"Kahn thought the building should make visible the essential "structures" of the natural environment, particularly the characteristics of the local landscape and the changing of light." (Jonathan A. Hale) - Photographs usually express the openness and serenity of the plaza, but not its humanly-scaled gesture to the site and ocean beyond. The Institute is a geometrized clearing in the landscape, and continually references and expresses the landscape. Textured surface.  Materiality. Ideas for addressing the landscape.  The genome building shows great potential for the creation of an architectural dialogue with Mount Royal and the Resevoir.