ABSTRACT
This study seeks to elucidate how the tectonic language of structure facilitated the dialogue between architecture and landscape theory in the last two centuries, and how that dialogue influenced new forms of structural experimentation. Examining projects that, in their limited scale and deeply experiential character, create objects or spaces for deep immersion in landscape, we find how architects deploy new tectonic solutions to express and organize ways to integrate the building with natural systems and specific places and landscapes. These projects, often built on culturally significant landscapes, have reimagined tectonic expression and stereotomic integration, exploring both atmosphere and ground, turning static built form into dynamic spaces and ecologies.
