The development of civilization has directly relied on the destruction of Earth's surface to extract the materials we use to build our cities. Earth's resources are finite, and its surface is the dermal interface which we use as a normative base to build upwards from. We must preserve the Earth's remaining undeveloped land. Surfaces that have been augmented beyond natural restoration will derive a new architecture that has complete utility. The stereotomic modus operandi for excavated urbanism will act as a self-sufficient neural network for creating form-based vestiges of civilizations with a chthonic relationship to Earth's surface.
