Speaking about the harmony between man and nature is hackneyed but it evidently does describe a specific condition: where the work of human beings takes care of nature, of the soil, the plants, the animals, l get a sense of how human beings depend on the earth and at the same time
I begin to realize that this must be the source of the impression of beauty that I associate with my experience of landscape. In addition to traditional cultural landscapes, there are other more recent ones in which l see no beauty at all.
l think that is often related to the fact that the built objects of these modern cultural landscapes are not invested with an intrinsic value of their own and do not enter into a relationship with the landscape. Structures of this kind just seem to mushroom, to cover the landscape until it disappears.
And it is extremely difficult for me to bear that loss. Urban sprawl for me is an expression of loss, the loss of landscape.
At this point, of course, l would theoretically have to argue: This is where a city emerges. lt is simply about the first generation of build-