Site Surfeit: Office for Soft Architecture Makes the City Confess

Abstract

That mute paysage possesses knowledge; it sees you too. Any language that would heed these facts- that could live up to land or cityscape now, and to its contents encompassed by the presently omnipresent term - has to plot out a hearkening, not an anthropological or aesthetic seizure. That isn't simple; its tantamount to calling for a poetic, a system built out of abeyance. Within an architecture of poetry and vice versa that we could in sincerity call site-specific, sites grammar comes to occupy description, its nomenclature possesses vigilant trifling consciousness; Site peers through language to change me. Lately it makes me corporate. An index mixed by Stacy Doris, the author of Conference, archives the effluent introduction to Lisa Robertsons Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture under a couple of apparently nonconverging foci: I became money and return. How does this work? Rummaging back through the pink black and grey pocketbook to its counterpenetrable opener, one is pointed to these essays' genesis in the altering urban texture of Vancouver, from the sale of the Expo '86 site through the province's 2003 acquisition of the 2010 Winter Olympics. A paragraph records the premise of their authorship:

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