Charles Jencks: architectural historian, landscape architect, and co-founder of Maggie’s Centres

BMJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. l6592
Author(s):  
Rebecca Wallersteiner
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Architect ◽  
Charles Jencks

‘Excavating’ Pruitt-Igoe using space syntax

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Mark David Major
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Charles Jencks

Pruitt-Igoe, in St Louis, Missouri, United States, was one of the most notorious social housing projects of the twentieth century. Charles Jencks argued opening his book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, ‘Modern Architecture died in St Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3.32 pm (or thereabouts) when the infamous Pruitt-Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grâce by dynamite.’ However, the magazine Architectural Forum had heralded the project as ‘the best high apartment’ of the year in 1951. Indeed, one of its first residents in 1957 described Pruitt-Igoe as ‘like an oasis in a desert, all of this newness’. But a later resident derided the housing project as ‘Hell on Earth’ in 1967. Only eighteen years after opening, the St Louis Public Housing Authority (PHA) began demolishing Pruitt-Igoe in 1972 [1]. It remains commonly cited for the failures of modernist design and planning.

“La Belle Liégeoise”, the new footbridge in Liège

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Gens ◽  
Ludivine Comeliau
Keyword(s):  
Railway Station ◽  
Supporting Structure ◽  
Landscape Architect ◽  
Total Length ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Transport Modes

<p>The newest footbridge in Liège, known as "La Belle Liégeoise", was opened on 2nd May 2016. Located upstream of the landscape window created by Guillemins esplanade, this bridge provides a connection for soft transport modes from the railway station across the Meuse to La Boverie park, maintaining clearance for navigation.</p><p>The main span over the Meuse is 163 metres for a total length of 294 metres. The 5.5 metre wide decking is positioned laterally to the supporting structure.</p><p>Bureau Greisch, in association with the landscape architect Corajoud, was responsible for the complete design mission for the bridge.</p><p>The aim of this article is to detail the whole process of the conception of the bridge, from first sketches to erection control.</p>

The Application of Industrial Waste in Landscaping

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 740-746
Author(s):  
Yi Jie Liu ◽  
Shu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Project Cost ◽  
Landscape Architect ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Modern Landscape

This thesis put the main emphasis on how to utilize the solid waste, that is the offscum, to apply into landscaping after reprocessing. This thesis starts form discussing the building materials in landscaping and the specialness of construction, then tries to analyze the structure of every element in landscape construction, tries to select the industrial waste that can be applied into landscape construction from numerous industrial waste recycling products, and give a brief introduction of its mechanism and method. Besides, this thesis calls on modern landscape architect to actively utilize the waste to construct landscape, for not only lower project cost, but also more environment protection. Keywords: industrial waste; landscape; utilize, environment

Joanna C. Diman (1901–91):

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-348
Author(s):  
Nicholas Adams
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
York City Department ◽  
Landscape Architect

Joanna C. Diman (1901–91): A “Cantankerous” Landscape Architect at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill presents a biographical overview of Diman's career as a landscape architect. Using hitherto unpublished sources, Nicholas Adams traces Diman's progress from her training at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women (from which she graduated in 1923) through her early work for individual practitioners. For a decade beginning in 1934, she worked for the New York City Department of Parks. In 1944, she joined the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where she worked until her retirement in 1967. Archival sources at SOM reveal that she was involved to differing degrees in nearly all projects that passed through the firm's New York office, from the relatively small garden at Lever House to the great works of “pastoral capitalism,” such as that at Connecticut General in Bloomfield, Connecticut (1957). Adams raises questions of stylistic individuality and places them alongside the larger issue of what influence an in-house landscape department had on design at SOM during these years.

scholarly journals HOUSEHOLD GARDENING AS PREFERENCE ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY RESILIENCE DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Irina Mildawani ◽  
Arief Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Ornamental Plants ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
Landscape Architect ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
Physical Interactions ◽  
Professional Assistance ◽  
At Home

The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 affected countries across the world and sudden disruptions to everyday life and impact well-being. The implementation of exceptional procedures of social distancing includes working places and schools’ closures urged people to stay at home to reduce the number of close physical interactions and decrease the spreading of pandemic. With the long hours of family members staying at home, people prefer to do some activities at home. Doing gardening is seen as one of the preferences of urban inhabitants. However, few studies have measured the preference of urban gardening, particularly during household gardening in Jabodetabek, Indonesia. This paper examines people preferences on household gardening during the pandemic of Covid-19, comparing it with their activities before and predict it with possibility after the pandemic. We explore how type of gardening varies between vegetable or ornamental plants, community or household garden type, and the persons involved during gardening. Using google form, 148 respondents in Jabodetabek were answering between July-Dec 2020. Our study examines the emotional well-being (EWB) using Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA), applying codes and categories. Gardening as one of the favorable activities considered to generate happy time with family and they would like to continue the activities after the pandemic. However, landscape architect was not yet chosen as the gardener when they need professional assistance.  This might rise a future research about the role of landscape architect in gardening movement in urban community gardening

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