Stop Animation using short answer from What is Architecture and 100 Other Questions by Rasmus Wærn and Gert Wingårdh. Question 58: Does a place have a soul? Short Answer: No, it has several. Long Answer: "Places are characterized by nature and by nurture. They bear their geological inheritance in silence, but are acculturated by weather and by people. A dramatic birth and an extreme childhood create places of strong character. In such places, building is a delicate matter. Where architecture ought to refrain from asserting its power with raw force, it can still gather up the energy of the landscape with even the subtlest gesture. If the character of the site is more elusive, the responsibility to interpret it is all the greater. The first building on a site always creates a contrast. It can wipe out the relationships that makes the place special. But, with the right touch, the history of the terrain, its weather, and the traces left by man can all be made visible. The character of its soul has changed and the building itself becomes a part of its history."
Sources:
+ Wærn, Rasmus & Wingårdh, Gert, What is Architecture (and 100 Other Questions), Laurence King Publishing LTD, 2015.
+ Vashti Bunyan. "If I Were." Lookaftering, FatCat Records, 2005.
