Moma Roof Garden Ken Smith

Ken smith the landscape architect behind moma s audacious artificial rooftop brings his penchant for whimsy and irony to a new exhibit at the knowlton banvard gallery.

Moma roof garden ken smith. Full text of ken smith landscape architects urban projects a source book in landscape architecture source books in landscape a j5e9 jn4 see other formats. The new roof garden on top of the taniguchi building at the museum of modern art in new york marks a contemporary addition to the landscape spaces at the museum which also include the modern sculpture garden designed by philip johnson and zion. 1271 avenue of the americas. Ken smith landscape architect new york ny.

Moma roof garden by ken smith moma all about plants and planters artificial landscaping on roof moma roof top garden flatpack bakers idolza. The museum of modern art roof garden new york ny. Orange county great park. Smith accomplished the goal of creating lightweight faux garden at moma plastic rocks styrofoam edging phony boxwood 185 crushed recycled rocks 7 tons crushed glass 4 tons rubber mulch 560 artificial boxwoods it is visible only to people who live above the museum of modern art no visitors allowed he told us he based the garden layout on a camouflage pattern he likened modern.

See the roof below this garden is over the museum s new sixth floor gallery space. Orange county great park. When the museum of modern art commissioned ken smith to design two roof gardens on the sixth floor of the expanded museum designed by yoshio taniguchi the challenge was in the restrictions. Never to be accessible to the general public the 17 400 square foot garden sitting six floors above street level was destined to function more as one of the museum s collected works of modern and contemporary art than as an inhabitable landscape.

Moma roof top garden flatpack bakers idolza model 4. The design of the roof garden appropriates the visual vocabulary of military camouflage to create a garden that simultaneously disguises the roof while making it highly visible. Orange county great park. Ken smith is a fantastic landscape architect.

In 2002 moma curator peter reed asked ken smith to propose an imaginative roofscape installation for the new gallery addition by architect yoshio taniguchi. But everybody makes mistakes. Winner of 8 asla. All about plants and planters artificial landscaping on roof model 5.

Ken smith designed this art oriented roof garden for the new taniguchi designed addition to the museum.