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The interpretation of shapes as gestures

In a biophilic year archive

A shape is easy to treat as a neutral outline, a matter of fit and form. Read as a gesture, it turns out to carry feeling, and that reading applies to nearly everything a space is made of.

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This essay is part of A Biophilic Year Archive, available with the book A Biophilic Year: 365 thoughts on the essence and practice of biophilic design.