Comments on: The Art of Lawn??? http://thegerminatrix.com/2010/10/12/the-art-of-lawn/ by Ivette Soler Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Susan aka Miss R http://thegerminatrix.com/2010/10/12/the-art-of-lawn/comment-page-1/#comment-10352 Susan aka Miss R Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:59:17 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1178#comment-10352 Love Irwin's work. He's concerned with space, time and impact. The circular bowl at The Getty is genius as is the bosque of trees at Dia: Beacon here. I think artists make us re think our own work...isn't that what they're supposed to do? Sure it was a plum, but what a plum it is. Thanks for sharing. Love Irwin’s work. He’s concerned with space, time and impact. The circular bowl at The Getty is genius as is the bosque of trees at Dia: Beacon here. I think artists make us re think our own work…isn’t that what they’re supposed to do? Sure it was a plum, but what a plum it is. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Andrea http://thegerminatrix.com/2010/10/12/the-art-of-lawn/comment-page-1/#comment-10349 Andrea Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:26:32 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1178#comment-10349 Fascinating post, Germi. You took me right along for the ride. I would have the same reaction as you, I bet: at first horrified, then slowly won over. That is some GREEN grass! (What do they use on it, I wonder). But forget all that. What I really wanted to say was: Fritz Haeg wrote your intro?! You know ALL the cool kids. Jealous! Fascinating post, Germi. You took me right along for the ride. I would have the same reaction as you, I bet: at first horrified, then slowly won over. That is some GREEN grass! (What do they use on it, I wonder).

But forget all that. What I really wanted to say was: Fritz Haeg wrote your intro?! You know ALL the cool kids. Jealous!

]]> By: MB http://thegerminatrix.com/2010/10/12/the-art-of-lawn/comment-page-1/#comment-10347 MB Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:05:57 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1178#comment-10347 Would be very curious to hear Irwin's process & concerns in planting this space. Did LACMA insist he keep his maintenance budget low? Is the subterranean parking garage keeping him from planting anything with a deep root system? The intricate plantings of the Getty garden require the attention of full-time horticulturalists (who must also be agile enough to climb down the zig-zag and spiral) but not this new LACMA space. It's the definition of mow & blow. The excitement and continuous tension of the Getty garden is that Richard Meier's rationalist cubes & clean lines will always fight with the lyrical meander of plantings & DG pathways that Irwin has given us. Though each may despise the other, Meier and Irwin gave us unending dynamism; the garden answers the architecture. At the new Broad wing, the garden merely apes the architecture. Irwin takes familiar California tropes (clean horizontality, agaves, palms, lawn) and seems to play second fiddle to Renzo Piano's bold lines & repetition, whimsical reds at the saturation of child's toys, and ever familiar travertine. The Getty garden is situated and designed such that it is master of its own domain. The palm garden at the Broad will always be in service to Piano's building that overshadows it. Southern Californian landscape designers are required to lead by example -- to ween us away from the antiquated and irresponsible idea of the lawn with an ever-widening tool kit of design solutions. What led Irwin to take the easy way out? That his work at the Broad looks like a deadly accurate & therefore stunning depiction of a Hockney painting is not in question. That his 28,000 square foot lawn is at the heart of the Miracle Mile, likely to be seen & assimilated as a great design choice by thousands IS at issue. How many new private lawns will this one very public lawn inspire? Would be very curious to hear Irwin’s process & concerns in planting this space. Did LACMA insist he keep his maintenance budget low? Is the subterranean parking garage keeping him from planting anything with a deep root system? The intricate plantings of the Getty garden require the attention of full-time horticulturalists (who must also be agile enough to climb down the zig-zag and spiral) but not this new LACMA space. It’s the definition of mow & blow.

The excitement and continuous tension of the Getty garden is that Richard Meier’s rationalist cubes & clean lines will always fight with the lyrical meander of plantings & DG pathways that Irwin has given us. Though each may despise the other, Meier and Irwin gave us unending dynamism; the garden answers the architecture.

At the new Broad wing, the garden merely apes the architecture. Irwin takes familiar California tropes (clean horizontality, agaves, palms, lawn) and seems to play second fiddle to Renzo Piano’s bold lines & repetition, whimsical reds at the saturation of child’s toys, and ever familiar travertine. The Getty garden is situated and designed such that it is master of its own domain. The palm garden at the Broad will always be in service to Piano’s building that overshadows it.

Southern Californian landscape designers are required to lead by example — to ween us away from the antiquated and irresponsible idea of the lawn with an ever-widening tool kit of design solutions. What led Irwin to take the easy way out? That his work at the Broad looks like a deadly accurate & therefore stunning depiction of a Hockney painting is not in question. That his 28,000 square foot lawn is at the heart of the Miracle Mile, likely to be seen & assimilated as a great design choice by thousands IS at issue. How many new private lawns will this one very public lawn inspire?

]]> By: Alice Joyce http://thegerminatrix.com/2010/10/12/the-art-of-lawn/comment-page-1/#comment-10346 Alice Joyce Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:56:06 +0000 http://thegerminatrix.com/?p=1178#comment-10346 Germi my sweet, To say that I'm green, GREEN with envy that you've been and gone, and spent time, and photographed this new landscape is an understatement!!!! So, a lawn as a major element in this new lauded LACMA setting: I simply must get there to see it for myself. Still, your photography is divine, and conveys the design dialogue perfectly. xoxo tendril Germi my sweet,
To say that I’m green, GREEN with envy that you’ve been and gone, and spent time, and photographed this new landscape is an understatement!!!!
So, a lawn as a major element in this new lauded LACMA setting: I simply must get there to see it for myself. Still, your photography is divine, and conveys the design dialogue perfectly. xoxo
tendril

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