Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
the Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture park is featured in the Museum of Modern Art publication, Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape edited by Peter Reed, and corresponding to an exhibit at the museum. The description from the exhibition reads:
"Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape presents twenty-three landscape-design projects that reveal the surge of creativity and critical debate in the design of public spaces, from small urban plazas to large parks for post-industrial sites to long-range plans for entire urban sectors. In the last twenty years, the most significant new landscapes have been designed for sites that were reclaimed from conflict, degradation, or abandonment. The projects, located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, were selected for their outstanding design and to show a variety of scales, contexts, materials, and types of spaces found in the contemporary landscape. Many of the projects’ transformations are tracked through before-and-after visuals to underscore these dramatic shifts in use and topography. Models, drawings, and photographs are complemented by large-scale video projectionsmany created for the exhibition—conveying the space, time, context, material, and palette of each project."
See an exert from the publication below.
February 25, 2005
Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
Exhibition by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi
Museum of Modern Art