Author: blanchecrossley
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REVIEW: Bernard Tschumi; The Manhattan Transcripts
University of Greenwich MA Landscape Architecture student, Blanche Crossley, reviews Tschumi’s The Manhattan Transcripts. Bernard Tschumi’s The Manhattan Transcripts are a collection of architectural drawings that do not act as a completed proposal. They hang between reality and fantasy. Tschumi uses the transcripts to make sense of an architectural reality that incorporates sequences, movement and functionality. […]
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Richard Long; measuring the environment through space, time and physicality
Richard Long creates environmental art by having physical engagement with the landscape, without it being of a particularly intrusive nature. Long’s work appears in several different forms from mud paintings within a gallery space to marking in the landscape. There is a psycho-geographic connotation to his work as he records spontaneous interactions with the landscape […]
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Bourke’s emotive communication with the landscape
‘The Springing of George Blake’ by Sean Bourke graphically details preparations for the escape of George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Blake was a KGB double agent who in 1964 was given a 42-year sentence, each year a symbol of every British spy he betrayed, and led to his or her death. The event was […]
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