John McMinn

Throughout history architecture has played a crucial role in helping to define humanity's relationship to its larger physical and cultural context. Architecture has not merely been a means of providing shelter, but has operated as a constructed model of a larger order embodying the temporal and cosmological understanding of the world in which we live. Currently, we are experiencing the early stages of what will be recognised as a major shift toward sustainability in all aspects of human activity, described by technologist Ian McLennan as "the fourth wave", potentially equivalent to three earlier fundamental shifts in human history represented by the agricultural, the industrial and the information revolutions.

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