Arts and design major Warehouse421 greens its programme landscape
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Features Writer
Warehouse421, the home-grown arts and design centre dedicated to showcasing and nurturing creative production across the region located in Abu Dhabi, has announced the opening of Total Landscaping, curated by Murtaza Vali.
Using an ethnographic approach, Gareth Doherty explores diverse forms of knowledge that constitute landscape architecture. Each of Doherty’s publications, including Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State, expands the limits and scope of landscape architectural theory and design by considering human ecology alongside environmental and aesthetic concerns. Doherty’s research broadens discussions on ethnography and participatory methods by asking how a socio-cultural perspective can inspire design innovations. Consequently, his work challenges and expands the canons upon which we understand landscape architecture.
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A $10 million gift to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has named the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center. Gensler family endows, names Cornell AAP NYC program
January 11, 2021
A $10 million gift to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has been given to the college by a multi-generational Cornellian family.
The gift, from M. Arthur Gensler, B.Arch. ’58, and his family, will sustain AAP’s thriving New York City-based program in perpetuity by naming the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center. The funding – which includes $9 million for the endowment and $1 million for current-use funds – will support programming and personnel, including the Gensler Family Sesquicentennial Executive Director position, currently held by Bob Balder ’89.
CHICAGO â Chicago isnât just an architectural capital because of its great buildings. Itâs a vital forum of ideas about what makes architecture great.
A case in point: this yearâs crop of recommended design books. Theyâre all related to the city and its suburbs, but have much broader appeal.
âChicagoâs Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American Cityâ by Carl Smith
The grim toll of the Great Chicago Fire still boggles the mind â more than 2,000 acres and 18,000 buildings burned, about 90,000 people left homeless, 122 miles of sidewalks and 2,162 street lamps destroyed. Yet Chicagoâs post-Fire recovery was just as startling. Just 22 years later, it put on a spectacular worldâs fair.