I don’t think it’s so bad to have work that steps away from the obvious and simply creates spaces that just feel good. There may be a lot involved in creating that good feeling, and we might consider it a compliment if a client or visitor to a space comes to realize over time why [...]
Archive for June, 2008
It’s like a good mango
Posted in What we're thinking on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Streamers
Posted in Miscellaneous on June 24, 2008 | No Comments »
One picture deserves another, or perhaps two. Your words about the aerosol effect of repeated forms in a relatively diffuse volume reminded me of the most recent version of my streamers project. On New Year’s Day a couple of years ago I hung some red streamers from saplings behind one of the much-noted Norway maples, [...]
They’re Growing Mechanical Trees . . .
Posted in 1 on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
. . . they grow to their full height, and then they chop themselves down!
(with thanks to Laurie Anderson)
Landscape is certainly all that (beautiful, forceful, visibly “designed”), or can be, and I’m not going to tell you there’s anything self-effacing about Le Notre, or Walker, or even a sensitive guy like Halprin, who embraces the ephemerality [...]
Well, but…
Posted in Places on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Hmm. We do deal with ‘quiet’ materials, often (those Crimson Kings and Palace Purples usually look like pretenders to me), and our work often disappears within years, if not sooner. (Think of Lee Weintraub’s little churchfront plaza in the Bronx — a spiffy little urban landscape in the mid-80s, gone by the mid-90s, for but [...]
You’ve just self-deprecated yourself out of a job
Posted in 1 on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
(with apologies to the New Yorker)
Is Landscape Architecture a self-effacing art?
Here are some ways that might be the case:
Physically: It’s very cool that our work fosters growth, and even cooler that we can be open to processes of death and decay. But when you read a little about garden restoration, you find yourself reading [...]
Grown to fit
Posted in Plants on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s true; there is something odd about taking a field-grown specimen tree or shrub, full on all sides (and often pruned to make it look even fuller, a practice that sometimes drives me nuts), and placing it in a spot where it won’t get as much sun and where it’ll look a bit off for [...]
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