26 July 2007

When Landscape is Architecture?

Business Week reprints an Architectural Review story on the innovative work in landscape architecture called, When Landscape is Architecture. It seems to be a bit of eco-revelatory, a tad post-industrial, and all eco-aware. In one part the interview D.I.R.T about their work at the Philly Navy Yard:
The studio’s two landscape architects, Julie Bargmann and Christopher Fannin, approach each site design as an investigation of existing conditions, with the goal of reconfiguring those into an emergent, new condition. “These postindustrial places have these echoes and we have to find in them the transformative agent that makes them relevant today,” Fannin says. “We also work with the premise that nothing leaves the site.”

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