Venice Lagoonarl Field
Coastlines 02
Architectural Association
Landscape Urbanism
London, United Kingdom, 2002-2003
Director: Ciro Najle
Professors: Ciro Najle, Sebastian Khourian, Chris Fannin
Lecturers and Collaborators: Sandra Morris, Larry Barth, Ian Carradice
Students: Jose Arnaud Bello, Elsa Caetano, Robert Catano Sanchez, Sarah Gibson, Keisuke Kanio, Guan Kwang Lee, Caterina Padoa Schioppa, Adriana Porta Nobell, Eduardo Rico Carranza, Tako Suzuki
Landscape Urbanism constitutes a collective endeavour to construct a new model of practice where the techniques and modes of operation historically described as landscape design can be integrated within the domain of urbanism. The landscape offers the double opportunity to reframe urban problems and to recontextualize the practice of architecture in general. It introduces a context of immensity, a context of complexification, a context of time, a context of vitality with a life of its own, and a virtual context, simultaneously pre-existent and co-existent with actual urban conditions unfolding. These contexts open the conditions for a shift in the understanding of urban developments.
Second research in the Coastlines series, Venice Lagoonar Field explores the potentials and limitations of the development of coastal regions in the northern Mediterranean coast, using the Venice Lagoon as a case-study field that, both open and closed from the open sea, is currently negotiating its infrastructural and ecological condition through the deployment of heavy engineering means.
