Wintersession of my second year I had the opportunity to study Robert Irwin’s Four Categories of Sculpture (from his 1985 essay, Being and Circumstance) in the context of landscape architecture. Taking each of his categories: site dominant, site adjusted, site specific and site determined/conditioned, and applying them to landscape architecture.

This independent study would change my perceptions of sculpture — that it is not distinct from the landscape, and its practice should not be confined to a separation from the landscape. The following are all four categories as originally laid out on 24×36: