Miwon Kwon’s book ‘One Place after Another’ discussed site specific art and public art. It talked about some of the changes through the last few decades. The site specific artworks seemed to start just like other artworks which were presented but with much more freedom as art. Over time this seemed to change into these artworks having to relate to the architecture that surrounded them.

These days you still find a lot of the pieces have to relate to the architecture or, more commonly, the concept for what the architecture is used.

The Government Philip Tower has public and site specific artworks all around the buildings. The artworks that are displayed around and in the building came from commissions but for this a group of artists were found by Macquarie Gallery?? These artists had to propose artworks and make replica models of the pieces. The works which were chosen to be presented were the artworks which related to the site or the architecture. An example of this was, for Museum of Sydney, the work “Edge of the Trees’ by Fiona Foley and Janet Lawrence which was designed specifically to fit its site. The work complements the building as well as being used to purposely to cover the architecture (row of Victorian Terraces) situated behind the artwork.

Recently a temporary public work was presented outside the Conservatorium of Music. This work was different to the Miwon Kwon’s later ideas as the work did not visually go with the buildings and seemed very out of place; instead it followed a concept. The piece was meant to work as a wind harp and make noises when the wind went through the piece. There was a slight problem; as the Conservatorium building blocked the flow of the wind the piece was left useless in regard the sound it was supposed to make – it was completely silent. The work was created by an architect Joe Snell yet its colour, shape and form felt very out of place.