This feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion from urbanNext’s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today. “This notion of the countryside as romantic, bucolic, something that is unaffected by design no longer exists,” says Mohsen Mostafavi in an interview with urbanNext at the 2016 Venice Biennale, “Everything … is artificial, everything is a subject of transformation and a subject of design.” In this video interview, the Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design discusses the “radical transformation” that the field of landscape architecture has undergone in the past several decades due to the increasing scale of designed territories around the globe. “In the past, when people thought about landscape, they really thought either about the garden or they thought about … public parks,” says Mostafavi, citing the traditions of English, French and Italian landscape parks, whose prevalences have solidified these typologies as the champions of landscape architecture for much of the collective imaginary. ... , urbanNext .net, read more firms http://Firm/blog/mohsen-mostafavi-on-landscape-urbanism/
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