Architecture 2004
This weekend's edition of the The New York Times Magazine is dedicated to Landscape architecture. Among the articles are:"It is probably safe to say that for most people, landscape architecture -- specifically, the design of large private gardens -- is the province of the wealthy, or at least the well-off. Even for the most avid amateur gardener, the idea of bringing in big machines to alter the contours of the earth, planting avenues of trees or trimming boxwoods into topiary conjures a world in which sweat equity is small change."
Why not a Park?
"So why not a park -- a grand urban park for downtown Manhattan? Earlier this spring, The New York Times Magazine asked several leading landscape-architecture firms to consider the question, and the proposals that are illustrated on the following pages offer a provocative variety of responses."
"Late last summer, I moved from Zone 5 to Zone 9, or, to be both more and (at least to a gardener) less geographically precise, from southern New England to Northern California. We gardeners divide the world into zones of plant hardiness; the lower the number, the colder it gets; so to go from Zone 5, with winter lows reaching 20 below, to Zone 9, where it barely freezes, is, horticulturally speaking, tantamount to a change of planet. I've been gardening seriously for 25 years and have learned all sorts of things, yet I feel as if I now have to start from zero.