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Event & Conference Details
Second Wave of Modernism II Conference and Tours
November 18-19, 2011 |
On Friday, November 18, 2011, a daylong conference titled the “Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation” will be held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The conference is organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation, conference curators Jane Amidon and Charles Birnbaum, in partnership with MoMA, and with support from NYASLA, and sponsors Charles Luck and Landscape Forms. Three separately-ticketed tours of New York City cultural landscapes will be offered on Saturday, November 19, in conjunction with the conference. The tours will be led by designers and experts on the sites, including the 9/11 Memorial, The High Line, and a boat tour of the East River Waterfront with stops at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Queens West II/Gantry State Park, and historic Erie Basin.
The conference will examine a significant evolution of professional practice: Landscape architects and designers today are approaching modernist sites with new motivations, attempting to balance the complex values of natural and cultural systems. This reflects an accelerating attitudinal shift: a departure from the modernist’s tabula rasa exemplified at varying scales by icons such as Philip Johnson’s Beck House in Dallas and the Lincoln Center Campus in New York. (This conference is a follow-up to a similarly themed, sold-out event held in Chicago in 2008.)
To investigate this significant evolution of professional practice, the conference curators have assembled speakers to address three thematic groups that will collectively explore landscape transformations at the residential, urban renewal, and metropolitan scales. Speakers include Julie Bargmann (D.I.R.T. Studio); James Corner, ASLA (James Corner Field Operations); Lisa Gimmy, ASLA (Lisa Gimmy Landscape Architecture); Kathryn Gustafson, ASLA (Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Ltd); Gary R. Hilderbrand, FASLA (Reed Hilderbrand); Raymond Jungles, FASLA (Raymond Jungles, Inc.); Christopher LaGuardia, ASLA (LaGuardia Design); Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA (University of Virginia School of Architecture); Charles Renfro (Diller Scofidio + Renfro); and Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA (Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.).
The approach to complexity in landscape architecture is evolving with significant implications for the treatment of modernist sites. In the first era of modernism in landscape architecture, from 1928 to the Bicentennial, complexity was defined in spatial and structural terms, substituting formal expression, functionalism, and total solutions for explicit engagement with dynamic natural and cultural systems. Today, in the era of sustainability, as we return to those sites as well as create new landscapes, complex performances govern design from conception through development and management.
At the residential scale, the modernist-envisioned landscape used modular surfaces, elements, and volumes interlocking with, extending, or encompassing interior conditions. Evidence of evolving attitudes relative to landscape’s identity and, therefore, its responsibility for taking on complex design will be illuminated in three noteworthy examples of renewal at iconic modernist homes—the Perlbinder “Record House,” Long Island (Norman Jaffee, 1970s); Kun 2, Los Angeles (Richard Neutra, 1950); and the Beck House near Dallas (Phillip Johnson, 1964).
Beyond residential work, the subject of the first panel, the following two panels will explore modernist insertions at a metropolitan and urban scale, the latter focusing on earlier urban renewal efforts. The metropolitan examples will include Corner’s work to transform New York City’s High Line (2009, 2011); Gustafson’s recent master plan for Nashville’s Centennial Park and 2004 insertion of the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in London’s Hyde Park; Bargman’s Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard; Meyer’s current work with Michael Van Valkenburgh at the Jefferson Expansion Grounds in St. Louis; Diller, Scofidio and Renfro’s renewal of the Lincoln Center campus in New York City (2010); and, finally, Jungles’s new design for the 1100 block of Lincoln Road in Miami will reexamine earlier renewal projects.
LA CES continuing education credits (CEUs) will be available for this event. |
Website:
www.tclf.org/secondwave |
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The Museum of Modern Art |
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019 |
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Suzanne Garza |
| Email:
suzanne@tclf.org |
| Phone:
202.483.0553 |
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