LAR587 - Quiz 1: IMPORTANT FACTS

• Hydrologic Engineering

• French Style

• Directed Urban Growth

• Precedent for Central Park

• Roads, theatre, gardens, zoos

• First Public Park Act

• Two Layers of central park

• Start Park Movement/Aesthetic USA

• Established Profession

• Put New York on the Map

• Brown Field

• Poor Area Stimulate Public Growth

• Created Fake Nature

• Visual Monuments

• Controlled Circulation

• Romantic Aesthetic

• Moved people around things

• Site lines

• Compress and Release Circulation

• 3rd Park Act

• Network of 5 Parks

• Oldest Greenway of that time

• Working Landscape

• sanitation, recreation, and mobility and flood control

• classical, traditional and picturesque

• blend Victorian and romantic traditions

• Planted first herbaceous border

• Regional native and exotic materials

• Tester, legacy of colorist, created plant beds as tapestries

• Prairie style design

• Created metaphoric water features

• Council circle, a public circle to gather

• Arts and Crafts movement

• Series of Garden Rooms

• Learning through gardening not through education

• Plants mixed borders

• Asymmetrical design

• Preserve what natural world there was

• restricted edges, for viewing, ponds, walk ways

• Teach conservation

• Help environmental and conservation laws

• Cubist Art

• First Advent garden

• Garden of water and light

• Abstraction of line shapes and colors

• collection of owners desires

• Bold and theatrical

• Blue Steps not circulation

• For viewing

• Monocultures, Oak Trees, reminds of pass

• Storm water management

• Intended to be a forest clearing

• Underground parking

• Completely artificial

• Mush Land, pumped water out

• Functional Parkspace

• Netherlands release Programs

• Function Drives Park Landscape

• italian, english and french design

• Used native species to landscape

• Rare mixture of formalities

• formal, whimsical, and open

• Organic aesthetic, very whimsical

• view garden not occupied

• 4 main gardens

• Grid Checker Pattern Influence Modern Movement

• simple modernism

• appears to blend in

• natural acoustics

• Replicating geological patterns of rocks

• Expressing the hydrological infrastructure

• Spanish design

• Linear public walkways

• Tree edge along water

• Focused on horizontality more towards japanese tradition

• Unatural design to emphasize how the event was unatural

• Western Ideas of Modernism

• Include exhibition halls long axis ends at A-bomb

• eastern and western tradition

• Brought people together

• Symbol of peace, peace stone

• Blending of two cultures

• Meander Through

• Split Plane

• Putting texture or color blocks into the landscape

• South American lens on modernism

• International style with his planting instead of being embed in the movement

• Planting related to colonialism

• break traditional and classical forms

• Strong formal axis that crisscrosses the site

• The idea that this axis stimulates the growth of the city

• Monumental Infrastructure the idea of scaling the ideas of modernism to a brand new city

• A stage for the living

• Icon for California lifestyle

• Integrate existing vegetation

• Kidney Shaped pool

• Maintenance ends/dissolves

• Claiming yard space

• Hardedges to divide the landscape into series of outdoor rooms

• long alleys

• Intention miss alignments

• Architecture and Landscape compliment each other

• First modern garden on top of a parking garage

• Plaza as a platform

• Became something to view from surround buildings

• Large drinking fountains

• clean edges nestled into landscape

• High flat blank walls framing views

• light, color, space

• Rebelled against educational method

• Use metal within design to advertise

• Sparks revolution in Landscape Modernism

• Both formal and informal are needed straight and curve