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For nearly twenty years, landscape architecture in Europe has been undergoing a significant rebirth. As commissions and projects grow in number and diversity, European landscape architects have become more actively engaged in the debates on the evolution of cities, towns, countryside - in short, the domain of territory. European designers continue to resuscitate landscapes shaped and sustained by strong economies but now in decline, while their projects in expanding sectors - such as transportation, tourism, housing, and commercial development - challenge them to maintain an evolutionary approach to landscape without contributing to its mere colonization.
Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design spotlights new directions in landscape architectural practice by featuring developments beyond the traditional garden wall. Implicit here is the belief that landscapes should not - nor could not - be entirely designed, but rather that through design, landscapes are reinvented to renew the notion of the garden. How can the new landscape reclaim the role attributed to the garden by the humanists of the Renaissance? How can it speak to us of the surrounding world, in terms not only of the lost past but of transformations taking place around us? Can contemporary territories be represented in ways that help us envision, understand, and appreciate them?
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The exhibition is organized in two components: A Landscape Abecedary and Selected Regions |
Territories:
Contemporary European Landscape Design was conceived, organized and
curated by Joseph Disponzio, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture,
Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Sébastian Marot, editor of Le
Visiteur, Paris. It opened at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on 19
April 2001 and ran through 24 May. A book containing the contents and substance
of the exhibition is in progress, and expected for publication in Fall 2002.
Requests for the exhibition should be addressed to Kim Shkapich, Director
of Exhibitions, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Telephone: 617 - 496-8812.
E - mail: shkapich@gsd.harvard.edu
Territories:
Contemporary European Landscape Design was funded in part by a generous
grant from the Government of France, Étant donnés: French-American
Fund for Contemporary Art and the Government of Switzerland, Swiss House and
Présence Suisse.
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PRS,
Presence Switzerland
www.switzerland.com |
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| Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design © The Harvard Graduate School of Design, Trustees of Harvard University |