Moma Roof Garden Ken Smith

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Moma roof garden ken smith.

They wanted a garden but they didn t want any leaks. Never to be accessible to the general public the 17 400 square foot garden sitting six floors above street level was destined to function more as one of the museum s collected works of modern and contemporary art than as an inhabitable landscape. Full text of ken smith landscape architects urban projects a source book in landscape architecture source books in landscape a j5e9 jn4 see other formats. Orange county great park.

The new roof garden on top of the taniguchi building at the museum of modern art in new york marks a contemporary addition to the landscape spaces at the museum which also include the modern sculpture garden designed by philip johnson and zion. See the roof below this garden is over the museum s new sixth floor gallery space. Ken smith the landscape architect behind moma s audacious artificial rooftop brings his penchant for whimsy and irony to a new exhibit at the knowlton banvard gallery. When the museum of modern art commissioned ken smith to design two roof gardens on the sixth floor of the expanded museum designed by yoshio taniguchi the challenge was in the restrictions.

Wallflowers explores themes of randomness order surface and materiality through the idiosyncratic placement of silk flowers on a 1 x 1 grid on all surfaces of the gallery. Ken smith landscape architect new york ny. The design of the roof garden appropriates the visual vocabulary of military camouflage to create a garden that simultaneously disguises the roof while making it highly visible. Winner of 8 asla.

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Ken smith is a fantastic landscape architect. In 2002 moma curator peter reed asked ken smith to propose an imaginative roofscape installation for the new gallery addition by architect yoshio taniguchi. Smith accomplished the goal of creating lightweight faux garden at moma plastic rocks styrofoam edging phony boxwood 185 crushed recycled rocks 7 tons crushed glass 4 tons rubber mulch 560 artificial boxwoods it is visible only to people who live above the museum of modern art no visitors allowed he told us he based the garden layout on a camouflage pattern he likened modern. So they hired smith to commit the crime of the century.

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