Suncheon City, Korea: Holding The Eco-Line / [presented by] Charles Jencks.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Jencks, Charles, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (40 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 2015.

Summary:

American-born Charles Jencks is a landscape architect, theorist and critic best known for his Garden of Cosmic Speculation, near Dumfries, Scotland, and his writings on post-modernism. He has designed landscapes projects around the world, including Parco Portello in Milan, Northumberlandia near Newcastle, England and Wu Chi at the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing. Jencks is also co-founder of the Maggie's Centres - a series of cancer care centres designed by leading modern architects, named in honour of his late wife Maggie Keswick. In this talk, Jencks discusses his recent project Holding The Eco-Line, a landscape design for the Suncheon Bay Expo in 2013. He explains the development of the design, and his Korean hosts' reaction to it, as well as the importance of symbolism in his work. He also discusses his latest creation the Crawick Multiverse, inspired by cutting edge theories of the origin of the universe.

Contents:

Charles Jencks: Suncheon City, South Korea. Aerial Photograph

Suncheon City, South Korea. Photomontage Showing The Red Eco-Line & The Mounds Pulling In The Far Mountains

Suncheon Bay Garden Expo, South Korea. Opening Ceremony

Spirals Of Time, Parco Portello, Milan, Italy. Aerial Photograph

Northumberlandia, Newcastle, England. Aerial Photograph

Crawick Multiverse, Kirkconnel & Sanquhar, Scotland. Panorama

Crawick Multiverse, Kirkconnel & Sanquhar, Scotland. Multiverse Plus Galaxies.

Notes:

Recorded at Charles Jencks' house in west London in May 2015.

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 16, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.