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88 Organic architecture should not be conceived as a personal and arbitrary vision of the architect . Organic architecture involves a state of awareness and a capacity for capturing the actual reality operating on the site, independent of the architect's vision . Let us not be mistaken, a creative process which feeds on what is felt to be there and is inspired by it, is definitely not a passive one . We are talking about a complex process where we have to be constantly aware in order to discover and identify the visible as well as the hidden forces on the site, in order for us, the planners, to be able to revive them . His Holiness the Dalai Lama refers in his book The Joy of living and Dying in Peace to that existing reality to which our work must relate to, by saying : " One aspect of the process is first to know that things have a natural and innate mode of existence… . . Reality is not something that the mind has fabricated anew . Therefore, when we search for the meaning of truth, we are searching for reality, for the way things actually exist . This is called the logic of suchness, which means that we investigate things on the basis of their suchness or nature… . We need to be able to distinguish between the mere clarity of the mind and those aspects that appear when extraneous factors such as attachment arise" . When I arrive on a site the questions have already been clearly formulated, but the search for the answers to these questions is done on the site itself . Each planning decision is the product of a direct experiencing of all the forces operating on the site, including the directions of the light, the view, the buildings and the paths around, the topographical structure of the land, etc . The decisions are taken intuitively, since intuition is the only means of experiencing the environment as a whole entity . Unlike common planning processes, where everything is predetermined, this is a process whereby the plan of the building develops gradually from the interaction of the abstract planning patterns and the unpredictable situations developing on the site . This is a process that frees us from using arbitrary preconceived images stored in our minds that are irrelevant to the evolution of the plan, and as a result allows us to open our minds to new things . The process of working on the site itself allows me to be carried away with the reality there , and is essential in order to be free of preconceived images I saw in other places, which de facto are irrelevant to the development of the building layout on the specific site I am working on . Eugen Herrigel, a German professor of philosophy who spent the period between the two world wars in Tokyo, exploring Zen Buddhism through practicing the art of archery, quotes in his book Zen in the Art of Archery, his Zen master who taught him what state of mind is required for an archer to successfully hit the target . "Drawing the bow and loosing the shot happens independently of the Archer . The hands must open like the skin of a ripe fruit . The Archer must let himself go to the point that the only thing that is left of him is a purposeless tension ) … . ( At this state of mind, being released from all attachments, art should be practiced" At this state of mind, architecture should be practiced . Planning decisions taken and marked on the ground materialize on the actual building plan .
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פורטוגלי, נילי
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