There isn't always a necessary need to always frame views. Sometimes windows are used only to allow light into the building. However in certain situations a window of a framed view in this case can reveal the site in a way never seen before. The building can make you pause it can make you notice what is already there. Maybe you would have never stopped to look at it if it wasn't framed. For the Salk institute, that view exists on both sides of the building but when you stand in the court yard it all that you see drawing you in. Other times maybe in a urban situation you have a view regardless just because you want to have windows. So instead of just making windows the views of other space can actually develop the shape of the building. Finally the site could be more important than the building itself so that, the buildings form literally becomes a landing trying to re-situate you in the site in a new way.
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