![]() ![]() The “Selection of Los Angeles Theme Modules” catalogues the various environments Wines developed for the Pershing Square project. Cooper-Hewitt’s two drawings illustrate the logic of Wines’ scheme. Each module represents a unique “mini-environment” with its own vegetal and aesthetic profile derived from the surrounding city. Wines further divided the square into a pattern of modular grids. Museum purchase through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt, 1993-115-3. Using the park’s original footprint, Wines developed an undulating topography around the square’s periphery, leveling the space into a central valley at the square’s nucleus.ĭrawing, Proposal for Pershing Square, 1986. Wines was inspired by the city’s topography, a “vast, gridlike carpet with rumpled corners where the hills surround the central plain,” as well as the city’s cultural mosaic. Though the project ultimately went to architect Ricardo Legorreta and landscape architect Laurie Olin, Wines’ proposal is commendable for its effort to revolutionize the historic square while paying homage to the surrounding context. ![]() Wines’ 1986 design for the Pershing Square redevelopment in Los Angeles illustrates the architect’s unique design philosophy. “Buildings conceived of as integrations of structure and landscape,” he writes, “are mutable, metamorphic, and evolutionary, constantly conveying new levels of information.” For Wines, built, natural, and social contexts are in perpetual dialogue. Wines, president and co-founder of the architectural firm SITE, has used his design platform to transform the traditional hierarchy between architecture and nature, the tendency to “discard” vegetation as secondary to our built surroundings, proposing instead an assimilation of structure and environment. His work has proven so influential within the architecture community that in 2013 Wines was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement award from the Cooper-Hewitt as part of their National Design Awards program. 1932), however, has been grappling with these questions since the early 1970s. With the inception of LEED certification in 1998, and the advent of sustainable technologies such as solar panels, today’s urban designers are increasingly immersed in the conversation around sustainable design. “Sustainability,” “green,” “eco-friendly”: these terms have become bywords associated with the contemporary city. ![]()
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