ABSTRACT
Chapter 5, Building Geography—Emerging, Forming, Patterning, begins with the 1920s silent film Growth of the Soil. The film was part of a new wave of naturalist movements against the technological society of the time, and its humanist approach charts the beauty and despair of a family living in the wilds of Norway. The chapter is then made up of two sections comprising a series of case studies of buildings and urban design projects that formulate building and geography as associations of inside and outside and as amorphous architectural terrains. The first section, Emerging—Geography Building deals with single buildings. The second, Forming and Patterning—Urban Geographies, looks at urban schemes and buildings that help to elucidate the concept of building geography.
