The site was in the Acushnet Heights (a Historic District) neighborhood of New Bedford, MA, a city of over 93,000 in decline. The attempt was to revitalize this neighborhood (with the myriad vacant lots and buildings,) a mere three tenths of a mile from Downtown … Read More →
Category Archives: Landscape Architecture
Urban Systems: Narrative Flows, Spring 2009
Our first Advanced Studio explored water issues in an urban environment in one of the poorest cities of the world: Kolkata, India. The sections below highlight the investigative process that our class pursued as we attempted to create an “Atlas” prior to travel to Kolkata … Read More →
Being and Circumstance, Winter 2009
Wintersession of my second year I had the opportunity to study Robert Irwin’s Four Categories of Sculpture (from his 1985 essay, Being and Circumstance) in the context of landscape architecture. Taking each of his categories: site dominant, site adjusted, site specific and site determined/conditioned, and … Read More →
Constructed Landscapes, Fall 2008
The site was the YMCA in Cambridge, MA, right across from City Hall in Central Square. There were two phases to the project: the first was designing a green roof/roof garden for the YMCA and the second phase was to design an urban park behind … Read More →
Site, Ecology and Design, Spring 2008
The site was Tilhinghast Farm in Barrington, Rhode Island, gifted to RISD after the second world war. The program was to design a 750 sq feet Botanical Illustration Studio as well as three study areas and a path leading to the studio from parking and … Read More →
Constructing Ground, Winter 2008
The site was the Providence River immediately outside of the architectural building (BEB) up to the old I-195 bridge. The existing site had a riverside park attempt which was a missed opportunity and whose participation by locals was anemic at best. The goal of this … Read More →
Stratified Overgrowth: A Thesis
This is an excerpt from my MLA Thesis, Stratified Overgrowth: The Displacement of Truth in a Landscape of Ruin.
Ruins sustain the validity that there can be many truths; that the ruin can be decaying – but that it can also be teeming with growth. The … Read More →