Author(s)/Creator(s)

Garrett Wineinger

Document Type

Thesis

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Fall 2016

Keywords

central park, landscape, manhattan, grid

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture | Landscape Architecture

Description/Abstract

In this thesis, I will contemplate the necessary process of weaving the large landscape into the urban fabric. As stated within Anita Berrizbeitia’s essay, Re-placing Process, in the book Large Parks, “Yet for all their susceptibility to the ebb and flow of urban circumstances, large parks remain fundamental to cities, not only because they take on infrastructural and ecological functions displaced from densely built centers but because they are distinct, memorable places. They absorb the identity of the city as much as they project one, becoming socially and culturally recognizable places that are unique and irreproducible. Those large public parks that we are continually drawn to as designers, ones that have captured the imagination of writers, artists, social historians, and philosophers, and that continue to be used intensely centuries after their making, have in common seemingly contradictory characteristics: they are flexible, adaptive, socially dynamic, emerging sites, and they are also visually powerful, unforgettable places. They are the product of deliberate decisions that leave them open-ended in terms of management, program, and use, and they result from equally conscious decisions that isolate, distill, and capture for the long term that which make them unique.” Landscape is essential in the urban environment. Without it, we will loss ourselves in the expansion of urbanism, and risk the permeant separation of the natural and man-made.

Additional Information

This thesis received Honorable Mention.

Thesis Advisors: Richard Rosa with Amber Bartosh and Elizabeth Kamell

Thesis Prep Advisors: Benjamin Farnsworth with Mark Linder

Source

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Creative Commons License

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