ABSTRACT
Recognition, memory, choice, sharing with others, the acquisition of significance: all these contribute to the processes of architecture. Architecture makes more lasting difference when it proposes and puts into effect physical changes to the fabric of the world. Architecture always depends on things that are already there. It involves recognising their potential or the problems they present; it involves, maybe, remembering their associations and significances; it involves choice of site and sharing with others. Fundamentally all terrestrial architecture depends upon the ground for its base, something that tend to take for granted. Each of the major buildings on the Acropolis in Athens identifies a place that was already there in the landscape. Examples of the ways natural features or elements contribute to architecture are innumerable. They can be aesthetically and intellectually engaging in the way they symbolise a symbiotic relationship between people and their conditions.
