James Wines is the founder and president of SITE, an environmental art and architecture organization chartered in New York City in 1970. His visual art, architecture, landscape designs, and public projects are based on a site-specific response to surrounding contexts, and he advocates for ‘integrative thinking’ as a means of including multi-disciplinary ideas from outside the traditional design professions. His hand drawings for SITE propose a contextual interpretation of buildings and public spaces. For most designers, graphic representation is used primarily to describe a precise set of formal intentions. But, Wines proposes architecture can be interpreted fragmentarily and inclusively instead of as a sculpture sitting on a pedestal. His recent drawings describe a condition of ‘passages’ proposing that walls can serve as sponge-like membranes to reflect social, cultural, psychological, or topographical content.