The Age of the Restless Machines (Ekers, 2020)
Where on Earth can you find Woodland? (Ekers, 2020)
London Above Ground (Ekers, 2020)
SUBTOPIA: THE AGE OF THE RESTLESS MACHINES
Ian Nairn (1956:365) wrote not of suburbia but a ‘creeping mildew […] that circumscribes all of our towns’—a ‘subtopia’. Nairn's anger and cynicism is echoed in a series of collages, which were the departure point for an interpretative phenomenological description of the suburban paradigm. Collage necessarily abstracts from the reality of site by combining source material from an unrelated source (here, back issues of the Architectural Review). It is nonetheless a fluid and poetic means of expression that helped to elucidate phenomena and concretise the apparent failure of suburbia posited by the author.
Excerpts from: The Essence of Landscape: A Phenomenology of Suburbia
Advanced Landscape Architecture Design Studio // MA Landscape Architecture
School of Sustainable Environments and Design // Writtle University College (May 2020)
References: Nairn, I (1956) Outrage. London: Architectural Press.
