Charged Grounds: Places for People
Exhibition Opens Jan. 29, 2018
Lecture Feb. 12, 2018 | 6 p.m.
S. R. Crown Hall
Counts Studio’s Charged Grounds: Places for People is curated by Maria and Christopher Counts as part of the 2017-2018 landscape lecture and exhibition series at the Illinois Institute of Technology,College of Architecture.
The exhibition highlights six of the firm’s projects (2013-present) that explore designing contemporary landscapes to have a high level of physical, emotional and social resonance. The exhibition features built and speculative works through process sketches, scaled sculptural models, refined drawings, and photographs.
Counts Studio is an award-winning urban landscape design office based in Chicago and New York City committed to critical making and a process-driven approach in the design and planning of gardens, park, plazas, and memorials. With all of their projects, Counts Studio works to deliver innovative, community-minded spaces that are reflective of the diversity, energy and vitality of our collective contemporary urban culture.
Exhibition on display until Feb. 16, 2018.