In “The Function of the Studio,” Daniel Buren argues that works of art exist within one of two frames, the artist’s studio, a rich dynamic environment and the ‘birthplace’ of art, or the gallery, a sterilized ‘cemetery’ of finished works. This thesis seeks to merge these two frames through the development of a new museum typology for land art celebrating works through their process of creation, decay, and archive. 

Land Art: art that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making structures in the landscape using natural materials such as rocks or twigs