Trees Not Trash: An Interview with Kate Gilliam, Founder and Director
Trees Not Trash is an organization dedicated to improving the quality of open space in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. Kaarin Patterson caught up with Kate Gilliam to discuss some of the group's challenges and successes and their goals for the future.
Q and A with Liat Margolis,co-author of Living Systems
Published in 2007 as a compendium of green design techniques and resources Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture has become part of the new intellectual capital that is emerging from the landscape architecture/landscape urbanism field.
In 2008, Danielle Choi, one of our regular contributors was able to sit down with author, Liat Margolis and speak with her about the origins of this book, these new inroads for the discipline of landscape architecture and landscape urbanism as well as upcoming future projects for Liat.
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Artist Ilana Halperin at Artists Space
This Thursday, Artists Space opens their spring (yay!) exhibition with 3 artists - 2 of whom work with natural processes.
Artist Ilana Halperin, whose work exploring the personal narratives of Icelandic volcanoes we put up on topophilia in 2006, works with geologic time at an intimate scale.
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Robert Irwin's "9 Spaces, 9 Trees"
Like the coelacanth (or the Son of God, depending on your religious beliefs), Robert Irwin’s “9 Spaces, 9 Trees” rises from the dead!
But, is it still the same display of the avant-garde or a soulless reproduction riding the coattails of nostalgia? Irwin’s “9 Spaces, 9 Trees” (1983) originally installed in the plaza in front of Seattle’s Public Safety Building, was taken down in 2001 concurrently with the demolition of the building. Preservation efforts landed Irwin’s influential work on a grassy patch of underutilized land within the University of Washington campus in Seattle.
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Scotland, Day 2
Days 1 and 2 in Scotland.
The landscape is so totalizing and active. It rains, stops raining, becomes clear, many rainbows. The water is running down runnels in the sides of the roads like tiny creeks – everything is just happening – you see the processes – ancient, long lasting over time and immediate environmental conditions. The rocks by the sea loch are sculpted down to sinuous forms, pockets are enclaves for snails, mussels, scallops. What looks black and forbidding from one angle reveals its beauty from another. The compression of all things – time and matter.