E_PORTFOLIO / GAVIN KEENEY
LANDSCAPE AGENCY NEW YORK

Gavin Keeney (Cornell, MLA 1993) has taught and written widely on the subject of landscape architecture as a topologically-inflected discipline … While the present-day form of the discipline often negates this sublime ‘nature’ within landscape architecture, it is (nonetheless) the ineluctable promise of the discipline to represent ‘the world’ … In many respects this resembles Emerson’s notion of knowledge as the terms with strike with the world … Landscape Architecture (the capitalized version) is currently undergoing expansion (and immersion), through a close dance with Architecture (the capitalized version), in the form of Landscape Urbanism and Urban Design … This fusion of disciplines represents a ‘return’ to the origins of the discipline of landscape architecture, insofar as the professional term is of relatively recent provenance … As this merger of previously divergent disciplines moves forward, it is essential to restore, as ‘ground’, the intellectual and discursive coordinates consistent with the emergence of a singular and specular discipline provisionally configured as L + A …

1/ PRECIS

OVERVIEW - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/golden.html
GK/CV - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/cv2.html
PUBLICATIONS - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/publications.html
LANY PROJECTS - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/projects.html

2/ SYLLABI / LECTURES

CCNY - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/ccny.html
UPENN - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/upenn.html
OSU/SOA - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/aura.html
CCNY/MUD - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/soma2.html
IFLA/PRAGUE - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/the_given.rtf
R,G,B/SEMINAR - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/map_2004.1.html
http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/adelaide1_2004.rtf
http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/adelaide2_2004.rtf
STUDIO ‘X’ - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/adelaide_2005.html

3/ PARATACTICAL EXERCISES / ESSAYS & DOSSIERS

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE (IR)REAL
http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/pdfs.html#the_real
RECONNAISSANCE: L+A++
http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/reconnaissance.html
LANDSCAPE FORMALISM, ANYONE?
http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/formalism.html
THINGS CZECH
http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/thingsczech.html
THE ANTI-ANTI-THEORY TRILOGY
http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/looking_awry3.html

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GK (11/19/05)

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