Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Syracusa, Italy
I am a senior in the Landscape Architecture department at the State University of New York - Environmental Science and Forestry interested in landscape + urbanism.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Off campus: Barcelona, Berlin, Syracusa?
My studio has been presented 3 of our 10 off campus locations for next year. I will post more on each choice after I do more research. My initial impressions are that Berlin and Barcelona will be near the top of my lists both seem like lively dense cities (definitely the type of city I am looking for). I am excited to see where I might end up...
Monday, October 10, 2011
BIG lecture
Last week I managed to fit into the packed Slocum auditorium at SU to see Bjarke Ingels present a lecture titled Hedonistic Sustainability. Bjarke Ingels is the founder of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) based out of Copenhagen, Denmark.
It was a very refreshing and interesting presentation. I couldn't help but be absolutely amazed at the uniqueness and clearness of his work. Each project he presented had a clear large concept and was presented in such a way that you were convinced that it was the only possible solution to the issue at hand. Bjarke has a unique ability to bring humor to both his work and presentation; definitely something I have not seen from many of the other lectures at SU or ESF.
There were far too many projects presented for me to comment on any in particular, but they all were connected by there ability to begin to connect complex systems together, in a way forming an architectural ecosystem. I hope to be able to have my off campus study (more to come on this later) be related to this kind of large scale thinking.
I highly encourage anyone interested in learning more about BIG's work to explore their website. It has a great amount of images for each project. I particularly like how the website is organized the icons are a great representation of Bjarke's style. Also BIG has several books published on their work. I plan on ordering their monograph Yes is More, later this week.
Tomorrow, Walter Hood is presenting at SU. I hope to make over to see his presentation. It is great and rather fascinating to see that SU architecture has had a long list of landscape architects present in the past year.
It was a very refreshing and interesting presentation. I couldn't help but be absolutely amazed at the uniqueness and clearness of his work. Each project he presented had a clear large concept and was presented in such a way that you were convinced that it was the only possible solution to the issue at hand. Bjarke has a unique ability to bring humor to both his work and presentation; definitely something I have not seen from many of the other lectures at SU or ESF.
There were far too many projects presented for me to comment on any in particular, but they all were connected by there ability to begin to connect complex systems together, in a way forming an architectural ecosystem. I hope to be able to have my off campus study (more to come on this later) be related to this kind of large scale thinking.
Loop City
Tomorrow, Walter Hood is presenting at SU. I hope to make over to see his presentation. It is great and rather fascinating to see that SU architecture has had a long list of landscape architects present in the past year.
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