In a recent, rare interview, Selva summarized his life's work with characteristic quietude: "If I have done my job well, in a hundred years, my buildings will have vanished—reclaimed by the roots and the vines. And I will consider that my greatest success."
Selva’s theoretical contribution to the arts is his concept of the "Third Landscape." He posits that there are three environments: the First Landscape (untouched wilderness), the Second Landscape (agriculture and urbanization), and the Third Landscape—the intersection where human design exists to heal the scars of the Second. george selva