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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