Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts
The importance of creating aesthetic objects, environments or experiences that can be shared with others
Art is the expression or application of human creativity to evoke emotions and give structure and meaning to our world.
Landscape architecture is the shaping of outdoor and public spaces striving to achieve aesthetic, environmental and socio-behavioural balance.
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Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Roberto Burle Marx: One of the leading landscape architects of 20th century.
His passion for art, in all forms, strengthened his ability to design landscape and transform them into landmarks.
LAND ART:
A call for change by young people at the early 70s, showing a growing interest in ecology, the dangers of pollution and consumerism.
Can be considered as a circumstantial activity between nature and man.
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INSTALLATION ART & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE:
Three-dimensional works of art which are site specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. They can be temporary or permanent, visual or participatory. Their purpose is to make space distinct and create a point of reference.
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Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
“…What that piece does is give you a point of reference in relationship to a line and your upstanding relationship to a vertical plane, and infinity … That’s actually a place out there now, and there certainly wasn’t one before. We did that simply by putting up four plates.” –Richard Serra
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
LANDSCAPEARCHITECTURE & SYMBOLISM:
Evoking emotions, spreading knowledge, creating landmarks. Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
SOUNDSCAPES:
Landscape architecture is closely related to sound. The shaping of land has far-reaching consequences for the sonic environment. The creating of soundscapes aims to emphasize the experiential characteristics of the sonic environment and to discuss the role of sound in landscape architecture.
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Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & SCENOGRAPHY:
Where landscape itself is the canvas for artists and landscape architects to promote its site-specific quality and evoke emotions.
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & AV TECHNOLOGY:
The projection of data-based facts and concepts in order to transform spaces into landmarks and promote communication, participation and knowledge to previous indifferent or derelict urban and rural areas. Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
Contemporary Landscape Architecture & The Arts | Xenia Mastoraki | RAMBOLL | Copenhagen |2019
It is quite common of people to think about landscape and cityscape in a rather limited way.
But did you know that Landscape Architecture is a form of Activism?
Landscape Architects, now, maybe more than ever, not only do have countless options in order to use all possible media, in order to transform, educate and bring people together, but they do have the ethical duty to make an impact on our visual and social environment.
Credits:
Roberto BurleMarx, Copacabana Promenade, Rio de Janeiro, 1970s, Roberto Burle Marx: The Artist of Landscape Desig, https://www. dailyartmagazine.com/roberto-burle-marx/, The modernist parks and pavements of Copacabana designed by Roberto Burle Marx, https://www. creativeboom.com/inspiration/the-modernist-parks-and-pavements-of-copacabana-designed-by-roberto-burle-marx/
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, the GreatSalt Lake, Utah, 1970, SPIRAL JETTY by Robert Smithson, https://www.thegreensideofpink.com/design-en/ art/2021/spiral-jetty-by-robert-smithson/?lang=en
East-West / West-East, Richard Serra, Qataridesert, 1998, Richard Serra’s East-West/West-East Rises in the Qatari Desert, https://www.archdaily. com/626191/richard-serra-s-east-west-west-east-rises-in-the-qatari-desert, East-West/West-East by Richard Serra, http://www.thephotophore.com/ richard-serra-qatar/
The Floating Piers, Christo, Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014-16, The Floating Piers Opens on Lake Iseo Allowing Visitors to “Walk on Water”, https://www. archdaily.com/789793/the-floating-piers-opens-on-lake-iseo-italy-christo, christo’s floating piers open to the public in lake iseo, italy, https://www. designboom.com/art/floating-piers-christo-and-jeanne-claude-lake-iseo-italy-06-18-2016/
Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Fountain, Gustafson Porter + Bowman, London, 2004, Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain / Gustafson Porter + Bowman, https://www.archdaily.com/803509/diana-princess-of-wales-memorial-fountain-gustafson-porter-plus-bowman
Nelson Mandela Memorial, Marco Cianfanelli, Howick, 2012, Nelson Mandela, https://www.ignant.com/2017/02/24/nelson-mandela-memorial-bymarco-cianfanelli/
Sea Organs, Nikola Bašič, Zadar / Croatia, 2008, Incredible ‘Sea Organ’ uses ocean waves to make beautiful music, https://inhabitat.com/incrediblesea-organ-uses-ocean-waves-to-make-beautiful-music/
Simon Porte Jacquemus, Spring/Summer 2020 Paris Fashion Week, France, 2019, Jacquemus to Stage Physical Fashion Show, https://wwd.com/ fashion-news/fashion-scoops/jacquemus-to-stage-physical-fashion-show-near-paris-1203670169/
ARTIST JIM SANBORN IS THE MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD, https://archive.flaunt.com/content/art/meet-the-mostinteresting-man-in-the-world Contemporary
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