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Lafayette Park, Detroit

Promotore: Herbert Greenwald

Progetto: Alfred Caldwell, Ludwig Hilberseimer,

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Progetto: 1955

Realizzazione: 1956-1965

Estensione territoriale: 32 ettari

Alfred

CALDWELL 1903-1998

http://web.iit.edu/about/history/hall-fame/alfred-caldwell

1960

2014

1960

2014

LP General Plan

LP Open Space

Contenimento / Scavo

Corrugamento

LP Closes

Melo selvatico, Sanguinella, Lillà, Viburno, Biancospino

LP Closes

LP End-streets + Parking Areas

Robinia su doppio filare

LP End-streets + Parking Areas

LP Public Park

Una serrata sequenza di radure e boschi

Sono usate essenze locali

«The New Regional Pattern will be determined by the

character of the landscape: its gegraphical and

topographical features, its natural resources»

[Hilberseimer, 1949]

Landscape Organic Design

Action painting/planting

Public Park as Common ground

Olmsted (Central Park)

Long view

through the park

Olmsted (Central Park)

Prairie Lanscape «The sense of space rejects the tiranny of closure. It

repudiates the sterile terrain of cities today that are as

prisons, spaceless and visionless» [Caldwell, 1961]

«The park interprets the sprit of native landscape.. It too is

an organism, and the sens of whole is evidente in all the

parts.. Is a conscius imaginative work of art, and not a

duplication of nature It is a structure ..based on a idea of

life and space.. It assert the rights of man to the wide

green earth» [Ibid.]

Jens Jensen, Columbus Park

Chicago 1915

Columbus Park

Columbus Park

Columbus Park

F.L. Wright, Fallingwater home

Penn, 1935

Fallingwater home

Fallingwater home

F.L. Wright, Broadacre city, 1934

A. Caldwell, Eagle Point Park

Iowa, 1936

Eagle Point Park

Eagle Point Park

«The merging of Nature and Architecture, resulting in a

kind of mysterious continuum of light and shadow, a

wavering reality, of a world glimpsed and undefinible,

uncertain and mesmerizing» [Caldwell, 1934.]

A. Caldwell, Lily Pool

Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1937

Lily Pool

Lily Pool

Lily Pool

Lily Pool

A. Caldwell, Lake Point Tower roof-garden, Chicago, 1974

Lake Point Tower roof-garden

Lake Point Tower roof-garden

Stoss Landscape Urbanism