Not exact matches
Another of Walker's
students was Arthur Watson, now president of the Royal Scottish Academy; in the introduction to Downie's exhibition catalogue for her 2013 show Walk Through Resonant Landscape, the consequence of her
Chinese residency and travels, Watson observes the contribution made by Walker to her
students» ability to perceive and explore the unique landscape of Scotland and for the primacy of drawing: «With a base on the island of Tiree, [Frances Walker] ranged across the West Coast and Western Isles interrogating the coastal margins — the rhythm of pebbles across a storm beach or the fractured
architecture of a rocky foreshore, meticulously recorded through a vocabulary of precise but unforgiving ink lines.»
A former biology
student who went to Harvard for grad school in landscape
architecture, Schneider has in the past worked for Pierre Hugyhe and a kindred sensibility reveals itself in his works at Paramount Ranch: two vitrines filled with soil, artificial plants, and sinister red neon signs bearing the
Chinese characters for diseases, one of them rabies and the other the black plague.
From sailors and office workers, to drug addicts and runaways,
chinese artists and
students, and now to glamorous hotel guests, the «pizza box» building in NY's Chelsea is another piece of
architecture that has learnt to adapt well to its users.