Landscape Architecture: Site and Narrative
Martha Leibowitz Rothman
Wednesday, 2-4PM
Jan. 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19
Zoom
Building upon the OUW winter 2024 course, Landscape Architecture: The Public Realm, Infrastructure and Climate Change, this year’s course, Landscape Architecture: Site and Narrative, will focus on landscape architects/ architects and projects based on “story” or narrative. We will explore work that is embedded in the history of a place and how that history inspires the design. (Please note that the earlier course is not a pre-requisite for this course.)
In Class 1, we will begin with Sara Zewde, landscape architect and assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her work and forthcoming book, Olmsted’s Legacy, Slavery and Landscape Architecture, provide a view of Olmsted through a current lens, building upon last year’s discussion of Frederick Law Olmsted whose 19th century landscape architecture practice was rooted in his social ideas. Zewde Studio’s site design for the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, NY, exemplifies her thinking about water/flood plains, history/legacy and climate change.
In Class 2 we will focus on mid 20th – 21st century landscape architects for whom story-telling figures prominently in their work: Lawrence Halprin, west-coast practitioner who created active social spaces for movement; Charles Jencks, architectural theorist and writer who spent many summers in Wellfleet; and Anne Whiston Spirn, early proponent of community-based design. Each of these designers was unique in an era dominated by modernism and formalism.
In Class 3 we will look at two memorials: the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park at Roosevelt Island, originally designed by Louis Kahn in 1974 and realized in 2010-12 by Mitchell-Giurgola Architects; and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, by MASS Design Group.
In Class 4 we will look at the Washington DC Tidal Basin, originally conceived in the 1800s and reconceptualized in 2023 as the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab. The Ideas Lab was included in last year’s course; this year we will discuss climate change linked to the theme of narrative.
In class 5, we will conclude by looking at work by notable landscape architects whose work exemplifies regenerative landscape design, Bas Smets of Brussels, Belgium, and currently teaching at Harvard GSD; and Julie Bargmann, Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia and founding principal of D.I.R.T.
Each class will begin with a slide presentation, followed by discussion. There will be some optional reading, but assignments will be mainly video/YouTube lectures by the landscape architects and architects. Maximum enrollment of 20.
Martha Leibowitz Rothman
Wednesday, 2-4PM
Jan. 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19
Zoom
Building upon the OUW winter 2024 course, Landscape Architecture: The Public Realm, Infrastructure and Climate Change, this year’s course, Landscape Architecture: Site and Narrative, will focus on landscape architects/ architects and projects based on “story” or narrative. We will explore work that is embedded in the history of a place and how that history inspires the design. (Please note that the earlier course is not a pre-requisite for this course.)
In Class 1, we will begin with Sara Zewde, landscape architect and assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her work and forthcoming book, Olmsted’s Legacy, Slavery and Landscape Architecture, provide a view of Olmsted through a current lens, building upon last year’s discussion of Frederick Law Olmsted whose 19th century landscape architecture practice was rooted in his social ideas. Zewde Studio’s site design for the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, NY, exemplifies her thinking about water/flood plains, history/legacy and climate change.
In Class 2 we will focus on mid 20th – 21st century landscape architects for whom story-telling figures prominently in their work: Lawrence Halprin, west-coast practitioner who created active social spaces for movement; Charles Jencks, architectural theorist and writer who spent many summers in Wellfleet; and Anne Whiston Spirn, early proponent of community-based design. Each of these designers was unique in an era dominated by modernism and formalism.
In Class 3 we will look at two memorials: the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park at Roosevelt Island, originally designed by Louis Kahn in 1974 and realized in 2010-12 by Mitchell-Giurgola Architects; and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, by MASS Design Group.
In Class 4 we will look at the Washington DC Tidal Basin, originally conceived in the 1800s and reconceptualized in 2023 as the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab. The Ideas Lab was included in last year’s course; this year we will discuss climate change linked to the theme of narrative.
In class 5, we will conclude by looking at work by notable landscape architects whose work exemplifies regenerative landscape design, Bas Smets of Brussels, Belgium, and currently teaching at Harvard GSD; and Julie Bargmann, Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia and founding principal of D.I.R.T.
Each class will begin with a slide presentation, followed by discussion. There will be some optional reading, but assignments will be mainly video/YouTube lectures by the landscape architects and architects. Maximum enrollment of 20.
Martha Leibowitz Rothman
Wednesday, 2-4PM
Jan. 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19
Zoom
Building upon the OUW winter 2024 course, Landscape Architecture: The Public Realm, Infrastructure and Climate Change, this year’s course, Landscape Architecture: Site and Narrative, will focus on landscape architects/ architects and projects based on “story” or narrative. We will explore work that is embedded in the history of a place and how that history inspires the design. (Please note that the earlier course is not a pre-requisite for this course.)
In Class 1, we will begin with Sara Zewde, landscape architect and assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her work and forthcoming book, Olmsted’s Legacy, Slavery and Landscape Architecture, provide a view of Olmsted through a current lens, building upon last year’s discussion of Frederick Law Olmsted whose 19th century landscape architecture practice was rooted in his social ideas. Zewde Studio’s site design for the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, NY, exemplifies her thinking about water/flood plains, history/legacy and climate change.
In Class 2 we will focus on mid 20th – 21st century landscape architects for whom story-telling figures prominently in their work: Lawrence Halprin, west-coast practitioner who created active social spaces for movement; Charles Jencks, architectural theorist and writer who spent many summers in Wellfleet; and Anne Whiston Spirn, early proponent of community-based design. Each of these designers was unique in an era dominated by modernism and formalism.
In Class 3 we will look at two memorials: the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park at Roosevelt Island, originally designed by Louis Kahn in 1974 and realized in 2010-12 by Mitchell-Giurgola Architects; and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, by MASS Design Group.
In Class 4 we will look at the Washington DC Tidal Basin, originally conceived in the 1800s and reconceptualized in 2023 as the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab. The Ideas Lab was included in last year’s course; this year we will discuss climate change linked to the theme of narrative.
In class 5, we will conclude by looking at work by notable landscape architects whose work exemplifies regenerative landscape design, Bas Smets of Brussels, Belgium, and currently teaching at Harvard GSD; and Julie Bargmann, Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia and founding principal of D.I.R.T.
Each class will begin with a slide presentation, followed by discussion. There will be some optional reading, but assignments will be mainly video/YouTube lectures by the landscape architects and architects. Maximum enrollment of 20.