In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

8th April - 14th September '09

MoMA
11 West 53 Street, New York

The Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition examining the evolution of attitudes toward landscape and architecture within the last hundred years.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the architectural avant-garde celebrated autonomy from nature, and architects devised utopian schemes for creating urban realms with little consideration for their surroundings. More recently, however, the challenges of a threatened environment and rapidly expanding cities have fostered a revised understanding of landscape.

Harmony between the spatial, social, and environmental aspects of human life has become a priority in political thought, and this has had profound reverberations in both architecture and landscape design.

"Landscape"—no longer understood merely as nature untouched—now encompasses complex interventions by architects and landscape architects in urban and rural surroundings.

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Garden Design by Roberto Burle Marx – The Museum of Modern Art