To Be a Culvert. (or Does Landscape Art Underperform)

Is landscape artwork roping larger areas to stun us with their impact as sited within stark “natural” surroundings?
Do we ask the same of architecture as it relates in scale? Perhaps architecture needs to be great architecture or monumental to achieve the effect and experience of successful landscape artwork: that it is beautiful, meaningful, incites return only promising to continue to be equally delightful with each pass, like a book.

Does scale allow landscape art to resonate with landscape urbanism because of the open-air outdoor phenomena, with axes, a particular approach, and varied occupancy like the Sun Tunnels of Nancy Holt that have a particular situatedness to day and night. Light, sun or stars, as view invites the body to positioned particularity in space, the way perhaps the Schouwbergplein in Rotterdam (“Red Crane”) can by the orienting of spotlights. The design of the plaza has been critiqued as underperformative, as the plaza goes unoccupied outside of events. Demands for the programming and proof positive of good design for this urban condition are requirements we wouldn’t dream of imposing on Landscape art. Would we?