Comments on: lurie garden

By: stefan

stefan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:12:03 +0000

well Tom, you have the advantage over me in actually having visited some of her schemes. certainly they look good in photographs, and i admire her for designing strongly in three dimensions, but i guess i’ll have to check her work out for myself before i can come to a conclusion. perhaps it is the planting that makes this garden?

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:58:56 +0000

The Princess Diana memorial is amazing! I haven’t visited it…but sometimes from a photograph you know a work will not disappoint. Kathryn seems to work very well in birds eye-view. And her schemas are very subtle in their resolution. I can see that Oudolf is very strong with plants. Their work is quite exciting…As a built environment designer they are definitely a team you would hope to work with!

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:32:37 +0000

I have been critical of Kathryn Gustafson for not being a place-maker. My impression of the Lurie garden is that it is excellent – but this was also my opinion of the four other Gustafson landscape designs before I went to visit them! Working with Oudolf may have eased the problem.
http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/designers/kathryn_gustafson

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:23:06 +0000

There is something about the scale of American park and garden design which has much to do with its ‘big’ city context. I am not sure that this translates well to the UK which is much more intimately and intricately settled and has more an altogether different sense of space and distance. I understand the allure of the contemporary approach….