Vision
Our connection to Nature's signals, flows, and cycles—the very things that make us human—are threatened by both the destabilization of planetary systems and the proliferation of digital systems. Together, these twin crises create a compensatory hunger for the embodied, spatial, tactile, and beautiful. These have become buzzwords of digital life precisely because the real thing is receding. There is a growing imperative to rediscover our humanity through direct contact with Earth's systems.Architecture is a technology in direct contact with our changing environment that determines what we let in, what we keep out, and what we frame for interaction. From conception to completion, countless decisions also affect how a shelter changes its surroundings. Architecture can be deliberate and visionary about the future it models. No future is there when landscape is flattened to accommodate something preconceived. A future is there when our contributions are modeled on reciprocity, the principle of “a give for every take” that generated the richness of our world.
The world needs tangible, actionable models for our shared future. We need different systems.
Jeffrey Montes
Different Systems
Seattle, WA