A proposal for enlightened corporations with a concern for the social implications resulting from prolonged neglect of human needs in our mechanized society.- Lithuanian-American environment artist Aleksandra Kasuba, 1970
A corporation is to build and maintain a Retreat House to provide its people with relief from everyday demands and pressures of the office. The Retreat house is to be used by all corporation employees on a rotational basis, on the corporation’s time and at its expense.
The visitor will spend most of his time in the Galleries, where the elemental displays take place. The Galleries are designed to feel enourmous, seemingly without walls, and to sound like echo chambers. Here the visitor will encounter the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water.
Given time unregimented, confronted with Elemental ocurances, and free from a constant rush of information which stifles natural reactions, the visitor would be able to experie...
