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?

People/Place/Occasion

When Aldo van Eyck talks about architecture as being either one style or another, do you agree with that statement? Or is it a better approach to include the past, present, and the future into what we design and not to relish too much on one part in particular, but to encompass all of them?

Craft/Making/Tectonics

It seems the idea of pre-fabrication in architecture is still ringing ever clearly today as it was when it was first proposed in the beginnings of modernism in architecture. Is the idea of pre-fabrication in architecture seem to be a solution to the way we make things, or is workmanship still something that should be kept in high esteem and practiced in the making of things?

An open system architecture...

If the back of Clyde's pick-up could easily be turned into an open system, could architects design buildings that could be open systems with themselves and not closed ones run on machines? If so, what would it even look like?

Globalization Crisis

In the case of Wendell Berry's strong advocacy of agrarianism, is that really the only way to solve our ongoing problem of globalization? Or is there another way? Or is it even a problem?