lsa 422 . senior design studio | exploring the role of landscape as museum
The landscapes that are ultimately created are essentially new to the earth. Cities, for example, are often built of materials that are thermally and hydrologically extreme to the land, and in structural forms that are geomorphically atypical in most landscapes. It is a landscape distinctly different from the landscapes it displaced and, in many respects, decidedly inferior as a human habitat. The modern metropolitan environment that results tends to be less healthy, less safe, and emotionally secure than most people desire. Moreover, the very existence of such environments poses a serious uncertainty to future generations owing to the high cost of maintaining both the environment and the quality of human life within them. In addition, their relationship with the natural environment of water, air, soil, and ecological systems is a lopsided one that does not adequately fit our notion of a sustainable balance between an organism and its habitat. Herein lies much of the basis for land use planning, landscape design, and urban and regional planning (William Marsh, Landscape Planning Environmental Applications, page 8).
INTRODUCTION
The present condition and trajectory of our built environment, our health and that of our ecosystems affords the study of a myriad of complex problems across a diversity of scales. This provides landscape architects the forum to create innovative solutions that holistically engage and balance the unique economic, environmental, socio-cultural, and aesthetic conditions of places/sites. The following projects explore these conditions across three landscape typologies: the rural, suburban and urban. The project solutions represented in this website depict the work of 26 students as they explore landscape architecture.
Museums seek to educate, preserve and spark new dialog - so shall landscapes... to be continued soon
The present condition and trajectory of our built environment, our health and that of our ecosystems affords the study of a myriad of complex problems across a diversity of scales. This provides landscape architects the forum to create innovative solutions that holistically engage and balance the unique economic, environmental, socio-cultural, and aesthetic conditions of places/sites. The following projects explore these conditions across three landscape typologies: the rural, suburban and urban. The project solutions represented in this website depict the work of 26 students as they explore landscape architecture.
Museums seek to educate, preserve and spark new dialog - so shall landscapes... to be continued soon
FALL 2013 - SCHEDULE - subject to minor changes
Exhibit: Rural Monday, August 26 – Wednesday, September 11
o Site visit to Cazenovia . Wednesday, August 28 (one 9 passenger van and three 7 passenger van)
o Internal Review . Friday, September 6
o Final/external presentation . Wednesday, September 11
UD: Canandaigua
o Site visit to Canandaigua, Project Introduction by Client . Friday, August 30 (one 9 passenger van and three 7 passenger van)
Boston Field Trip Th. Sept. 12 – Sat. Sept. 14
o leave to Boston right after lunch (four 7 passenger vans)
Exhibit: Suburban Monday, September 16-Monday, September 23
o Site visit to Cicero . Monday, September 16 (one 9 passenger van and three 7 passenger van)
o Internal review . Friday, September 20
o Final/external presentation . Monday, September 23
UD: Canandaigua
o Sept. 25-30 part one
o Review . Monday, September 30
Exhibit: Urban Wednesday, October 2 – Monday, October 14
o Site visit public transportation . Wednesday, October 2
o Internal Review . Wednesday, October 9
o final/external presentation . Monday, October 14o revise Exhibit:Urban . Wednesday, October 16
UD: Canandaigua Oct 18 – Oct. 28 part two
o Tentative 2nd site visit to Canandaigua Friday, October 25
o Review . Monday, October 28
Exhibits: Rural, Suburban, Urban work October 30 – Nov. 8
o Exhibit held on Friday November 8, 2013 at 6:00 pm @ Sparks Gallery (add address here) Silent Review
UD: Canandaigua Nov. 11 – December 11 part three
o Review . Wednesday, November 13
o Review . Friday, November 22
o Review . Friday, December 6
o FINAL STUDIO REVIEW . Wednesday, December 11@ the Gateway Building from 10 am - 1:30 pm
ASLA Convention November 15-18
Thanksgiving Break November 23-December 1
Note: flexibility is built into the schedule in case a shift is necessary
Exhibit: Rural Monday, August 26 – Wednesday, September 11
o Site visit to Cazenovia . Wednesday, August 28 (one 9 passenger van and three 7 passenger van)
o Internal Review . Friday, September 6
o Final/external presentation . Wednesday, September 11
UD: Canandaigua
o Site visit to Canandaigua, Project Introduction by Client . Friday, August 30 (one 9 passenger van and three 7 passenger van)
Boston Field Trip Th. Sept. 12 – Sat. Sept. 14
o leave to Boston right after lunch (four 7 passenger vans)
Exhibit: Suburban Monday, September 16-Monday, September 23
o Site visit to Cicero . Monday, September 16 (one 9 passenger van and three 7 passenger van)
o Internal review . Friday, September 20
o Final/external presentation . Monday, September 23
UD: Canandaigua
o Sept. 25-30 part one
o Review . Monday, September 30
Exhibit: Urban Wednesday, October 2 – Monday, October 14
o Site visit public transportation . Wednesday, October 2
o Internal Review . Wednesday, October 9
o final/external presentation . Monday, October 14o revise Exhibit:Urban . Wednesday, October 16
UD: Canandaigua Oct 18 – Oct. 28 part two
o Tentative 2nd site visit to Canandaigua Friday, October 25
o Review . Monday, October 28
Exhibits: Rural, Suburban, Urban work October 30 – Nov. 8
o Exhibit held on Friday November 8, 2013 at 6:00 pm @ Sparks Gallery (add address here) Silent Review
UD: Canandaigua Nov. 11 – December 11 part three
o Review . Wednesday, November 13
