Architecture promotes renewal when it reinforces primal connections. By studying how various forces shape and reshape the natural world, we can discover renewing patterns of form and function. These insights can then be translated into architecture that encourages active wholeness in mind, body, nature, and culture. Though spaciousness cannot be seen, heard, or touched, it pervades every aspect of design and construction. “We build the floor, walls and roof of a house, but it is the space inside that makes it livable,” explains the Tao Te Ching. Within spaciousness, formlessness spawns form, darkness sparks light, and silence resonates sound. (202-203)
