Sites and Terms List
with links to images
Transforming Times Square, summer 2009 (Artstor image group)
The High Line, opened June 2009 (Artstor image group)
First Designs for the High Line at the Rail Yards, High Line Blog, 3/13/12
After High Line's Success, Other Cities Look Up, Kate Taylor, NYTimes, 7/14/2010
Green Light for Midtown, New York City D.O.T. Broadway Pedestrian Zone project, 2009
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, 1989, design concept, staff blog
Treasuring Urban Oases, Michael Kimmelman, NYT, 12/1/11
Walking New York's Public Spaces, slideshow, NYT, 12/1/11
The Arab Revolution Takes Back the Public Space, Critical Inquiry
EXAM 1 begins here *****************************************************************
Study Tips for Exam 1
Defining Open Space
Click here for Framework for Basic Site Analysis (Artstor image group)
Related material on-line:
- BBC Dimensions
- Great Streets San Diego on formal qualities of great streets
- St. Louis Great Streets on Urban Scale, and experiential qualities of varying height to width ratios
Artstor image group
Terms and concepts: centrality, elevation, concentricity, spatial sequence
Related material on-line:
- Downloadable interactive reconstruction/visualization of Catalhoyuk
- Official website of the Catalhoyuk excavations
- "The First Cities," Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition website
- Mesopotamia at the British Museum
- on the Mesopotamian lion hunt, Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
- "The Threat to World Heritage in Iraq" (up to 2003)
- "The Iraq War & Archaeology" (2003-)
Acropolis and Forum: Greek and Roman Siting
Greek
Roman
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Terms and concepts:
Related material on-line:
Cyril Preiss photographs of Timgad
Ceremonial Sites in the Ancient Americas
Artstor image group
Terms and concepts:
- ball court
Related material on-line:
- For more on the Mesoamerican ballgame click here
- Systematic Mapping and urbanization studies of Teotihuacan (Stanford University)
- Theories about the orientation of Teotihuacan, and more theories
The Forbidden City: Planning in Ancient China
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Terms and concepts
Rituals of Zhou Li, celestial meridian, pivot of the 4 quarters, Hall of Supreme Harmony, Altars of Ancestors, Soil and Grain, Temple of Heaven
Related Materials on-line:
graphics
- click here for virtual panoramas of the Forbidden City (sponsored by the World Monuments Fund)
- Changing face of Beijing, NYTimes, 7/13/08, graphic of Olympics projects in context of city growth
- Lost in the New Beijing: The Old Neighborhood, NYT, 7/27/08, graphic of traditional courtyard houses lost
articles of interest
- Olympic Park to Become Heart of 'Second Capitol' to Beijing, People's Daily, 10/31/01
- Beijing's building boom, driven by the Olympics, mixes daring design with a totalitarian theme, LA Times, 8/3/08
- Olympic Stadium With a Design to Remember, NYT, 8/5/08
- Beijing Finance Street Architectural Record "Best Planning Project"
- The Hutong of Chongwen District, from Doc Ben's China Report
EXAM 2 begins here ***********************************************************************************
Shinto Shrines and Sacred Spaces
Artstor image group
Terms and concepts
kami, shime-nawa, gohei, torii, partial revelation, spatial segregation, site alternation, chigi, katsuogi
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Terms and concepts:
Zen Buddhism, zazen, koan, ku, mu, ma, yohaku-no-bi, kare-san-sui
Medieval Meanderings/Building Bastides
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Palazzo Publico
Terms and concepts:
feudalism, commune, organic growth town, piazza, urban regulations, uniform facade, uniform setback
Related materials on-line:
- Palio video by granted23 w/Fatboy Slim track
- map of bastides in southwestern France (Lot-et-Garonne)
Duomo, campanile, Palazzo Vecchio, Foundling Hospital, Church of SS. Annunziata, Via dei Servi, Ferdinand de Medici the First
Artstor Image Group
Terms and concepts:
form simplicity, continuity, dominance, directional differentiation, visual scope, singularity
Italian Piazzas: Meanings of Civic Space
Artstor Image Group
Terms and concepts:
vista and terminus, axial extension
Related materials on-line:
Exam 2 ends here
2 things to study
- Kevin Lynch chapter 4--be able to explain and apply terms emphasized in class and in our Text Clips section (form simplicity, contiuity, singularity, dominance, directional differentiation, visual scope)
- historical material (below)--be able to define terms, identify sites and explain their significance to the history of open space design
Artstor Image Group
Terms and concepts:
mosque, minaret, charbagh
Related materials on-line:
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Terms and concepts:
outdoor room
Exam 3 begins here
Green, Lawn and Square: Early American Space
Artstor Image Group
Terms and concepts:
Laws of the Indies 1573, Land Ordinance of 1785, palisade, common, green,
Related materials on-line:
- Click here for a map of U.S. territories
- (Land Ordinance of 1785 description, text ), 8 mile
A Nation's Capital: Washington, D.C.
