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Human had a long history of demonstrate their will to shape, control their surrounding and understanding the lifelike world. Thus, it is no bewilderment that mankind had gone this far in cast awayd technology. By better our science and technology, we are able to understand and research the world. This will permit mankind to create more stability thus avoiding some of the do from great fluctuations of nature forces explore the truth of myths. With this theme in mind, I find it to be a very common characteristic among the three articles by Rapoport (Australian Aborigines And The Definition Of Place), Hertzberger (Lessons For Student In Architecture) and, Deyner (African Traditional Architecture), which could possibly apologise the difference in the definition of place both by the condition and the locale. It is not so a good deal as the level of technology that these cultures populate in, but more relevantly, the period of technology improvement they are life-time in whic h defined their indigenous landscape architecture.Rapoport believes that Australian Aborigines, "cooperated with nature rather than to subdue it" (Rapoport, 1980p.44.) I found this to be a point that is sanely accurate but not precise. The fact that these Australian aborigines did not advance in technology, are forced to accept nature as it is. As a result, they live their lives naively through myths and stories instead of research and development. This is transparent when compared to Deyners article, explaining that the more advanced (this advancement is draw from the fact that these less nomadic Africans do trade and had farms) Africans developed more permanent dwellings, practical buildings (huts) which created a clearer boundary to identify their territory. However, the Africans minute building structures are still primitive and they are only constructed to serve a prime purpose homogeneous say, a small mud granary to store food. On the other hand, Hertzbergers &q uotLesson for student in Architecture" dwell deeper into concept of space and how we discriminate and articulate building structures when he mentioned, "question of sensing the required outdo and proximity between people ...purpose of space." (Hertzberger, 1991p.100)This level of division and detachment from natural dwelling showed a precise mentality of modern era adult male though I could not say that we are now in the 20th century and do not appreciate or disapproval nature. But the point is that, modern era human had so much control and complex thought that enable us articulate our confinement (concept of space).