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TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC OF PERFORMANCE

Growing Vine Street, SvR with Buster Simpson and Carlson Architects

performance

aesthetics

"We are human in good part because of the particular way we

affiliate with other organisms. They are the matrix in which the human

mind originated and is permanently rooted, and they offer the challenge

and freedom innately sought."

"if a landscape component appears 'beautiful' its beauty is not an inalienable quality of

itself; it derives from the contribution which it seems,

actually or symbolically, to be capable of making to our

chances of biological survival in the environment of which both we and it form a part."

“Aesthetic pleasures are more reflective or cognitive. They involve comparing, contrasting, fitting things

into patterns, and figuring out meanings and connections.

Perceptual pleasures become aesthetic when they are, in a sense,

conceptualized."

elegant solutionsSalginatobel Bridge, Robert Maillart

Maple Valley Library, SvR with Swift Co. and Cutler Architects

"for us to deem a work...elegant, it is not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of a demanding technical or natural predicament…We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated.”

3AM courage

RELEASE(LIBERAR)

tradition

Le Corbusier portrait, Morten Lonvig

“L’avion accuse!”

Garrett Eckbo, author of “Modern Landscapes for Living”

process

Candlestick Point State Recreation Area , Hargreaves Associates

Glue Rundown, Robert Smithson

boundariessidewalk in front of my house

REVEAL(REVELAR)

structure & materialsAlcoa Garden, Garrett Eckbo

Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum, Oscar Neimeyer

Flavin House, Richard Neutra

phenomena

Ice Fence, Michael Van Valkenburgh

Thermal Bath at Vals, Peter Zumthor

AMD & ART, T. Allen Comp and Julie Bargman

eco-revelatory

Shop Creek restoration, Bill Wenk

“Spine-erf” on Yale Avenue Campus, SvR with NBBJ

infra-revelatory

FRAME(MOLDAR)

scale and p.o.v.Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks, Herbert Bayer

Double Negative, Michael Heizer

Oxbow Park, Jones & Jones (Nate Cormier)

messiness

ROOT(ENRAIZAR)

in bioregion

criticallyBloedel Reserve, Rich Haag

Magnolia Branch Library, Paul Hayden Kirk

critical bioregionalism?

Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center,Jones & Jones (Nate Cormier and Mark Johnson)

critical bioregionalism?

Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center,Jones & Jones (Nate Cormier and Mark Johnson)

critical bioregionalism?

Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center,Jones & Jones (Nate Cormier and Mark Johnson)

MEASURE(MEDIR)

models

hydrologic modeling

thermal analysis with Graphisoft’s Ecotect suite

designed experiments

34th Street Ferry Terminal,Ken Smith LA (Alex Felson)

Revival Field, Mel Chin

Mt. Baker Ridge Viewpoint,Jones & Jones

(Nate Cormier & Mark Johnson)

earth instruments

Mt. Baker Ridge Viewpoint,Jones & Jones

(Nate Cormier & Mark Johnson)

instruments

GRAFT(ENXERTAR)

program reflects cultural values

Pleasure Ground1850-1900

Reform Park1900-1930

Recreation Facility1930-1965

Open Space Systems1965-?

Ecological Park1990-present

ergonomics of the cityErgonomics is the process of translating human actions and needs into physical forms of engineered or built systems. It involves designing the work or activity environment for human safety, comfort and satisfaction, as well as for optimum performance.

GI APPS

Designing the 21st Century Street, Brooklyn, New York

HIGH PERFORMANCELANDSCAPE CASE STUDY

GI APPS

4th Ave. is a major commercial through route, 9th St. is more residential

GI APPS

park creek greenway

urb bulbs

multiway biovard

the confluence

"A life in harmony with Nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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