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I focus on the recovery of the designed landscape the landscape shaped to convey human intention, providing acomodation and, perhaps, even beauty. If it is indeed the quality of the designed landscape that has been lost, we must also ask wether or not, or in what ways, it should be recalled.

Indeed, time is the crucial dimension of landscape, and time may ultimately be the single most important reason that architects are drawn outside their buildings... Change is the direct byproduct of time. It is necesary to understand that many an elaborate panting plan has materialized only as a few pitifully wispy trees propped up by massive staking.

The second dimension of time in the landscape is cyclical. Succesions of night and day are underscored by the passage of the sun, but the annual rhythms of branch and bloom are perhaps more noticeable than the diurnal, particularly in climates where the four seasons are distinct and the vegetation is deciduous.

Landscape designed in conscience with the annual cycles resonate with their connection to the place and reflect the life within it.