Federal Triangle, reciprocity of views
Kite plan
Artstor Image Group
Related material on-line:
- Click here for Google Earth aerial view of Central Washington
- The Daily Show in Washington
A Most Generous Park: New York's Central
Artstor Image Group
Terms and concepts:
planting out, segregation of ways, pastoral and picturesque, the "power of scenery"
Related material on-line:
- Click here for the Park's official website, which includes a schematic map
- Click here for the Central Park Conservancy website, with detailed maps and virtual tours
- Click here for the official website of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" installation of February 2005 (cf. image galleries of the Shinto "Inari Shrine" site in Fushimi, Japan, such as these, or these)
- Click here for Stephen Colbert's take on Christo's "The Gates"
Light and Air: The Modernist Vision
Artstor Image Group
Terms and concepts:
"I am up in the air, up in the sky, in complete joy, in full light, everywhere" (Le Corbusier, Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning, 1930)
Related material on-line:
- Click here for LeCorbusier's 5 points of a new architecture
- Resident video on Chicago's Cabrini Green housing
- America's suburban sprawl: photo essay
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/arts/design/penn-south-and-pruitt-igoe-starkly-different-housing-plans.html
American Plazas and Architectural Landscapes
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Terms and concepts:
travertine, vest pocket park, quincunx, honey locust, granite set, exposed agregate, 1961 "bonus zoning" resolution
Related material on-line:
- Lawrence Halprin, Landscape Architect, Dies at 93, NYTimes, October 28, 2009
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Terms and concepts:
"What does it take to design a memorial that moves the human heart?" (Thompson, LA 7/04)
"There is a fine line between celebration and glory. Wars must never be glorified. War is destruction, upheaval, unspeakable suffering. There are times, however, when a nation of free people is called upon to defend its democratic principles and ideals. World War II was such a moment." (Augustus St. Florian, LA 7/04)
"When World War II veterans are no longer around, will this place evoke their sacrifice and accomplishment...?" (Freeman, LA 7/04)
Related materials on-line:
- For comparison:
- Paris: Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation (G. H. Pingusson, 1962)
- Sunday Morning Herald article about the Memorial
- Kristin Parker photos1
- McCullagh interior view
- Testing 9/11 Memorial fountains
- Aids Memorial Park in NYC, Architectural Record, 1/30/12
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial also here
- Constitution Gardens, Monument Grounds, Union Square Proposals, 4/12; National Mall Plan Summary, 2010
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Terms and concepts:
Sometimes the most important aspect of a given site is almost intangible. It is not necessarily what remains visible to the eye that matters most, but those forces and events that undergird the evolution of a place." (Christophe Girot, Recovering Landscape, 63)
Plots are not empty canvases, but full spaces, full of nature and history, whose latent forms and meanings can be surfaced, and made palpable,through design." (Elizabeth Meyer, Site Matters, 102)
Related materials on-line:
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Terms and concepts:
"The garden reveals the historicity of its existence. Layers of settlement, such as older form of land division and plant material, were made to appear" (Charney, CCA Garden, 91)
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Terms and concepts:
"Our memorial mandate, in all of its own complex richness, has been clear from the outset: to remember and honor those who died, to recognize the endurance of those who survived, the courage of the rescuers who risked their lives to save the lives of others, and the unbearable number who died in so doing--as well as the compassion of all those who supported the vicims' families in their darkest hours. The families and other advisory councils have also asked us to be especially mindful of the memorial's need to recognize the victims and those who tried to save them, to keep the footprints unencumbered, and provide access to the bedock at Ground Zero. In addition to meeting the program's needs, we also had to face the stark reality of reintegrating into the urban fabric a site that had been violently torn from it." WTC Memorial Jury Statement for Winning Design, 13 January 2004
"In our descent to the level below the street, down into the outlines left by the lost towers, we find that absence is made palpable in the sight and sound of thin sheets of water falling into reflecting pools, each with a further void at its center." (WTC Memorial Jury Statement, 2004)
"The design [of the Memorial Museum] is not meant to shy away from the “dualities” inherent in the new trade center, which will be a place both of mourning and of hope.... there was no wrong way for visitors to view the memorial pavilion. 'Because 9/11 was so much a lived experience, ... they will bring their own interpretations to the site. And that’s very powerful.'” (Dunlap, NYT, 9/9/08)
Related materials on-line:
- Live construction webcam
- Testing WTC Memorial waterfalls, NYT article, 11/10/2010
- Lower Manhattan Development Corporation responsible for WTC site development
- WTC Memorial Competition
- WTC Memorial Foundation
- Images of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum
- NYTimes article on September 11th Memorial and Museum
- 2011 video on progress at Ground Zero
- Green Design at WTC Memorial, Inhabitat 9/11/11 article
For comparison:
- Valhalla, NY: "The Rising" at Kensico Dam (Frederic Schwartz, 2004-05)
- Jersey City, NJ: "Empty Sky," , New Jersey 9/11 Memorial (Frederic Schwartz Architects, 2011)
Exam 3 ends here
Water, Water ... Contemporary Landscapes in New York
- NYC: Gantry Plaza State Park (Thomas Balsey Assoc. and Sowinski Sullivan Architects w/Lee Weintraub, opened 1998)
- NYC: Columbus Circle Plaza (The Olin Partnership w/Vollmer Associates, 2005)
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Related materials on-line:
- Aerial view of Gantry Plaza State Park
- ASLA 2001 Honor Award for Gantry Plaza State Park
- Aerial view of Columbus Circle Plaza
- ASLA 2006 Honor Award for Columbus Circle Plaza
- Images and reviews of Columbus Circle Plaza on Tom Fletcher's NY Architecture page
- ArchNewsNow links to articles on Ground Zero Memorial, published 9/11/11
Reinventing the East Side Waterfront, NYT 12/30/11
Times and Tides Weigh on Hudson River Park, NYT, 1/28/12
Landscape (and) Urbanism: Contemporary Trends
- The Manahatta Project
- "Groundswell"exhibtion at the New MOMA (2005)
- Project for Public Spaces
- LEED for the Landscape: The Sustainable Sites Initiative
- Malcom Wells and "Gentle Architecture"
- Sustainable Urban Development resources, American Society of Landscape Architects
- The Cultural Landscape Foundation
- In Arabian Desert, A Sustainable City Rises
- Sustainabile Parks Guidelines released, description in Go Greener
See also relevant readings on our blackboard site.
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