet | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
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The cultivation of a sense of place embeds architecture more fully in the world as an experience that goes beyond buildings to articulate and resonate more intensively with wider human concerns and ideals
Creating place − environments with a distinct sense of place (of being somewhere memorably distinctive that is rooted in and shaped by the many specificities of its larger setting) − is an essential aspect of how we have made a home for ourselves on earth, and so also of how we made the earth our home. It is impossible to generalise about all places: some can be forbidding and provoke unease; others, those we are concerned with here, are welcoming and entice us to engage with them. In such places it is easier to be fully present, to feel a sense of belonging to, and relationship with, our setting, to open up and simply be.