Literary Dose #6

Even if [Rem] Koolhaas's ecological credentials are dubious, he and the landscape urbanists are ecological insofar as they read relationships betweens things as much as objects in and of themselves, as has been architecture's want. In privileging the field over the object, architects, in theory and in scope, are now becoming landscape architects. But one wonders whether they mean to assert that landscape is the infrastructure to which all other infrastructure elements or networks are answerable, or whether they are just more effectively getting on with the job of covering the entire Earth with the brutalist mechanics of the city.

- "An Art of Instrumentality: Thinking Through Landscape Urbanism," by Richard Weller, in The Landscape Urbanism Reader (1993), edited by Charles Waldheim.