Ryker has always taught her students, and advised her clients, to think about architecture as being "of the place," speaking reverence to it, rather than being forced, unimaginative, cheap, trite, tacky or "out of place". She says that the boom sweeping across Bozeman and Gallatin Valley is producing plenty of the latter. Newness for newness sake should not be an excuse for saying "anything goes" or that no one should have a right to serve as the "taste police". Architecture that violates the aesthetic of a nature-based community provides plenty of fodder for criticism.