LARC 1950 - Lecture 14
Postmodernism
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Peter Walker
→ Tanner Fountain
- Changed the way fountain design was thought of
- Challenged what fountains could be
- Softscape vs hardscape
- Fusion of the built world and natural environment
- Fountain is not centered of placed along an axis
- Straddles and interface between asphalt walkway and lawn
- Encompasses two trees
- Connects constructed and natural worlds
- Melds organic and artful primeval and modern
→ rock mist garden (find name)
- Uses a fine mist instead of jet streams in his rock fountains
→ Children's Park and Pond in San Diego
- Uses jagged aesthetics to work well together
Martha Schwartz
→ Splice Garden
- Whitehead institute fro biomedical research
- No living plants, but everything i so green that one feels illusion of garden realty
- Japanese Zen Garden. Green aquarium gravel is raked in familiar sand patterns
- French garden with steel hedges covered in astroturf
→ Bagel Garden
- Inspo from french formal garden
- Geometric shapes
- Bagels spray painted gold, laid out in pattern in garden
- Pushing boundaries
- Ephemeral, did not stick around for a long time
→ Frog garden
- Fun
- Doesn't take herself too seriously
- Laying with the ideas of what landscape design is
→ Yorkville Park
- Express he Victorian style of collecting
- Collecting landscapes of ontario
- Ex. brought a huge chunk of the muskoka rock to a space in toronto
Bernard Tschumi
→ Parc de le Villette
- 85 acres of open space as part of a large-scale redevelopment project
- Red geometric structure is focal point
Alain Provost and GIlles Clement
→ Parc André Citroën
- Site of a former car plant
- Organized by precise geometry
- 35 acre
- Interpretation of a 17th century french garden
- Six themed gardens
- Alchemical symbology
- Each is associated with a metal, a planet, a day of the week, a state of water, and a
sense (the sixth being intuition)
- Water channels
- Plaza w dancing jets of water
- An elevated walkway
- Reflecting pool
- Long diagonal path cuts across the park and creates a variety of dynamic spatial
experiences.
Environmental Design
- Huge amounts of weed killers, fertilizers, and pesticides were dumped on the earth
- “Silent Spring” by rachel carson
- First Earth Day celebration in 1970, also advanced the foundation of ecological
awareness
- Creative solutions to environmental problems
- Science of biological systems
- Develop solutions that are beautiful, functional, and sustainable
- Bioremediation and rehabilitation of brownfield sites, landfill reclamation, and wetland
restoration
→ Jens Jensen
- Conscious of the environmental themes
- Established a landscape design practice in chicago
- the naturalistic style
- Believed in the social benefit of public parks and recreational facilities
- Distinguished by his use of native plants and local stone
- Letting nature speak for itself
- Inspired by the natural meadows and woodland plantings
- Established a “folk” school of horticulture and arts in wisconsin, called Clearing, in 1935
→ Ian McHarg
- Holistic approach to design
- Design w nature (11969)
- Site analysis techniques based on the carrying capacity of the land
- Methodology based on coordinated overlays of maps
- Foundation of graphic information systems (GIS) technologies
- Opportunities and constraints to assess the many social and envirmoneltal sosts of a
project
→ Gas Works Park
- Seattle, washington
- Design in 1975 by richard Haag
- 19-acre site of an abandoned gas plant
- Industrial remain were repurposed as picnic and play structures
→ Duisburg-Nord Park
- Germany
- Peter Latz, 1994
- Transformed a 500-acre abandoned steel and coal production facility
- Public open space
- Re bunkers, smokestacks, and a blast furnace became climbing walls, garden rooms,
and sculptural features
Land Artists
- Work with the earth itself as medium
- Ephemeral nature
- Emphasis on process
- Challenge traditional notions of art
Ian Hamlton
→ Little Sparta
- Concrete poetry in sculptural form
- 275 artworks by the artist
- The garden poem, sited within an area
Robert Smithson
- Spiral jetty in great Salt Lake, Utah
- Powerful icon of the land art movement
Walter de Maria
- lightning field
Agnes Denes
→ Wheatfield - A Confrontation
- Contrast between urban and global hunger
- Challenging society’s priorities and the fragility of nature
Mary Miss - South cove
Christ and Jeanne Claude - Valley curtain
- Surrounding Islands
- Running Fence
- The Gates
Andy Goldsworthy
- Ephemeral or unseen process of nature
- Visual expression to ecological process
- Designing plant material takes a lot of artistic skill
- He show the potential for art on the natural world
Piet Odolf {planting design}
- Dutch landscape architect
- Plants in large sweeping masses
- Plays with colour and texture of individual plants in context to whole garden/composition
- Seasonal
- Naturalistic approach: mimic natural ecosystems , with plants arranged in flowing drifts
and masses
- Emphasis on texture and form: Structural qualities of plants
- Seasonal interest: visual interest throughout the year, with a succession of blooms and
changing textures.
- Sustainability water conservation and the use of native plants
- Uses plant material as composition
