Registration Eligibility
Open to ASLA Members who attend the INASLA Annual Meeting
Start Date
09/27/2019
End Date
09/27/2019
Description
Landscape architecture has an expansive and expanding role in contemporary design, addressing how we occupy the ‘ground’ of a planet defined by an intense variety of geographical and cultural surfaces within an environment of accelerating changes. Landscape architecture invariably speculates on this fundamental disposition between man and nature, demarcating, eliminating or reconciling the imagined boundaries and meanings implied by these two words. With this talk, I would like to examine a unique architectural element, the ‘pavilion’, an idea specifically purposed to explore the linkage between architecture design and landscape design, and an idea that encourages cross pollination and re-interpretation between these two disciplines.
The ‘pavilion’, itself a vague word in architecture, can be recognized as a form of building that sits apart, often as an object, openly linked to the ‘landscape’ around it, or alternately may refer to a separate, but connected, part of a larger architectural/building composition. The interpretation of ‘pavilion’ this talk examines is related to an act of architectural design fundamentally committed to an explicit relationship to that which belongs outside of, not inside to the pavilion. The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe, and almost any building designed by Richard Meier, belongs to this interpretation.
The examples of the landscape/architecture pavilion I will discuss, the Sala delle Prospettive in the Villa Farnesina by Baldassare Peruzzi in 1515, the stair sequence of the Boston Public Library by Mckim, Meade and White in 1911, and the Miller house and garden in Columbus, IN by Eero Saarinen and Dan Kiley in 1957, each remarkably depend upon landscape architecture to resolve and sustain their premise as an idea, even in the instance when no ‘landscape’ is available.
T. Kelly Wilson is Director of the IU J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program in Columbus, IN and is an Associate Professor in the IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design, Bloomington, IN. He has held academic positions in architectural design at the Harvard GSD, Yale University, MIT, Columbia University, Northeastern University and Auburn University. Wilson received his Master of Architecture from the Harvard GSD, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University.
Location
Carmel, IN
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.0
Learning Outcomes
1. The types of linkages between site and building that serve to demonstrate the primacy of site and Landscape Architecture to an architectural conception.
2. Cross-pollinating ideas between architecture, art and landscape architecture
3. The ability of the ‘virtual’ to supplement the ‘real’ in landscape and architectural design
Instructors
T. Kelly Wilson
Course Codes
INASLA-19112
Provider
Indiana Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects