Nature reorganized

The history of humanity is a story of organized action upon the land, whether that is considered as a complex ecology that includes living and non-living things or as a functionally empty surface for the imposition of efficient systems and forms. If a place teems with hidden riches then these can be extracted as valuable views and useful materials. Such organization of the natural and its opposite is one of the first and perhaps most fundamental architectural acts.

Miller, David View of the Canadian National Port Bridge and Canadian National Wellington Bridge looking south from the control tower, Montréal, Québec October 1985

The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California

Power and Planning

First, the Forests

Primers of Forestry

Learning from… Labrador Trough

Everyone Just Left

Waste-Wilderness

Marilyn Bridges and the Exotic Restricted Areas of the US Military

Views of Lake Ontario

Olmsted, Burley, Friedlander, James

Troubled Waters

No Parks?

Gardens and Parks Can Sometimes Cheat

Direct from Nature

George Ranalli, architect and model maker, 1977-, George Ranalli, model maker 1946-, Aaron McDonald, model maker active ca. 1995 and Julie Shurtz, model maker active ca. 1995

Put man into possession of his own Earth

New Tropicality

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Learning from… Labrador Trough

A presentation by Alessandra Ponte, Stephen Kowal, and their students

What are the implications for the built environment of a large iron ore belt spanning the Labrador-Quebec border?

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This presentation took place in 2014 as part of the Learning from… series, which takes its title from Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour’s influential publication, and in this spirit brings together experts to explore specific urban conditions and their relevance to the future development of cities.

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