"Weather Architecture"

One of the articles we were given to read focuses on "weather architecture." I found it very interesting to read and here are some of the points I found most interesting:

1. The idea that weather should not be separated from architecture, but rather should be allowed to "pour" into the architecture, in this way it would "blur the boundaries" that we have previously grown accustomed to in architecture.

2. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli, aiming to "challenge the Classical theory of beauty." Rather than dismissing the effects of weathering, they chose to look at it in a positive light, rather than seeing ruins for instance, as something negative, they would be interpreted instead as showing the passage of time, the evolution of the building rather than it's destruction.

3. The focus on the material of a building. That the material is "a major constituent of place" so the weathering and aging it undergoes is part of the conservation process. Instead of being restrained by the idea of conservation, it should be acknowledged that this weathering and aging show "the golden stain of time" and are just as important as the building was in it's original state.