Modern
THIS PAST WEEKEND, I TRAVELED to New York City to see an exhibition of landscape architecture at the Museum of Modern Art. Well, okay, the MoMA exhibit was not the main reason I went to New York — enjoying the last gasp of summer with a little vacation time in the Big Apple was my primary objective. But while I was there, I stumbled upon this interesting exhibit, and so I took the time to check it out and to document it. So I’m uploading some of the photos that I took at the gallery, complete with the original texts that accompanied the drawings and models. And I’ll add just a few short words of my own by way of introduction: More often than not, art installations and academic articles about architecture are incomprehensible and irrelevant. But occasionally it is a valuable exercise to see what so-called institutions of higher learning and haughty-totty art snobs are saying about our industry, because some of these ideas can lead to new ways of understanding the landscape and how we might better transform it…
