Category: art
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Suburban Still Life
Another upcoming highlight to our class will include a visit by Linda K. Johnson, a dancer and performance artist most known locally for both the work recently at South Waterfront and the ongoing series of dances that celebrate the local legacy of Anna and Lawrence Halprin and Portland fountains entitle “The City Dance of Lawrence…
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Remembering Lawrence Halprin (or at least some of his projects)
In the blogosphere, this is old news now. It’s been a week since I heard about the death of landscape architectural icon Lawrence Halprin – actually the day after while in a meeting where part of the topic was discussing the iconic nature of his park sequence in Portland as inspiration for a small plaza…
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Park(ing) Day
One month to go… should be the best ever. We are joining the folks up in Seattle from People’s Parking Lot(s) as they take over a parking lot and transform it into Central Park(ing) with festivities, designs, small businesses, renewable energy, a design charrette and more. We shall see how many goodies we can pack…
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Future Pastoral
Beautiful images via BLDGBLOG from some work by Nathan Freise that remind me of the wonderful techno-aesthetic urban imagery of LTL and Lebbeus Woods, with a bit of Andrew Wyeth thrown in for good measure. Amazing stuff. :: image via BLDGBLOGSome info: “Freise’s series of inkjet prints depict experimental architecture projects. His hybrid illustrations combine…
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Modern Industry
Cool image via People and Place > Poster Cabaret: Modern Industry by Adam Hancher: “…print is based upon communication within modern industry, and the relevance of renewable energy sources”:: image via Poster Cabaret
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Suburban Fantasies
These visualizations of suburban patterns by Ross Racine offer “…fictive urban patterns, mostly suburbias, surrounded by a desert or agricultural looking environment.” (via Landezine) :: image via LandezineThis is definitely a compelling idea to both elucidate and satirize the ubiquitous suburban patterns, and offers some commentary about the drivers of these forms. I thought at…
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Annals of Artifice
This project made me think specifically of the MOMA rooftop garden by Ken Smith… something about artifice that seems somewhat contrived… but I guess that’s the point 🙂 Via Treehugger: “Purists sneered at this garden made out of plasticine when it was first exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show. Designed by the star of Top…
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New Light on No Man’s Land
Joyce van den Berg, a Dutch landscape architect, has some interesting plans to memorialize the thin strip of land that divided East and West Germany. From Spiegel Online: “The “death strip” or No Man’s Land was the ground between the two Germanys. In the inner city the border consisted of an actual concrete wall, the…
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Reinterpreting a Classic
Via Treehugger: “In 1982 Agnes Denes created one of the first examples of ecological art–she planted a wheatfield on an abandoned piece of land in downtown New York. Now, 27 years later, her work is being reinterpreted and updated, only this time in the east end of London. A derelict site has been planted with…
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The Writing on the Wall
The ability to use public art as a form of expression is quite rare. Installations are often visual or have a tacit (or expressed) ‘do not touch’ policy – creating the idea of public without the opportunity for real interation. A few installations try to break this boundary – offering a platform for expression. One…