The High Line, New York: Objet Trouve and Form as Provocation
Dr Raymond Lucas, Manchester School of Architecture
Thursday 29th November, 5.30. MMU Business School, G.27
The purpose of the Highline is to offer opportunities. To enable
wandering and musing, to escape functionalism and allow people to make
what they will of the city, experiencing the height from the ground,
appropriating industrial space, controlled and closed off to most. The
High Line is a provocation, a pure form suddenly made available to the
everyday experience of the New Yorker. This is Architecture, Landscape,
and Urbanism Trouvé as in the manner of Duchamp’s Objet Trouvé, but the
key here is the form and its celebration.
The New York Highline has very quickly become that rare thing, a piece of landscape architecture which transcends its professional field and community context to become a media phenomenon and new icon. Ray Lucas will consider the reasons for the global impact of this Highline and explore themes of relevance to contemporary urban space-making through the particular prism of this project.
The New York Highline has very quickly become that rare thing, a piece of landscape architecture which transcends its professional field and community context to become a media phenomenon and new icon. Ray Lucas will consider the reasons for the global impact of this Highline and explore themes of relevance to contemporary urban space-making through the particular prism of this project.
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