If I as a designer want to do justice to the landscape I am working in, I have to take three things into account. First l have to look hard at the landscape, at the woods and trees, the leaves, the grasses, the animated surface of the earth, and then develop a feeling of love for what l see-because we don't hurt what we love. We treat what we love as well as we possibly can. Secondly, I have to take care. That is something I have learned from traditional agriculture, which uses the soil but is, at the same time, sustainable.
It takes care of the things that nourish us. Thirdly, I must try to find the right measure, the right quantity, the right size and the right shape for the desired object in its beloved surroundings. The outcome is attunement, harmony or possibly even tension. l think loving the landscape, looking at it with one’s heart, is requisite to finding the right measure.
But how do l find the right measure? I venture to claim that we all immediately sense if the relationship between the building and the landscape in which it has been placed is disrupted, if the landscape is not