Landscape ArchitectureSEM 5

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She has a personal way of going to the heart of the matter and identifying what is required. Then she devises landscape solutions that often seem intuitive but are, in fact, rooted in serious research.

- Ar. Norman Foster(2)

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Kathryn GustafsonAmerican Landscape Architect

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Introduction

Her work includes the Gardens of the Imagination in Terrasson, France; a city square in Évry France; and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. She has won awards and prizes including the Millennium Garden Design Competition. She is known for her ability to create sculptural forms, using earth, grass, stone and water. (3)

Selected Awards (4)

1. American Society of Landscape Architects: Gold Medal (2008)2. National Heritage of the 20th Century (2007)3. Finalist: Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards for Landscape Design (2005)4. Royal Designer for Industry U.K (RDI: 2005)5. Remarkable Garden (2004)6. Design Merit Award (2003)7. Chrysler Design Award (2001)8. Honorary Fellow (1999)9. Jane Drew Prize (1998)10. Architectural Medal Decoration (1993)

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Design Philosophy

Gustafson has a list of questions for any project she undertakes: “Where’s the water? Is there water? Who were the native peoples? And what are the myths? Each project is born of the land it’s on, and of the people it’s for.” (2)

Gustafson-Porter’s site readsWe look for complexity in simplicity, producing bold schemes with a high degree of textural and seasonal variation.We put people at the heart of our designs; spending time understanding the local community and listening to their needs. We strive to design simple, uncluttered and barrier-free environments which promote choice, flexibility of use and enable everyone to participate equally.(1)

watermyths

myths don’t go away – they become silent because nobody is listening. (2)

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Les Jardins de l'Imaginaire,Terrasson-Lavilledieu, Dordogne Department of France

Designed in 1996 by landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson and architect Ian Ritchie, Les Jardins de l'Imaginaire (Gardens of the Imagination) in Terrasson-Lavilledieu, in the Dordogne Department of France, is a public park and contemporary garden, classified by the Committee of Parks and Gardens of the Ministry of Culture as one of the Notable Gardens of France.

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Les Jardins de L'imaginaire is set in a natural setting to explain the evolution of gardens throughout history.Gustafson says, "the site plays host to a series of elements which evoke the history of the Garden across the ages and continents. These elements present a selection of the growing volume of information about gardens: historic, modern, and vernacular.”

"The mayor wanted Terrasson to become a tourist destination, someplace for tourists to stop on their way to the caves. [He] wanted the gardens of the world, he wanted a little Italy, he wanted a little Versailles, a little Japan, and very Disney-esque. And not at all the honorable, historical approach that France is known for…” she continued. (6)

“We came into the competition saying you cannot buy history. But one thing you can do is explain history"

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This is contemporary garden making at its most delicious and intriguing. It uses 13 evocative paintings of myths and legends related to the universal history of gardens;the axis of winds; perspectives; elementary gardens; the sacred wood; the tunnel of vegetation; the theatre of greenery; the water garden; the terraces of moss; the topiary garden; the rose garden; the iris garden; fountains, cascades, and basins. It uses simple natural elements; trees, flowers, water and stone to suggest the passage of mankind from nature to agriculture to the city. (2) (7)

Design

Visitors are taken on a journey through time and space, with sections that evoke the formality of Le Nôtre*, with a rose garden, a "sacred wood", an amphitheatre, a hi-tech modern greenhouse, a mossy woodland and, most joyful of all, a water garden of spouting jets - both tall and short. (7)

It is not a huge garden, but so packed with meaning that most visitors take a guided tour.

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* André Le Nôtre was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He designed the park of the Palace of Versailles, and his work represents the height of the French formal garden style.(8)

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In regards to the principles of landscape architecture,• Unity• Line• Form• Texture• Colour• Balance• Simplicity and Variety• Emphasis• Sequence

Principles of Landscape Architecture

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Line of Sight

Balance, Simplicity and Texture Texture

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Symmetry, Sequence and Colour

Line, Texture and Form

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(1) - http://www.gustafson-porter.com/design/

Bibliography

(2) - http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/sky-mine?page=full

(3) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Gustafson

(5) - "Terrasson - Garden of the Imagination" by Grahamec - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrasson_-_Garden_of_the_Imagination.jpg#/media/File:Terrasson_-_Garden_of_the_Imagination.jpg

(4) - http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/kathryn_gustafson

(6) - http://www.nationalbuildingmuseum.net/pdf/gustafson_summary.pdf

(8) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Le_N%C3%B4tre

(7) - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/parisandaround/733222/France-gardens-of-the-imagination-continued.html

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