Landscape: Small Works - Prose/Poetry

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Landscape: Outside Visit - The Discipline of Nature / HistoryMiami

The Discipline of Nature

Architect Alfred Browning Parker in Florida

   In the 1940s modern architecture took over Florida and Alfred Browning Parker played a very important role in leading this movement. Throughout his career he came up with many principles that focused on organic architecture and really took into account the nature around him in Florida to reflect that in his work. Parker made tons of work and his Florida architecture turned him into a regional figure and a national icon. 

   I honestly really love Parker's designs and would love to live in a house that he designed. All the photos of the houses from Coral Gables and Coconut Grove are amazing, what I really love about his designs most are how he combines the structure and nature. It is almost as if they're just giant tree houses, and it really gives you the feeling that you are part of nature and not just stuck inside of a house. His designs are just so visually appealing and so aesthetically pleasing. 

(like look at those trees! wow!)

Landscape: Outside Visits - Visionary Metropolis / The Wolfsonian

Visionary Metropolis

Tony Garnier's Une Cité Industrielle

   This exhibit talks about how the industrial revolution was a huge crisis at the beginning of the 20th century, and this caused many designers to come up with new ideas to improve the living conditions of urban life. Tony Garnier being one of these designers to come up with hundreds of plans for an ideal city that evoked France. Garnier's drawings were inspired by science fiction, classical ruins, and rational design principles which can all be seen in his work. 

   Every part of the city that Garnier came up with was geared toward health and recreation, everything from the parks, sanitation systems, fitness centers etc. I really appreciated the attention to detail that Garnier put into his work and how "mathematically correct" (if that makes any sense, maybe architecturally correct is a better term?) they were. You can really tell that he was completely invested in his work. 

                                              

   

Landscape: Exercises(readings?) - Garden Research

•    Buckminster Fuller--When was he working?

Buckminster Fuller was a 20th century inventor and visionary born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1895. He wanted to make the world work for all of humanity, he showed his ideas as inventions that he called “artifacts.” Also, the inventor of the geometric dome. 

•    Ha-has (recessed walls)--where do you find these?

A ha-ha is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier while preserving views. Ha-has are used in landscape design to prevent access to a garden by people or animals. In security design, the element is used to prevent vehicles from entering.

•    Parco del Mostri--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

Park of the Monsters. Created during the 16th century. Located in Bomarzo, in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio, Italy.

•    Roman Forum--What function did it have? Where, when, what's your favorite image?

First began being built in 29 BC. A Forum was the main center of a Roman city. Used as a gathering point for all different types of activities.  

•    Boboli Garden--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

A park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a collection of sculptures dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries, with some Roman antiquities.

•    Jardin du Luxembourg--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

Located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, was created beginning in 1612. 

•    Tivoli Garden (Italy)--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome.

•    Bernini's Four Rivers--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

Fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

•    Jean Dubuffet's Jardin d'Emaille--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

Made in 1974 after a 1968 model. Gelderland, Netherlands

•    Stowe Garden--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

Stowe House is located in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. Opened 1683.

•    Stourhead Garden--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

Stourhead is a 1,072-hectare estate at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire, England. Opened 1725.

•    Washington DC (The Grand Park)--Where, when, what's your favorite image?

Construction started 1848, opened 1888, Washington DC.

•    Viscaya Museum--Why is this in Miami?  What is it named after? Who is responsible for it being built?  Where, when, what's your favorite image?

Deering began to purchase the land for Vizcaya in 1910 from Mary Brickell. In 1912, Deering purchased an additional 130 acres of land and construction in 1913. Construction not completed until 1922. Deering wanted his estate to embody South Florida’s history, legends and mythology.

•    Fairchild Tropical Garden--Why is this in Miami?  Who is it named after?  Where,

when, what's your favorite image?

Established in 1936 by Robert H. Montgomery, opened to the public in 1938. It was named after his good friend David Fairchild, one of the great plant explorers that brought more than 20,000 important plants to the U.S. Fairchild plays many roles, including museum, laboratory, learning center and conservation research facility, but most importantly it preserves biodiversity.

(me at Fairchild like 2 years ago)

Landscape: Small Works - The Street

Dadeland North Metrorail Station 

parking garage 6th floor 

(Writing & Sketches)

Rhinoceros: In-Depth - Metamorphosis

  I used hundreds of bullets to create a mask/face-armor so 

instead of using bullets for violent acts, 

they are being used as a non-violent mode

 of self defense. 

Landscape: Readings - "Green Dreams: Gardens"

 The way this is written was kind of difficult to understand because of the way the author speaks in these kind of "metaphors" when he is talking about, or describing something.  But otherwise, what I got from this reading was that this author views gardens as a form of art and says that they are very symbolic and have a lot of meaning. Throughout the reading he talks about all different types of gardens like from historical gardens to new gardens and gardens from all over the world. He also describes them all in great detail. 

   As you keep reading the author just keeps on describing all these different places and how gardens differ everywhere. The author does this by emphasizing on what is special about that specific type of garden and what differentiates it from the others. The reading comes to an end by saying that gardens always mean something else and that man always uses one thing to say another. I feel like a saying that would apply here would be "life imitates art" as cheesy as that may sound it is true according to what the author thinks about how the outside is arranged to suit the inside. 

Rhinoceros: Small Works - Portrait/Propaganda

Portrait/Propaganda

Rhinoceros: Outside Visit - PAMM Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

A Universe of Fragile Mirrors

   As soon as you walk into the room where this exhibit is set up you feel like you are transported somewhere else because of the dark lighting and all these giant videos projected on the walls and this giant cube structure in the room. I found Beatriz's work super interesting and relatable, but in a way that I can't really put into words. Her work depicts what life in the Caribbean is really like, specifically Puerto Rico and Haiti. I loved the realness and raw nature of the videos, it didn't feel like they were scenes that were set up, it just felt completely real almost as if you were really there experiencing the situation in real life. I myself have been to Puerto Rico and Haiti, so it was interesting to be able to see these places from a different perspective rather than just as a tourist.  

   I also really enjoyed the videos that seemed to be filmed through the mirrored sculptures that were placed on the table; those videos were really cool to watch because of all the distortions that happened with the mirrors. The records that were playing nature sounds were also very interesting to just listen to, this exhibit, as a whole was just so visually and audibly stimulating. Beatriz was able to transport the viewer to a different location via just audio and visual. 

Rhinoceros: Small Works - Creature/Other

A "Hippopotamus"

(Detail)

Native 

Rhinoceros: Readings - Nicolas Lampert

A People's Art History of the United States

Nicolas Lampert

   This reading talks about how photographers have the power to change anything that is going on in a photo, which means that photos often tell us more about the photographer than what is being photographed. In this reading they talk specifically about Native Americans being photographed as if they were untouched by white society, which was seen as problematic by many people because it is a false representation of the reality Native Americans live. The Native Americans became angered by all of this and started resisting the camera and protesting against photographers. Natives took matters into their own hands and became photographers to document their culture in a correct way that only they could do. 

   I can totally understand why the Natives were angered by these outside photographers documenting them in a false way. I completely agree that photos turn out way better when they are truly one hundred percent authentic as opposed to staged. When a photo is staged it loses so much meaning versus actually capturing a real moment in time and portraying things how they actually are.