ABSTRACT
Looking at any master plan it is immediately apparent that its function is to mark the spatial relationship between buildings and corridors, civilization and nature. What is less obvious at first glance is that a master plan is always also a reification of political philosophy. The relationship between buildings, between edifice and environment is the material manifestation of a desired relationship between persons, and between humanity and nature. A master plan is no less than the transformation of an abstract idea into a concrete structure. To make an analogy after Georg Hegel, if philosophy is its time comprehended in thought, architecture is its time constructed in things.
