Ken Smith Workshop
The lecture will focus on issues of ideas and craft in creating contemporary landscapes particularly at a larger scale. A number of new or recent projects will be discussed as case studies. It will address issues of scale, infrastructure and sustainability in the urban context. Ken Smith, FASLA, is one of the best-known of a generation of landscape architects equally at home in the worlds of art, architecture, and urbanism. Trained in both design and the fine arts, he explores the relationship between art, contemporary culture, and landscape. His practice, WORKSHOP: Ken Smith Landscape Architect, was established in 1992 and is based in New York City. He is committed to creating landscapes, especially parks and other public spaces, as a way of improving the quality of urban life. Much of his work pushes beyond traditional landscape typologies—plaza, street, and garden—to landscapes that draw on diverse cultural traditions and influences of the contemporary urban landscape. Smith’s approach is directed at projects of varying scales and types: temporary installations, private residential gardens, public spaces, parks, and commercial projects. With a particular emphasis on projects that explore the symbolic content and expressive power of landscape as an art form, the WORKSHOP specializes in the investigation of new expressions in landscape design. This lecture will offer one (1) LA CES credit. Please register here if you wish to receive credit.
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