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Idea Vs. Icon: Two Competitions, Jeffrey Clark

Oz

The United States is blessed with a natural landscape that is both expansive and richly varied. Our recent attitude toward the relationship between the built and natural environment, however, has been at best a naively romantic one and at worst an instrument of private exploitation...

Big Things For Big Cities

Oz

Idea for Marconi Plaza. The symbolic purpose of this important urban project is to commemorate the Italian-American presence in Philadelphia and the contributions of this community to the City on the 500th Anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World...

American Gardens And Their European Precedents, Joanna Lombard

Oz

The study of American gardens and their European precedents has yielded two essential ideas. One is a way of categorizing garden form, the other an elaboration of the parts of American gardens that seem distinct and shared...

Trains, Windmills And Sand: An Entry To The Arizona Historical Society Museum Competition, Bob Burnham, Raymond Streeter

Oz

In 1985, the Arizona Historical Society sponsored a competition for the design of a museum to be constructed on a site in Tempe adjacent to Phoenix's Papago Park. This facility is intended to house the Society's collections documenting and illustrating the Hispanic and Anglo/Hispanic periods in Arizona history...

A Crematorium Complex: Manhattan, Kansas, Robert Bahan, Laurie Carron, David Hecht, Matthew Masilionis, Rhonda Miller

Oz

Today, a paucity of communicable design strategies or tactics exist for vitalizing the experiential and expressive relationship between built form and landscape. Landscape was not a primary concern of the Modern Movement except as a neutral green field upon which buildings were placed...

A Camp For The New Boston Cooperative: Cuyler, New York, Russell Hamlet

Oz

The New Boston Cooperative is an association of farmers, homesteaders and fellow travelers founded in the 1930's as a last ditch-attempt to reserve the traditional rural lifestyle of the region. Today members are well-educated refugees from the cities and suburbs with the same central purposes...

Structure In The Landscape; Interventions, Peter Goin, Dale A. Bryant

Oz

Structure in the Landscape: photographs by Peter Goin.

Interventions: a poem by Dale A. Bryant.