SERIES ONE: Architectural Language Research_Part Four

ARCHITECTURE AND ADAPTATION

If one considers the ecological term adaptation applied analogously to contemporary culture, to adapt, it can be argued is the reconstitution of individual identity in a hypertrophic cultural ambivalence.    

Put another way, adaptation concerns the negotiation of memory as much as space. Buildings and shared spaces can be a condition in which different groups come together through shared experience.  As such, collective identities are forged and traditions invented. 

One rationale is that a sense of place is created through experience.  This argument is gounded in the notion that urban memory is derived from an intuitive relationship to events.