o Review . Friday, November 22
o Review . Friday, December 6
o FINAL STUDIO REVIEW . Wednesday, December 11@ the Gateway Building from 10 am - 1:30 pm
ASLA Convention November 15-18
Thanksgiving Break November 23-December 1
Note: flexibility is built into the schedule in case a shift is necessary
BOSTON FIELD TRIP ITINERARY
> Thursday, September 12
12:30 (4 vans) depart SUNY ESF bottom of steps by physical plant (expected travel duration 5.5 hours) including one or two (2) stops
6:00 - 6:30 Check in at hotel and refresh (Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Boston 250 Monsignor O'Brien Highway Cambridge, Massachusetts 02141)
6:35 Depart hotel to Chinatown Park by CRJA
Dinner on your own
7:30 dinner or free time to walk around Chinatown we can eat at King-Fung-Garden-Boston (good reviews $$) or on your own at other nearby restaurants (please see suggestions at the Urban Spoon - http://www.urbanspoon.com)
9:00 Meet back at Chinatown Park to return to hotel in the vans. Otherwise take public transit (it will be your responsibility to find your way back to the hotel)
> Friday, September 13
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast at Hotel
8:30 am Depart Hotel for Children’s Museum Grounds by MVVA
Playground by Gary Hildebrand's office
Moakley Courthouse and Fan Pier
30 minute lunch at Quincy Market
The New England Holocaust Memorial
Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Boston's ribbon of contemporary parks
2:00 depart for the GSD - 48 Quincy
2:30 pm meet and greet with Charles Waldheim - John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture
3:30 GSD Tour with John Aslanian - Assistant Director for Student Life and Recruitment (Harvard University Graduate School of Design48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) cell - (508) 742-5898 | the current exhibit at the GSD lobby is on the Green Prize for Urban Design awarded to Medellin, Colombia and Porto, Portugal
4:00 pm Lecture with Prof. Ann Forsyth (annforsyth.net) Gund room 121 - Program Director, Master in Urban Planning Department of Urban Planning and Design Harvard GSD
6:00 pm Foreman Conference (Free) Ecology colloquium being presented by Richard Forman: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/ecology-land-city.html
After conference - dinner on you own
> Saturday, September 14
8:30 - 9:30 am breakfast
9:30 am Depart for tour with Carol Johnson & Associates (CRJA) principal Cathy Offenberg & Jeff Bittenbender
Meet at the corner of Causeway Street and Beverly Way. Portal Park is there and provides an interesting overlook on the Zakim Bridge. You can get coffee at the Equal Exchange Café, across Beverly Way (same side of the street as the park – north side) TOUR BEGINS AT 10 am SHARP - Walking tour of the North Bank Bridge Park - a series of public spaces carved out under the Zakim bridge in order to create a linkage from Cambridge to Charlestown. Submitted for ASLA awards.
Depart for Syracuse at 11 am or noon
Arrive Syracuse 5:30 - 6:30 pm TENTATIVE
*********In case of emergency please call Isabel at any time: 303.525.8563
> Thursday, September 12
12:30 (4 vans) depart SUNY ESF bottom of steps by physical plant (expected travel duration 5.5 hours) including one or two (2) stops
6:00 - 6:30 Check in at hotel and refresh (Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Boston 250 Monsignor O'Brien Highway Cambridge, Massachusetts 02141)
6:35 Depart hotel to Chinatown Park by CRJA
Dinner on your own
7:30 dinner or free time to walk around Chinatown we can eat at King-Fung-Garden-Boston (good reviews $$) or on your own at other nearby restaurants (please see suggestions at the Urban Spoon - http://www.urbanspoon.com)
9:00 Meet back at Chinatown Park to return to hotel in the vans. Otherwise take public transit (it will be your responsibility to find your way back to the hotel)
> Friday, September 13
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast at Hotel
8:30 am Depart Hotel for Children’s Museum Grounds by MVVA
Playground by Gary Hildebrand's office
Moakley Courthouse and Fan Pier
30 minute lunch at Quincy Market
The New England Holocaust Memorial
Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Boston's ribbon of contemporary parks
2:00 depart for the GSD - 48 Quincy
2:30 pm meet and greet with Charles Waldheim - John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture
3:30 GSD Tour with John Aslanian - Assistant Director for Student Life and Recruitment (Harvard University Graduate School of Design48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) cell - (508) 742-5898 | the current exhibit at the GSD lobby is on the Green Prize for Urban Design awarded to Medellin, Colombia and Porto, Portugal
4:00 pm Lecture with Prof. Ann Forsyth (annforsyth.net) Gund room 121 - Program Director, Master in Urban Planning Department of Urban Planning and Design Harvard GSD
6:00 pm Foreman Conference (Free) Ecology colloquium being presented by Richard Forman: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/ecology-land-city.html
After conference - dinner on you own
> Saturday, September 14
8:30 - 9:30 am breakfast
9:30 am Depart for tour with Carol Johnson & Associates (CRJA) principal Cathy Offenberg & Jeff Bittenbender
Meet at the corner of Causeway Street and Beverly Way. Portal Park is there and provides an interesting overlook on the Zakim Bridge. You can get coffee at the Equal Exchange Café, across Beverly Way (same side of the street as the park – north side) TOUR BEGINS AT 10 am SHARP - Walking tour of the North Bank Bridge Park - a series of public spaces carved out under the Zakim bridge in order to create a linkage from Cambridge to Charlestown. Submitted for ASLA awards.
Depart for Syracuse at 11 am or noon
Arrive Syracuse 5:30 - 6:30 pm TENTATIVE
*********In case of emergency please call Isabel at any time: 303.525.8563