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- Title
conversando con... KATHRYN GUSTAFSON.
- Authors
Pérez Igualada, Javier
- Abstract
Kathryn Gustafson is an internationally recognized landscape architect. Intially trained in art and fashion design, she later studied landscape architecture at the École de Paysage de Versailles in France. Here she developed her early work in this country, exemplified by the magical Les Jardins de I'lmmaginaire. S he is presently engaged in landscape practice through two two different practices: Gustafson Porter, based in London, and Gustafson Guthrie Nicol, based in Seattle. Workin with her colleagues at these firms, relevant works include Westergasfabriek Cultural Park in Amsterdam, the Lurie Garden at the Millenium Park in Chicago, the Princess Diana Memorial in Hyde Park, the first ever landscape installation at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice and the winning design o f Unified Ground: Union Square for the National Mall Competition in Washington, DC. Kathryn Gustafson's work has been widely published internationally and has obtained an astonishing number o f awards and recognitions. For her significant contribution to architecture and art, she was the first landscape architect to be awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy o f Arts and Letters in 2012. In 2014 she won the Obayashi Prize, and in 2015 she received an honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain. Kathryn Gustafson has always had a personal voice in contemporary landscape architecture, which remains relevant, innovative and meaningful. This voice stands out for the way it deals terrain modeling in her projects. This sculptural and sensual modeling can be seen in the Central Park Valencia, a project that is the result o f an international competition in which Gustafson Porter, along with Nova, Grupotec Engineering and Borgos Pieper architects, won the first prize, supported by widespread acclaim for her proposal.
- Subjects
GUSTAFSON, Kathryn; LANDSCAPE architecture; WOMEN landscape architects; ARCHITECTURAL awards; LANDSCAPES
- Publication
Revista de EGA, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 29, p12
- ISSN
1133-6137
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.4995/ega.2017.7346