During the last 200 years, architecture has achieved a great deal of technological and esthetic advancements. Housing, and architectural buildings I general, have also become more affordable and functional. However, as new technologies and economic models have favoured linear and geometrical buildings and constructions, architecture has somehow parted from a human dimension to become more “mechanised” and actively contributed to the alienation from the self. In effect, during the first half of the 20th century, in spite of the relatively ease of realisation of these constructions, several opponents started to stress the fact that modernistic architecture ignored key human dimensions, such as spirituality and linkages with natural elements.
Organic architecture was created to oppose these shortcomings. Major influencers of this new trend in architecture have been Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolf Steiner, who contributed to the definition and development of the concept of Organic Architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 buildings and inspired architects to build with the idea of making a better world. Rudolf Steiner conceived the discipline of “Living Organic Architecture” as one of the manifestations of his anthroposophical vision of the world; his intent was to offer solutions that had qualities, spaces, shapes, colours and materials that appeal to the growth of the self-responsible individual and placed the man as a part of its natural environment.
Depu’s approach to architecture is largely inspired by those concepts.
Depu offers project design to realise organic architectural units that encourage the inclusion of the human and environmental dimensions in construction.
On demand, Depu also organises training around Living Organic Architecture and tours to visit major realisations by organic architects.
