ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a method of exercising the material imagination using the homophones: sighting, siting, and citing. It argues that architecture and landscape architecture the useful or productive arts develop by drawing physical materials materially. Of all the materials modern and ancient agents of change air is the medium of free movement. Different drawing techniques convey feelings through material visualization to different degrees. Designers as artists explore through material attributes and their performative capabilities seeking the means to design for the total imaginative experience possible with uncorrupted intent. Emotive proposals are coupled with building materials such as earth that is mounded up, levelled or cut into. Concrete walls retain, trees frame or provide a sheltering canopy, and paved paths encourage human movement through the woods. Natural materials such as earth, wood and sky are precursors to the formed solid walls resulting in an object that is capable of participating in culture.
