UT School of Landscape Architecture

Here is a quick sneak-peak into one of the final projects from Andrew Madl’s LAR 555: “Scoring the End Reimagined" studio. Don’t miss out on SoLA’s final review presentations this week located within the Art & Architecture Building. Wednesday, November 20th: -LAR 555: “Scoring the End Reimagined” taught by Andrew Madl from 8:20am-12:30am in room 103B -LAR 555: “Chronotopes” taught by Chad Manley from 1:30pm-6:30pm in room 103A Thursday, November 21rst: -LAR 553: “Crafting Appalachia” taught by Faye Nixon from 8:20am-12:20am in room 103A -LAR 551: “Dismantling Landscape” taught by Gale Fulton & Scottie McDaniel from 1:30pm-6:30pm in room 103A

Our first-year Design Communication I students recently completed the pin-up for their assignment “Strange Views.” Students created digital models of parks by collaging elements from precedent landscape projects and then produced rendered vignettes of their parks from the perspectives of sessile objects, such as a security camera or a plant. Intended to strengthen their representational skills with tools like Rhino, Illustrator, and Photoshop, students were encouraged to work experimentally.

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Earlier this month, UT School of Landscape Architecture's Assistant Professor Andrew Madl published “The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the U.S. Nuclear Highway,” which investigates alternative realities in which nuclear project proposals by the U.S. government, that were not carried out, are implemented. Through a graphic novel format, Madl not only sheds light on these charged landscapes but also offers design strategies for their future resilience and adaptation. Catch glimpses of “The Nuclear Chronicles” at the college's Gay Street exhibition window or through his forthcoming CGI short-film, “The Nuclear Chronicles: Cultivated Aftermath.” Read more: bit.ly/40kHoke #utkarchdesign #utklandscapearchitecture #speculativelandscape #publication

Since returning from their seven-day trip throughout Appalachia, our second year’s “Crafting Appalachia” studio, taught by Faye Nixon, has been diving deeper into the region through the process of research and mapping. Each student is exploring the region in detail—creating maps, perspectives, sections, and site designs centered on their chosen research topics. Students had the opportunity to present their work for student and faculty feedback last Wednesday as final reviews approach next week.

LAR 555, Scoring the End Reimagined: Projecting the Modification of Memphis in the Age of Climate Disaster taught by Andrew Madl, seeks to address projected climate conditions for the city of Memphis, TN. Scenario-based design proposals investigate infrastructural technologies that intersect with current and future temperature, precipitation, hydrologic, and seismic events. Multiple scales, territory (the River and New Madrid Seismic Zone), city, and site (underutilized/vacant land), are addressed through speculation as a means to evaluate desirable and undesirable futures. The work of the studio intends to navigate implementation of engineered infrastructures into the urban fabric of Memphis by engaging with social, cultural, economic, and ecological systems.

With final review week approaching, our students are ramping up with production, collaboration, and desk crits in a push to complete their final projects. Each studio is working at a unique range of scales with a variety of techniques including digital mapping and modeling, collage, CNC routing, and more.

The first-year students recently completed the pin-up for their second project for their LAR 551 “Dismantling Landscape” studio. The project, titled “Exploiting Process”, focuses on expanding their conception of how form can be generated in landscape architectural design. Students continued their explorations in drawing and making by working in digital and analogue mediums rapidly, casually, and indiscriminately.

The Wormfarm Institute's tenth iteration of the Farm/Art DTOUR featured a 12 foot tall deer blind by University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Assistant Professor Scottie McDaniels and Associate Professor Marshall Prado. The 10 day, 50-mile exhibition featured 12 land-scale works displayed on farmlands in Sauk County, Wisconsin. The installation, titled "Rural Construct," blends Prado's use of modern technology with McDaniel's research into rural artifacts, creating a vibrant installation that reimagines the landscape. Read more about "Rural Construct": bit.ly/4ffjLh1. Read more about the exhibition, which caught the attention of The New York Times earlier this week: nyti.ms/3BUR0r.

Don't miss professor Andrew Madl's Nuclear Chronicle's exhibit that will be up until early November. Exhibit address: 502 S Gay St Knoxville, TN 37902 The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the U.S. Nuclear Highway leverages fictional design narratives as devices for discussing the impact of nuclear technology within the territory of the western United States. Storytelling registers design research in a graphic novel format while promoting the use of such a method to provide insight into speculative design that informs and aids in approaching the contemporary territorial issues that landscape architecture seeks to address. The conflicts and controversies surrounding the landscapes of the “Nuclear Highway” system of the United States are made visible through alternative realities in which projects actually proposed by the U.S. government that were not carried out are implemented. The narratives provide perspectives from both the landscape and its occupants on how such dramatic infrastructures and policies, if implemented, would play out. Novel economies, infrastructures, and technologies are generated to cope with and adapt to the newly defined realities of the post-atomic age. The work intends to address methods of presenting design research that move beyond written and verbally dominated modes into spatial formats. The Nuclear Highway—through its scales, ecologies, economies, technologies, and geographies—is leveraged to legitimize speculative design and storytelling as modes of operation for furthering research and intervention in the field of landscape architecture. Exhibited are excerpted images and research artifacts from the recently completed book project, The Nuclear Chronicles, published through Applied Research and Design (AR+D). The exhibit provides further representation of the design research beyond the book through a multimedia format that includes animated sequences and digitally fabricated models. This extension of the published work was funded through a University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Architecture and Design Seed Award. Photo Credits: Andrew Madl