Gavin Keeney, MLA

Landscape Agency New York

PRINT PUBLICATIONS

1/ BOOKS, ETCETERA

“Diving into Stars” (essay), in Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
On the Nature of Things: Contemporary American Landscape Architecture (Basel: Birkhauser, 2000) 

2/ ARTICLES, ESSAYS, REVIEWS

Many of the essays and reviews published since 1993 combine journalism and criticism. While not one or the other, others still are purely critical operations -- or surgical strikes -- on various manifestations of late-modern landscape-architectural and architectural representation (and practice). The essays published in academic journals are generally peer-review publications.
 
“Territories of Protest”, w/ Alicia Imperiale, Log 13/14 (Fall 2008)
“A Hyperarchitecture: Isozaki's Uffizi Exit”, Log 11 (Winter 2008)
“The World in a Grain of Sand” (critique of 2004 RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale, Traveling exhibition, University of Adelaide, SA), Place (Royal Australian Institute of Architects), Vol. 2, No. 1 (December 2005 / January 2006)
“The Return of the Irreal: The High Line” (competition critique), Competitions (Winter 2004-5)
“Somewhere Else (Australia)” (critique of Catherin Bull’s New Conversations with an Old Landscape), Kerb 13 (Autumn 2004)
“Moravian Shadows” (essay), Landscape Review 8:2 (Autumn 2004)
“May Day: Prague 2004” (travelogue/poem), Log 3 (Autumn 2004)
“Gnomic Works: The Sculpture of Kurt Gebauer” (critique), New Presence: Prague Journal of Central European & World Affairs (Summer 2002)
“Capitalism's Golgotha: The Fresh Kills Landfill to Landscape Design Competition” (critique), Competitions (Summer 2002)
“Requiem - Deus Non, nikoliv Deus Irae”, Architekt (January 2002)
“Architecture's Clay Feet” (books review/essay), Oculus (October 2001)
“Regarding Mies” (books review), Oculus (September 2001)
“The Body of the City” (Richard Meier & Partners project review, Prague), Architekt 8 (September 2001)
“Frank Lloyd Wright & Japonisme” (Japan Society exhibition review), Oculus (Summer 2001)
“Architecture + Water” (Van Alen Institute exhibition review), Oculus (May-June 2001)
“Post-McHarg” (Ian McHarg/‘Requiem’), Oculus (May-June 2001)
“Cities of Dreams: Historicizing Utopia” (New York Public Library exhibition review), Oculus (January 2001)
“Post-Industrial Chic: Plant & D.I.R.T.” (Architectural League lecture review), Oculus (October 2000)
“On the Plaza: A Ticklish Subject” (Van Alen Institute lecture review), Oculus (September 2000)
“Sarasota Plan Reconciles Small Town/Cosmopolitan Dilemma” (Duany Plater-Zyberk Sarasota Downtown Master Plan 2020), Architectural Record (September 2000)
“Renovated McCaw Hall to Blur Boundaries of Performer, Audience” (Seattle theater district plan), Architectural Record (August 2000)
“Seattle, Salmon & Silos: What to do about ‘Whoops’”, Architectural Record (June 2000)
“Stadium Parade Goes On with Montreal, San Diego Designs” (Antoine Predock project review), Architectural Record (May 2000)
“Ten Shades of Green” (Architectural League exhibition review), Oculus (May 2000)
“Reclaiming the Meadowlands” (Plant/Branch Plant project review), Oculus (May 2000) 
“Enduring Obstacles and Angst, Nouvel’s Prague Plan Progresses” (project review), Architectural Record (October 1999) 
“Facing (Down) Fake History” (essay on Prague baroque gardens), New Presence: Prague Journal of Central European & World Affairs (September 1999) 
“A Unique, Birdlike Bridge Joins Two California Shopping Centers” (Kathryn Gustafson project review), Architectural Record (August 1999) 
“Stealing Fire: The Organic Approach at Pratt” (symposium review), Oculus (May/June 1999) 
“Prague Castle, Once a Royal Hideout, Will Now Host a Public Park” (BRS Architectes project review), Architectural Record (May 1999) 
“The Street Tree as Hunger Artist” (competition critique), Competitions (Spring 1999) 
“Peter Zumthor Works” (book review), Oculus (April 1999) 
“Virtual Architecture” (book reviews), Oculus (April 1999) 
“Eclipse on 81st Street” (Kathryn Gustafson project review), Oculus (February 1999) 
“Michael Sorkin’s Wiggle” (book review), Oculus (February 1999) 
“Ideas for the East River” (Van Alen Institute exhibition review), Oculus (January 1999) 
“Designing Disney Theme Parks - at the Cooper-Hewitt” (exhibition review), Oculus (December 1998) 
“New York Stories” (book & project reviews), ANY (Architecture New York) 22 (1998) 
“Narrative Landscape” (book review), Oculus (October 1998) 
“The Method of Ian Hamilton Finlay” (essay), Daidalos 65 (Berlin, 1997) 
“Sipek neni Sipek (Sipek is not Sipek)” (critique), Architekt 22 (Prague, 1996) 
“A Revolutionary Arcadia: Reading Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Un jardin révolutionnaire” (essay), Word & Image XI/3 (London, 1995) 
“The Necessary Art of Wild Gardening” (essay), York County Star (York, Maine, March 19, 1986)

DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS

1/ COUNTERPUNCH - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/counterpunch.html

Gavin Keeney produced a series of critical essays and open letters under the rubric ‘Samizdat’ from 2001-2003. Many of these were picked up (re-published) by the Web journal CounterPunch. Other material published on the CounterPunch site was written expressly for the journal, “America’s best political newsletter” …

“The Infernal Machine” (CounterPunch, 08/23/03)
”The Drunken Flower” (CounterPunch, 07/26/03)
“Livres de luxe” (CounterPunch, 12/23/02)
“A Refracted History of the Twentieth Century” (CounterPunch, 11/02/02)
“Losing Ground Zero” (CounterPunch, 09/09/02)
“Beaux Rêves, Citoyens!!!” (CounterPunch, 09/05/02)
“Immortality: The Quest for Fire” (CounterPunch, 08/31/02)
“Auteur-Driven Vehicles” (CounterPunch, 08/19/02)
“Vox Populi: Everyone's A Critic” (CounterPunch, 08/03/02)
“Sublime Zizek” (CounterPunch, 07/27/02)
“Van Morrison: In September” (CounterPunch, 07/25/02)
“Grave New Urbanism” (CounterPunch, 07/20/02)
“Be Still My Beating Heart” (CounterPunch, 07/15/02)
“Go Tell Karl Rove!” (CounterPunch, 07/13/02)
“Loose Lips” (CounterPunch, 07/06/02)
“Mademoiselle M., or Getting Screwed in Paris” (CounterPunch, 06/08/02)
“Bush & Mies van der Rohe: Architecture & Ideology” (CounterPunch, 06/01/02)
“The Unbearable Lightness of NGOs” (CounterPunch, 05/25/02)
“Bête Noire: The Great Game (Again)” (CounterPunch, 05/22/02)
“So Long Frank O. Gehry?” (CounterPunch, 04/28/02)
“Mouth Wide Shut” (CounterPunch, 04/08/02)
“Dies Non, Not Dies Irae” (CounterPunch, 09/18/01)

2/ HERE & THERE - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/publications.html#elsewhere

See link above for an updated list of essays, etcetera posted ‘Elsewhere’ …

3/ LANY ARCHIVE-GROTTO - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp

The A-G (Archive-Grotto) is a maze/labyrinth of affects/effects surveying the wreckage of Architecture (its broken premises and promises) and the always already deferred ‘futural’ thing-in-itself -- viz., the synthesis of Art, Architecture, and Philosophy …

Samizdat - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/samizdat.html
Anti-Journal - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/anti-journal.html
Select LANY PDFs / RTFs - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/pdfs.html

GK (Updated 01/03/09)

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