:: Parc de la Villette Entry - OMA - image via OMA
For instance, again from Wikipedia (i know not the most definitive source - but I'm greasing the skids here) lists four 'projects' in the listing for Landscape Urbanism.
- Fresh Kills Landfill Competition, Field Operations/James Corner
- Downsview Park Competition, all finalist entries
- Parc de la Villette Competition, OMA entry/Rem Koolhaas
- Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam, West 8/Adriaan Geuze
:: Fresh Kills Park - Field Operations - image via Fresh Kills
:: Schouwburgplein - image via West 8
So two questions:
1. What are the elements required for a work of landscape urbanism ?
(i.e. scale, context, key concepts, necessary elements, temporality, products, etc.)
2. What projects would you consider a valid work of landscape urbanism?
(as opposed to, or differentiated from a work of another discipline: architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, ecology, etc.)
:: Downsview - The Digital and the Coyote - Tschumi - image via Downsview
Again, it may be one of those conceptual culs-de-sac involving the fuzzy distinction between a priori (conceptually defined) and a posteriori knowledge (proven through experience) and trying to retroactively apply intent versus finding those projects designed using a specific theoretical approach. In fact, I suspect that may be the case, but it's worth exploration. And, as there are folks actively designing under the guise of LU - what is the product, historical or contemporary that explains the concept in physical form?
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