M. Paul Friedberg Biography: Becoming a Landscape Architect [7 of 7]
Like several events in Friedberg #39;s life, becoming a landscape architect was a response to circumstances. Interviewed by Charles A. Birnbaum, October 2006. Fo...
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Description of the Head of the Harbor Project
Presented by Earl Goven, Landscape Architect, Blades Goven, Fairfield, Conn.
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An article in The Wall Street Journal listingThe Best Architecture of 2014includes UBs Solar Strand, calling the 3,200-panel, ground-mounted photovoltaic array a small but telling model of landscape architecture at its most forward-thinking.
Envisioning energy as part of the cultural and built landscape, the Solar Strandstands at the main entrance to UB's North Campus and provides a striking but practical campus gateway. The 750-kilowatt array generates enough energy to power hundreds of student apartments while offsetting the emission of nearly 400 tons of greenhouse gases annually.
At a time when fields of PV panels and wind turbine farms are a reality, planted in vast undifferentiated arrays that assault the eye, not to mention birds and other animals, Solar Strand offers a thoughtful alternative, writes Julie V. Iovine, the Journals architecture critic.
The array was designed by the celebrated landscape architect, artist and educatorWalter Hood, who was selected through an international design competition sponsored by UB.
The design competition, which attracted an initial field of 23 artists and landscape architects from around the world, called for a solar array that would be integrated into the campus landscape, accessible to students and the community, and representative of a new design vocabulary for solar installations around the world.
The project got its start in 2009 when the New York Power Authority approached UB with an interest in funding the construction of a conventional, ground-mounted photovoltaic array across several acres at the North Campus entrance. University leadership took the project to the next level, with NYPAs support, proposing to elevate design standards for the project through an international design competition.
Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, UBs campus architect and chair of the selection committee for the competition, reflected on the design process in a recent article inDomus, an international architectural publication:
To transform a simple utility field into a land art installation, we mounted an international design competition that asked artists to consider solar panels as their medium and our campus gateway as their canvas. We were presenting the opportunity to make art from something that tended to be somewhat pedestrian, and that was increasingly subject to not-in-my-backyard obstruction. I think for some artists thats a very interesting challenge.
Hoods winning vision was to build the installation into the campus landscape. The 15-acre site features regenerating meadows, a meandering creek and vernal pools. Set in the background are the universitys chilled water plant and generator system.
The Solar Strands design logic is based on the strand concept: a linear landscape formation and DNA fingerprint. Groups of photovoltaic panels are mounted at staggering heights onto supports that stretch in three rows. Walkways run between the rows of panels, connecting the array with local roads, UBs Center for Tomorrow and naturally regenerated meadows and wetland areas that the public can enjoy.
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Orlando Comas, Landscape Architect
2014 Award of Honor Video shown during the awards ceremony at the American Society of Landscape Architects Convention.
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Lawrence Halprin Biography: Becoming a Landscape Architect [3 of 10]
Learn what experience while visiting Taliesin East proved life changing. Interviewed by Charles A. Birnbaum, March 2008. For more information about Lawrence ...
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Aerodynamic: Dylan Parker (left) with James Norton. Photo: Steven Siewert
Marketing specialist Dylan Parker, 27 , and landscape architect James Norton, 29, met at a paper plane competition in 2008. It was the start of a journey that inspired the film Paper Planes.
James Norton: We have both been fascinated with paper planes since we were kids. There is nothing like that feeling of seeing it get caught on an updraft and soar above your eyes. A passion for paper planes are hereditary. You take that family design down with you, the one that Dad showed you. The most common is the classic, thin-tipped, wide-wing version.
I met Dylan in 2008 at a paper plane competition at the University of Canberra, where we were both studying. He had a suitcase full of paper plane shapes of every variety. I had never been to a proper contest before, but there was Dylan with a suitcase, with [padded sections] moulded to the shape of his planes.
There were the flat ones that spend the most time in the air and the short bullet-shaped ones that fly like javelins. The designs were incredible. I just looked at him and the planes and I thought, "That guy is just like me, he likes planes just as much as I do and he is totally willing to cop all the shit that comes with it." It was love at first flight.
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While we were throwing at the university everyone was looking at us like we were freaks in a "Why are you taking this so seriously?" kind of way.
We had only just got to know each other when Dylan got sick. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour and had to go back to Newcastle to be with his mum [former NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker] and dad.
He was in hospital for weeks with a golf ball-sized brain tumour they thought might be cancerous.
We still weren't that close as we had only really just met, but we kept in touch through Facebook. I thought it was best to give him some space with his family.
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Q I inherited a picture from a great-aunt, but I don't remember ever seeing it in her home. It's a mountain landscape with trees. It looks like a name is scratched into the lower right hand corner, as well as "48." It measures 24 by 30 inches, with its gold frame. Any help you can give me identifying and appraising this work would be appreciated.
A After living for 20-plus years in California, I'm finally beginning to recognize and identify certain landscape features in art. Mountain ranges, representations of trees and plants, and patterns of sunlight and shadow all help identify the work of California's en plein-air artists.
The French words en plein-air (literally "in open air") signify a work painted directly from nature and capturing an artist's immediate impression of a scene, rather than one done in a studio and based on studies. The development of the plein-air style coincided with mid-19th-century advances in photographic and moving-picture technology, which helped popularize the idea of capturing a scene at a particular moment.
One of California's most prolific plein-air artists was John Augustus Dominique. It is his graffito signature and date on the lower right of your painting.
After his birth in Sweden in 1893, his family moved to Portland, Oregon, when Dominique was still young. His father trained as a florist and worked as a landscape architect.
Dominique himself first was employed as a typesetter and cartoonist in Oregon, where he also took art lessons. In 1914, he moved to California to study at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) and the San Francisco Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute). At the 1915 Panama- Pacific International Exposition he saw works by Claude Monet and Edvard Munch. He continued to study art, and his biography indicates that most of his teachers were impressionists.
After military service in Maryland, Dominique moved to Santa Barbara, where his father had designed the gardens for a large estate. He lived and painted on Montecito's Ward Estate for nearly a decade and developed a love for the mountains near Ojai and surrounding areas, now recognized as a frequent subject of his paintings.
Your painting depicts one of the highest peaks in the Topatopa Mountains, near Dominique's Santa Barbara home. It illustrates an oak-tree landscape with Cobblestone Mountain in the distance. To judge from the foliage on the trees and the proliferation of red poppies, your work was most likely done in the spring or summer of 1948.
Dominique continued working, exhibiting and teaching art until his death, in 1994. Interestingly, an infection damaged his sight in 1975, and works painted after that date are done in an abstract style he had abandoned decades earlier.
This 1948 oil on canvas is a classic example of Dominique's work. Over the decades he was living in Santa Barbara, he likely painted hundreds of views of these mountains and canyons, capturing the light of the moment in each one.
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