EXH 003         Environment[al]         Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten, curated by Herwig Baumgartner and Marcelyn Gow                2018

Header image: SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles 
© Michal Gzerwonka, SCI Arc
Text: Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten | www.landscapemodellandscape.com

For the Sci Arc exhibition Environment[al], Vogt Landscape Architects have planned an all-encompassing space where different works by the participating architects (Estudio Carme Pinós, Gilles Retsin, Izaskun Chinchilla Architects, Enric Ruiz Geli and Coop Himmelb(l)au) will be articulated around an artificial landscape where different elements articulate and revitalize the history of water in Los Angeles.

The arrangements and Elements are found not on eye-level but inside the ground itself, forcing the viewer to look down and into the earth for questions and answers. The different elements found in the ground correspond to the major players in the growth of the city and their relationship to water, while the landscape itself alludes to another site, and the origin of a turn of the century ecological disaster as well as the source of water from the city: The Owens Valley. Simultaneously, a light horizon stretches along the space at eye level as a blinding reminder of the dan- gers and possibilities implicit in the landscape which we fail to see.

This new setting or parallel ecology seeks to bring together these different elements (oil, water, light, vegetation and soil) to construct, through these, a new ecology based on a new concept of nature; one where the future of coexistence is based on man‘s acknowledgement of an impending environmental collapse.

Exhibition model © Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten

All following images © Michal Gzerwonka, SCI Arc

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