Review: Burns & Kahn: Why Site Matters
In “Why Site Matters”, Burns and Kahn dismantle a long-standing assumption that a site is bound to parcels of land which are assigned to a particular project. Instead, the thought is that the site is a relational field; shaped by history, politics, ecology, and human perceptions. The reading begins by illustrating how different architects faced with the same Olympic Village site constructed entirely different models of what the “site” even was. ...
