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The terms “modern” and “minimal”
are casually applied to public landscapes and gardens today without
any deep understanding of what makes them Modern.
If the first wave of Modernism in landscape architecture began
in 1929 with Fletcher Steele’s revolutionary application of
a bent axis at the Camden Amphitheatre in Maine and quietly ended
on the Bicentennial (July 4, 1976) with the ribbon-cutting of such
projects as Lawrence Halprin’s Freeway Park in Seattle and
Heritage Park in Fort Worth; Hideo Sasaki’s Waterfront Park
in Boston; Robert Zion’s Waterfront Park in Cincinnati; and
SOM’s design for Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C.,
what happened in Landscape Architecture after that? Unlike architecture,
which experienced a two-decade romance with Post Modernism, the
same did not occur in the landscape architecture profession.
This conference will explore this question by showcasing the ideas
and works of leading landscape architecture and garden design professionals
to see what makes their work modern and how it is influenced by
the earlier movement.
Events
The conference will open Thursday evening, November 13, with a
dinner and keynote address. The conference sessions will be held
on Friday, November 14 at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The
day will conclude with a reception at the Design Within Reach studio
on East Ohio Street. Tours will be held on Saturday, November 15
and will spotlight the work of Dan Kiley, Kathryn Gustafson, Michael
van Valkenburgh, and Peter Lindsay Schaudt among others.
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