“The idea is simple: everyone is a planner. Everyone has a relationship to the city, and uses it in certain ways. It’s our job to get people’s ideas to the surface” What is the vision for our city? Taking notes from the Los Angeles artists, James Rojas has found a way to convey abstract planning […]
Unbeknownst to most visitors of New York City, the Queens Museum of Art holds the massive NYC Panorama. The attraction was commissioned by master builder and urban planner Robert Moses for display at the 1964 World’s Fair as a powerful representational tool and as a spectacle. The 1” = 100’ scale of the project […]
There is a wide-ranging difference in perceptions of terrain. Depending on education, experience and field of expertise the terrain can be an inspiring creative outlet. British artist Kane Cali has always used terrain to broaden his approach to art. Using some techniques that are similar to landscape architects and some that are not, he transforms […]
Interesting example of experimentation taking place by Alan Berger and others at MIT and the GSD. The work involves examining different wetland configurations and how they effect the flow of water to maximize the cleansing effectiveness of the vegetation. The forms and experiments are beautiful and intriguing, it is great to see hydraulic experiments taking […]
Through the combination of a sand and plastic substrate (to simulate gravel and sand respectively) and alfalfa sprouts (to simulate deep rooted vegetation) a group of Berkeley researchers have successfully recreated a performative model of a meandering stream. Science Daily. Oct 2009 The ability to simulate natural processes through scaled models ties back into the […]
LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture . Spring 2006, First Year Graduate Studio Faculty: Bradley Cantrell, Assistant Professor At the core of any representation method is the physical relationship between the data and the user. We have to sense the data in some way, sight, touch, sound, to begin to process and interact with […]
The Mississippi Basin Model (MBM), built between 1943-1966, is located in Clinton, MS. The model is situated within a 200 acre site and simulates a large portion of the Mississippi watershed. German POW labor was used in the construction of a portion of the model. The model was created during a paradigm shift in engineering, […]