MLA Exhibit
IIT Architecture Chicago's Master of Landscape Architecture Program is holding an exhibition that showcases student work in S. R. Crown Hall's North Core.
In addition to student work, the program is re-staging the exhibit Dialogues on Urbanization: Emerging Landscapes (DUEL) from March 2015.
The exhibition, "Dialogues on Urbanization: Emerging Landscapes", examined landscape architecture in the age of planetary urbanization and opened with a reception on Mon., Mar. 23, 2015 from 4:30 to 6:00 and followed by a lecture by landscape architect Adriaan Geuze, Co-founder of West 8, Rotterdam.
Over the past decade, the design disciplines have increasingly adapted their research and design methods in response to the complexity and speed of urbanization in the 21st century. "Dialogues on Urbanization: Emerging Landscapes" takes stock of recent disciplinary developments in research methods, design strategies, and representational modes in landscape architecture and urbanism through pairing eleven speculative and eleven built projects. Diverse in geography and content, each pair addresses a common issue stemming from 21st-century processes of urbanization. From flood mitigation strategies in Seoul to freight-based settlements in the Illinois Fox River Valley, "Dialogues on Urbanization" underscores landscape architecture’s considerable contribution towards reimagining urban systems such as mobility networks, agricultural production, and waste flows, at multiple scales, from the planetary to the hyper-local.
Participants:
Catalyzing Social Productivity: Diana Wiesner Arquitectura y Paisaje eu + Margen-Lab & Owar
Conducting Urban Metabolisms: Studio Marco Vermeulen + Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape
Cultivating Industrial Ecologies: Nelson, Byrd, Woltz Landscape Architects + Forbes Lipschitz
Digesting Urban Externalities: Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning and Design Institute + ATLAS Lab
Engineering Landscape Infrastructure: SLA + SCAPE / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Grounding Global Capital: Newtown Landscape Architects + Adriana Chávez
Growing Hydrological Infrastructure: Turenscape + Chon Supawongse
Harnessing Latent Ecologies: PARKKIM + Luis Callejas & Camilo Restrepo
Leveraging Regional Resources: PFS Studio + Parallax Landscape
Reconciling Abundance and Scarcity: Atelier Jacqueline Osty and associés + Fadi Masoud
Seeding Alternative Futures: Batlle i Roig & Teresa Galí-Izard + Xiaoxuan Lu