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<title>Site, Ascendant: Landscape and Architecture : Responses</title>
<description>Design Observer ::Â Join the Discussion</description>
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<dc:date>2011-01-05T23:16:03-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Site, Ascendant: Landscape and Architecture"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[David, I agree with you on the "why it is happening" ...there are many sectional layers of experience....and just think, it all started as a single 'line' in plan!....the reduction of that single act embodies all those sections of experience!]]></description>
	<author>Jeff Brown</author>
	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/site-ascendant/21159/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2011-01-05T23:16:03-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Site, Ascendant: Landscape and Architecture"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[I have enjoyed the content of these essays, particularly the willingness to observe that massive constructions such as Roden Crater are not "environmental" in any biological sense (or that a patron saint such as Murcutt is, in the end, still building stand-alone single family houses that are only as "off-the-grid" and "sustainable" as the Range Rover, Fed-Ex, and strict enforcement of property rights will allow).<br />
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But the truly striking and original you've saved for last: concluding with lyrics from Rush! <br />
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Prog rock offers many observations on landscape and architecture - a reading of Tschumi's Acropolis Museum against Rush's epic Hemispheres! HdM's Beijing Stadium as filtered through King Crimson's Discipline! - that it's refreshing to see this rich vein finally Tap'd. <br />
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Look forward to the next in the series - here's to writing in 9/8 time signatures. ]]></description>
	<author>Anthem!</author>
	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/site-ascendant/21159/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2010-12-19T02:59:39-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Site, Ascendant: Landscape and Architecture"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[For me the pointing angles of the VVM are the LEAST interesting aspect of its site specificity. I would argue (see above about SPL) that that pointing is merely a convenient means to publicly justify a geometry here-to-for not associated with public architectures. But that does not mean the VVM is not a masterpiece of site response. There are many subtle and beautiful moves: the ring of trees that, in conjunction with the cut (and an encircling sidewalk), suggests a mound (a form long associated with burial); the protective step that adds visceral weight to the reflective wall; the sectional condition, which banishes the noise of the Mall; the southern exposure that makes a microclimate in winter; the reflective granite, which includes the passerby in defining site, etc., etc.. I do think the essays point to "why this is happening!"]]></description>
	<author>David Heymann</author>
	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/site-ascendant/21159/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2010-12-16T17:04:52-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Site, Ascendant: Landscape and Architecture"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[People have been making architecture in particular ways sensitive to particular places forever. And I'm always amazed that Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial is used as an example of site-specificity when it has, as far as I can tell, nothing to do with the site that it's on other than pointing to the Washington Monument. The concept that the site in architecture is "moving from setting to source" has a nice alliteration, but like all generalities it reveals very little and is dependent on careful storytelling. A responsible essay would try to explore why this is happening, if indeed it is.]]></description>
	<author>Tom</author>
	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/site-ascendant/21159/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2010-12-16T11:31:09-05:00</dc:date>
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