Botanical City

prof. Maria Villalobos’ Lecture: Journey Toward the Tropical Botanical City. Monday 02.11 from 2 to 4 PM. Sustainable Architecture Studio Contin_Pandolfi https...://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/antonella.contin Maria Villalobos is an Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Coordinator of the third year of the Master on Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. She obtained her PhD at the School of Landscape Architecture of Versailles, France, delivering her dissertation on the Botanical Garden of Roberto Burle Marx: a creative process for the regeneration of urban landscapes. In 2017, she won the first prize in the Venezuelan Architecture Biennial for the Rehabilitation of the Botanical Garden of Maracaibo. It was the first time that a Landscape Architecture entry and women were granted this award. She holds a Master in Design Studies from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she received the Annual Award for Excellence in Housing Design in 2004. From 2005 to 2009 Villalobos worked for the recovery of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 at New York Department of City Planning. She joined Arup NYC to develop world-class public projects in New York, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro. In 2000, Villalobos was part of a team from the Urban Design program of Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas that won the highest award in the Biennale for the Rehabilitation of Littoral Central, the Caribbean Coastline of Caracas, considered one of the first post-disaster green infrastructure recovery plans proposed for the Latin-American region. In 2015 Villalobos founded the organization Botanical City to call attention on the preservation of endangered tropical cultural landscapes, the restoration of the tropical dry forests, and the development performative research methods. Villalobos focuses on applied-research studios and projects, addressing environmental and social challenges of the tropical cities. The projects focus mainly on threatened and devastated urban landscapes and the search for innovative approaches that are capable of overcoming hardships by observing culture and nature beyond differences. During her lecture Maria Villalobos will discuss a prospective method: The Botanical Metropolitan Framework of Learning. She explores the relationship between the ancestral pedagogical legacy of the metropolitan cultural landscape and its botanical richness. Therefore, instead of considering historically significant landscapes as artefacts fixed in time and space, the quest shifts towards the processes that can sustain a transformative programmatic, biologic, and aesthetic equilibrium in the long term. She reflects on how a hypothetical botanical metropolitan framework would transform not only what you do, but also how you do it. We will learn as the landscape grows and changes itself in the process of becoming. She also will present her experience working in New York Waterfront Transformation, post-Sandy and overall waterfront urban design policy transformation. She will also include her new research for Puerto Rico’s waterfront and Tropical Dry Forest.

Please join us for Everyday Ecologies @CUNY On Nov 5th our Co-Founder M. Villalobos will be in the panel. These are the links for each talk.... 10.22 registration link: https://ccny.zoom.us//register/tJcpdemsrDstG93kM36zC6Szl7S 10.29 registration link: https://ccny.zoom.us//register/tJArcuCprzMoGtc-oIAblTQVG19 11.05 registration link: https://ccny.zoom.us//register/tJArcOmurzwiG9Vm8iBe-dVhB7c 11.12 registration link: https://ccny.zoom.us//register/tJMtceiqqTIjG9WZtrdnjJoj3kt https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu//fall-2020-lecture-series-every/

Compartimos este texto de José Tabacow, en el cual relata sus experiencias en el diseño y ejecución de lo que él describe como "su trabajo más importante": el Jardín Botánico de Maracaibo. Jardim Botânico de Maracaibo Projetando em escala 1:1 Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1981... [Roberto Burle Marx, Haruyoshi Ono e José Tabacow] Texto de José Tabacow https://www.linkedin.com//urn:li:activity:671176620607390/

¡Viva Maracaibo Viva! ¡Viva Altagracia Viva! ¡Viva el Lago Vivo! El 8 de septiembre de 1529, se registra como la fecha fundacional de Maracaibo y Los Puertos de Altagracia. En realidad, esos paisajes que viven por el Lago, tejidos por las cañadas, cuidada por los manglares y las garzas, alimentados por los bosques nativos y los seres del lago, son mucho más antiguos y guardan en sus vidas secretos ancestrales. Hoy 8 de septiembre de 2020, celebremos entonces no un día, sino e...Continue reading

Hoy 4 de agosto celebramos la vida y lecciones del maestro #RobertoBurleMarx (1909-1994). Celebramos "la contribución pedagógica y epistemológica en la evolución de la profesión paisajística como proceso, en la cual, el arte y la ciencia operan sin oposiciones. Para Burle Marx, la misión social del paisajista tiene ese lado pedagógico de comunicar a la multitud el sentimiento de aprecio y comprensión de los valores de la naturaleza a través del contacto con el jardín y con ...el parque Burle Marx, abogaba por la relación entre la construcción del paisaje y el ejercicio de la paciencia didáctica". Como cada día con el constante trabajo, con los mejores aliados y amigos, celebramos haciendo. "La celebración del legado de Burle Marx, es un ejercicio diario; un compromiso continuo, motivado por la confianza inspirada por el maestro de que quien opera con amor, pasión y perseverancia puede llegar a resultados positivos. Ese camino de perseverancia ha regalado a quienes escriben verdaderas fiestas, sin fechas y sin horarios, como las tonadas llaneras que el bosque seco tropical de Venezuela inspira". Para ver el texto completo: Enseñanza viva de Burle Marx (Urbina-Villalobos, 2020) publicado en la revista Revista Internacional de arquitectura y diseño Arquine https://www.arquine.com/ensenanza-viva-de-burle-marx/