landscape.site.time

"Americans are of two minds as to how we ought to live" begins Jackson in his "A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time" essay.

How do we as designers keep the sense of place alive with the constant push and pull of opinions on how we 'ought to live?'

What is midway between the European community and the urban sprawl of America?

weathering.shadow.memory

do you feel, like Anderson, that shadow is more important than compositions of form?
when designing, how is thinking in shadow different from other ways of thinking about design?

proportion

do you feel it is important to look at classical architecture to derive proportions for modern (new) architecture? or should we base our designs off of a new type of proportioning system?