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Showing posts with label Focus Week 3. Show all posts

2.2.12

Remarkable Landscape Architects

Martha Schwartz

Martha Schwartz is Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture. A landscape architect and artist for over 29 years, Schwartz teaches a core studio and design studios focusing on artistic expression in the landscape. Her option studios have included: Miasteczko Wilanow, Milan’s South Park, Cooper Union, Detmold, Gold Mining in Geraldton, Design in a Box, Art and Surface Mine Reclamation, Design in a Box, Quincy Landfill – Art, Park, Parking, The Redesign of Jacob Javitz Plaza, New York City.
Her firm, Martha Schwartz, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachussetts and Martha Schwartz Partners in London, UK, specializes in landscape design and site specific public art commission. Her recent projects include Mesa Arts Center in Arizona, Dublin Docklands Grand Canal Square in Ireland, Monte Laar Central Park in Vienna, Qatar Petroleum Headquarters in Doha, Qatar and Natick Mall in Boston, MA. Her work has been shown at the Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art, the Marlborough Gallery in New York City, New Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and Henry Gallery in Seattle.
Schwarz has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Rhode Island School of Design, Ohio State University and Melbourne University in Australia. She has been a visiting artist at Radcliffe College and a resident at the America Academy in Rome.
She is currently a member of the Major of London’s Design Advisory Group, advising the Major on public realm design issues in London. She was awarded an Honorary Fellow of RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) in 2004 and was recently received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland.


Yongsan IBD, Seoul, Korea

Jacob Javits Plaza, New York, NY USA






Grand Canal Square, Dublin, Ireland

11.10.11

Remarkable Landscape Architects


Adriaan Geuze


West 8, founded by Adriaan Geuze in 1987 and based in Rotterdam, is an international office for urban design and landscape architecture. The team includes 75 architects, urban designers, landscape architects, and industrial engineers working around the world on large-scale urban master planning and design projects, landscape interventions, waterfronts, parks, squares, and gardens. West 8 also develops concepts and visions for large-scale planning issues involving global warming, urbanization, and infrastructure.
Geuze won the prestigious Rome Prize in 1990 and founded the SLA (Surrealistic Landscape Architecture) Foundation in 1992. West 8 has won numerous awards, including the Dutch Maaskant Award, the Rosa Barba First European Landscape prize, and the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2005 Geuze curated the 2nd International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. The firm has won many international design competitions, including Governor’s Island in New York, Playa de Palma Mallorca in Spain, and Toronto’s new Central Waterfront.




Jubilee Gardens, London













Governors Island New York, New York














Simcoe Wavedeck, Toronto





28.1.10

PETER COOK on STUFF

STUFF that you run into at AA school






























Structures block people's view

































Peter Cook

Pavement cleaning





Dirty road in front of Trafalgar square








clened by water



They clean usually the road once a year











Cleaned road

25.1.10

Remarkable Landscape Architects





Kathryn Gustafson




Kathryn Gustafson, the Landscape Architect, established her practice in Paris in 1980, working as a sole practitioner in collaboration with architects, artists, and engineers.
Kathryn initially studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City before moving to Paris to study landscape architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage in Versaille, France where she obtained her Diploma in 1979. Through her private practice, she has won a series of high profile landscape projects including the corporate headquarters for Shell, Esso and l’Oreal near Paris, a new park in Terrasson la Villedieu which has become a listed landmark, the Square of Human Rights in Evry and Square Rachmaninov in Paris.
Kathryn Gustafson now works throughout the world with the two offices, Gustafson Porter in London and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol in Seattle









Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, London, 2004

































Old market Square,Nottingham, 2007


























Shoreline Walk, Beirut,2008