Category: representation
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Accidents & Opportunities
I always seem to be looking for/at imagery from magazines, blogs, books and websites in searching for Vegetated Architecture examples and other inventive ways of blending landscape and urbanism. Via computer generated graphics, photos, and drawings, the media and message is varied in form and success. There are moments where this documentation, either through accident…
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New Suburban Landscape
There are some things that make me pine away for being in close proximity to Minneapolis. One is some really good friends that I went to school with that reside there. The other is the Walker Art Center, which seems to address landscape much more often than is done here in Portland. Maybe they have…
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Fakery is the New PoMo
Paper or Plastic… Fake or Real. No, these are not the perennial Christmas question, or a variation of the paper or plastic debate, but another round of abstractions of all things landscape. I stumbled upon an old post on Strange Harvest that had some amazing images of design for Montreal’s 1967 World’s Expo (aka Expo…
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Bio-diversity
A meditation on plants, picking up on some earlier threads of vegetated abstractions, whether they be sculptural or metaphorical, aesthetic or functional. First is the idea of global warming, and it’s impacts on the biological functioning of plants. While often reported as a purely negative or neutral, the shifts of hardiness zone allows for greater…
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Artifice and Landscape
Everyone is publishing their best of 2007 blogs, and there are a number of interesting items of note. The amount of imagery showing buildings and landscape integrated was notable. My current interest is in seeing how many of these ‘green’ roofs and facades are actually feasible – and how many are merely the ‘green mantle’…
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Modes of Representation
Back to Integrating Habitats… and the need for graphic representation techniques that are up to the challenges of representing time-based processes in viable ways. There are two polar opposites on the continuum – one is traditional graphic representation techniques, involving the ubiquitous rendered site plan, sketches, and such. The other is the deconstructed graphic that…