Creative Nature 创意自然

Overview:
The USC American Academy in China (AAC) has partnered with the municipal government of Xi’an and ten international graduate programs in landscape architecture to transform 10,000 square meters of land into permanent garden space.

Each of the 10 schools have been granted a parcel of land, and the resulting landscape designs, showcased this July at our “Creative Nature” exhibition in Shanghai will later be fully implemented as part of the 2011 World Horticultural Exposition in Xi’an.

In addition, Creative Nature also features the work of professional landscape architects for the 2011 Xi’an World Horticultural Exposition. Wang Xiangrong, professor of the School of Landscape Architecture of Beijing Forestry University and chief editor of Landscape Architecture, curated the work of nine internationally acclaimed designers on a 9000-square-meter site.

The exhibition will bring together landscape designs from programs all over the world, including:

Xi’an World University Park

• Architectural Association School of Architecture – Reflects, Thickened Waterfront
• Columbia University – Eco_Plane
• Feng Chia University, Taiwan – Eco Time
• Hong Kong University – Wind Poem
• Peking University – The Net
• Universidad Torcuato De Tella, Argentina – Pampa Traces
• University of California at Berkeley – Garden of Forking Paths
• University of Southern California – Sky Garden
• University of St. Joseph — Nature in Landscape Urban Interference
• University of Toronto – Scent Garden

Master Landscape Architect Garden

• Labyrinth in the Mountain – Benedetta Tagliabue, EMBT, Barcelona, Spain
• Botanist Garden – Bridget Baines, Gross Max, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Passages – Vladimir Sitta, Terragram, Surry Hills, Australia
• The Big Dig – Martin Cano, Topotek1, Hamburg, Germany
• Spot 5 – Catherine Mosbach, Mosbach Paysagistes, Paris, France
• Maze Garden – Martha Schwartz, Martha Schwartz Partners, Cambridge, USA
• The Garden of 10,000 Bridges – Adriaan Geuze, West 8, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• The Mud Garden – Stig L. Andersson, SLA, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Four Boxes Garden – Wang Xiangrong, Atelier DYJG, Beijing, China