Bridget Riley - "For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."

Pamela Burton

Pamela Burton combines an extensive knowledge of plant materials and the history of landscape with an interest in architectural spaces that have symbolic resonance. She has taught and lectured on the significance of landscape and its relationship to art and architecture at many universities including the UCLA School of Architecture, the University of Southern California, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

In spring, 2003 Pamela completed a book titled Private Landscapes: Modernist Gardens in Southern California that profiles the suburban gardens designed by mid-century modernists Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and a number of their colleagues. The book was published by Princeton Architectural Press and is currently in its fourth printing. In 2010, Princeton publishedPamela Burton Landscapes, which focuses on the interrelationships and crossovers between twenty of her private and public projects. Her explorations in landscape have led to design symposia and international speaking engagements on such topics as “Garden as Sanctuary,” “Memory and Landscape,” “Balance and Uncertainty” and “Poetics of the Garden.”

Burton’s projects include private residences and public spaces in California, New York, Brazil, Japan, and Taiwan. Her work has been featured in many books including Pocket Gardens and Transforming the American Garden as well as in Landscape Architecture magazine, Garden Design, Process, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

As principal of the firm, Pamela Burton oversees conceptual design and plays a critical role in site and program analysis, design development, client presentations and construction observation.



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Sigiriya

Sigiriya is a World Heritage Site and is sometimes said to have ‘the oldest surviving garden in Asia’. The validity of the claim depends, of course, on one’s definitions and on the archaeological evidence. It Sigiriya were the garden of a residential palace then it could be 'promoted down' the list of antiquity.

Versailles

Versailles is the most famous garden in the world. Yet 'garden' is scarcely a fitting designation. The scale is monumental and there is little sense of enclosure. Versailles was designed as a palatial centre of government for an absolute monarch, Louis XIV. It is resplendent as the prime example of the French Baroque style, but it is not a friendly place. 'Overbearing' is a common description and English critics have often been disenchanted with the place. Walpole saw Versailles as 'the gardens of a great child' (H&T). Avenues project from Louis XIV's palace towards distant horizons, enfolding town, palace, garden and forest. There are imaculate parterres, great basins, an orangery, a vast collection of outdoor sculpture and some of the grandest fountains which have ever been made. The park and garden were designed by Andre Le Nôtre between 1661 and 1700. There are magnificient features: huge parterres, an orangery, famous fountains (which operate....), rich bosquets (ornamental groves), a 1.8 km cruciform canal. The Grand Trianon, another formal garden, was built on the site of a former village. Versailles also has later additions. The Petit Trianon was given to Marie-Antoinette in 1774. She favoured the irregular style, with hills, rocks and streams. The Hameau was designed in 1785, as a stage village, for Marie-Antoinette to play with her friends in the idle years before the French Revolution.

Thames Barrier Park

The Thames Barrier Park is a 34.6 acres park in London's docklands, named after its location on the north side of the River Thames next to the Thames Barrier Park. It is intended to aid the regeneration of the area by creating an attractive public space alongside residential and commercial developments.

Dale Chihuly

Jason Burges

Jason Bruges Studio, formed in April 2002, design and build interactive installations across 4 key sectors. These sectors include architecture, art, experiential marketing and lighting design consultancy. The multi-disciplinary team has grown significantly over the past 12 months and now includes creative architects, lighting designers, electrical engineers, programmers, industrial designers and mechanical engineers. Furthermore, the studios are supported by an experienced, high caliber management team to develop and deliver bespoke projects worldwide.

United Visual Artists

United Visual Artists are an art and design practice based in London. UVA produce work at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, live performance, moving image and digital installation. Pushing the boundaries of research, software and engineering with every, UVA's work aims above all to be meaningful and engaging.

West 8

West 8 is an urban planning and landscape architecture firm founded by Adriaan geuze in the Netherlands. It is known for its contemporary designs and innovative solutions to urban planning problems using lighting, metal structures, and color.

In the Netherlands, they are responsible for masterplanning a large-scale low-rise residential development on two peninsulas comprising the formerly dilapidated Borneo Sporenburg, part of the eastern harbor area of Amsterdam as well as for the bicycle bridges and footbridge leading to the area.

Project Listing:

• Schouwburgplein public square
• The Whale housing project
• Sporenburg Bicycle Bridge
• Canada's Waterfront
• Governor's Island redevelopment

Stourhead Garden

Stourhead is the best example of a garden inspired by the great landscape painters of the seveneeenth century. Ernst Gombrich suggests it should bear the signature of an Italianized French painter: Claude Lorrain (1600-82). The Stourhead garden was made by a wealthy English banker who had been buying works of art in Italy at the time he inherited the Stourhead estate. Henry Hoare II's 'Claudian' garden was made in an unusually well-proportioned valley behind the house. The Temple of Flora at Stourhead was made in 1745 and the grotto in 1748. But the key date was 1754, when the lake and the Pantheon were made. It is based on the Pantheon in Rome and the planned walk through the estate is based on the journey of Rome's legendry founder, Aeneas. The five-arched bridge was made in 1762 and the Temple of Apollo in 1765. Gothic features were added later in the century: Alfred's Tower, a Rustic Cottage and a Hermitage.The Stourhead woods were underplanted with Rhododendron ponticum after 1791 and with more exotic species in the twentieth century

Olafur Elliasson - "I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."

Peter Latz

Peter Latz (born 1939) is a German landscape architect and a professor for landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich. He is best known for his emphasis on reclamation and conversion of former industrialized landscapes. Retired today, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and is also a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Latz once noted in a foreword for the book Visionary Gardens by Ernst Cramer that the overall of landscape architecture could be applied in abstract rules. "The beauty of nature lies within the essence and effect of plants and materials."

Labassin Waterfall Restaurant

Highline Park New York

Manhattan’s Highline Park is an exercise in eco-friendly urban reclamation, the rescue of an abandoned raised freight line for the common good of the city. After traffic through these raised rails ceased in the 1980s, the line sat abandoned waiting for demolition. The neighbourhood of Manhattan’s west side rallied to save the raised line to create a public park with a green roof as an escape to the busy pace of the streets below. James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro cooperated to turn this aging eye sore into a green place of peace for Manhattan residents. The resulting park stretches across nine city blocks, featuring a contemporary design that fits well with the forward thinking people it was built to serve. Highline Park is a prime example of the old adage that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.

Brooklyn Grange is a commercial organic farm located on New York City rooftops. They grow vegetables in the city and sell them to local people and businesses. The goal is to improve access to very good food, to connect city people more closely to farms and food production, and to make urban farming a viable enterprise and livelihood.

Although they function as a privately owned and operated enterprise, Brooklyn Grange is community oriented and open to the public. School groups, families and volunteers are welcome to visit, participate and learn. This is a green space that contributes to the overall health and quality of life of the community, bringing people together through green business and around good food.

Pietro Porcinai

"Most architects have abandoned – out of cowardice or for money – the world of things built in harmony with nature, giving way to the birth of ugly towns and horrible suburbs. It’s up to the landscape architect to find a way of remedying this. But it requires a landscape architect capable of reflection prior to action..."