How they manage to do that seems to be their secret. But there is
one thing that strikes me: many of these architectural objects that fuse
with the landscape make a powerful or at least a distinctive impression.
Basically a large object-a church, a castle, a compact village, a dam-
always looks comparably small in a mountain landscape.
It doesn’t out-
shine its surroundings; it brings out the grandeur of the landscape. I
can imagine that it is still possible today for someone to place a substantial