Landscape/Site/Time

In architecture, when designing a project, it seems the potential building being designed and the site it is on have a very close relationship. One being very contingent on the other and vice verse. The site we work with on these projects, seems to be a petty substantial aspect of it. Is the site as important as most architects make it out to be? or is it just a piece of the Earth that can be constructed, flattened or anything to make it a place for the buildings and structures we design? I mean, there are plenty of bull-dozers in the world to go around, right?

Weathering/Shadow/Memory

With the ineveitable fact of weathering being a factor that effects and will change the built world, and they ways we have seen this implemented into designs, do you think that including in our designs the way the natural elements will ultimatley change the physical aspects of the built world, is important to us as designers and architects?

Beginnings/Order/Proportion

In Juhani Pallasmaa's essay "The Geometry of Feeling", he talks about "...the relationship between architectural form and how architecture is experienced." I think he is bringing up a great point of the neglect of the experintial quailty of architecture and how that is being so overlooked with the focus of our designs being so much about the exterior and form of buildings, instead of how we inhabit them. Do you agree with this, or is this just a point of progression for architecture and what it is moving towards?