The NYT examines the work of Mr. Oudolf a garden designer who belives the real test of a well-composed garden is not how nicely it blooms but how beautifully it decomposes.
The article includes quotes from noted landscape architects James Corner who hired Mr Oudolf to design the HighLine plantings and Charles Waldheim who notes that Mr. Oudolf has moved beyond the "soft pornography of flowers".
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I found this article intersting.
I'm not a follower, per-say, of 'New Wave Planting' [though I prefer it over the other stylistic options, I think] so not that well versed on where it's couched in landscape design. But it was intriguing to see quotes from the two leading theorists/practitioners of 'landscape urbanism'...
Indeed that is why i posted it.
Moreover i think Mr. Oudolf's approach falls in line with their (landscape urbanists) thinking, as if emphasizes performative ie: non aesthetic based decision making..
yes. but shouldn't the life cycle of a plant at its temporal transformation be at the base of every landscaper's thinking...
at a very young age i became enamored of the architectural implications of 'entropy' and it's never left me: the possibility of using the known effects of age, weather, etc when designing.
sure, we talk about it amongst ourselves, right?
the challenge: clients aren't really interested in buildings that show age or start to look not-new intentionally.
i shoulda been an l.a. ...
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