诗意过程

编者按：四年本科学习，毕业回顾之际，作者用诗化的语言和他的图画，展示了自己的风景园林世界：一个根植文学、个性的、感性的个人世界。这一个自我天地又将如何延展下去？正如作者所说：“期待生活的下一章节，无论那是什么。”，我们由衷的祝福他。

1、贝尔蒙特，马萨诸塞州

坐落于波士顿的一个小镇，我的家乡……

2、我的故事从何而起？

从贝尔蒙特到康乃尔，

这大约是它开始的地方，

大约是我发觉风景园林比机械工程有趣的时候。

3、灵感之记忆唤醒了我

我被大千世界的小小细节和瞬息片刻所启发，他们让我停下脚步，暗问“为什么不”？

4、发现问题，运用创意

5、Southworks，芝加哥，伊利诺伊州

风景园林课程4010：城市设计，2009年秋

重新规划面积约有545公顷的前美钢铁制造场所，需要对场地周边社区的系统有充分了解，微观资源网络亦然。

在规划该场地时，一个新的网络格局出现：交通层级、绿色空间、邻近的土地利用类型的关系显现出来。

绿色基础设施是所规划的洪水管理运用的重要一环。在强制性海岸缓冲区，绿色设施被充分运，使得海岸缓冲区成为了一个可用性很强的公共滨水区。

6、Southworks，芝加哥，伊利诺伊州

风景园林课程4010：城市设计，2009年秋

7、Pdc 实习，波茨维尔，宾夕法尼亚州

2009年夏

在10周的“波茨维尔实习”中，我们在市政官员、社区组织和整个社区的共同协力下，完成了这个设计建造项目，在61号公路紧邻的一块弹丸之地上，建造了一个可用的公园空间。

建造过程中，基于市政维护的考虑，材料的选用以及植物配置使得场地的“低维护”成为可能。同时，该设计还担负了通向建筑和城市本身视觉廊道的观景作用。在场地初步设想和种植规划形成后，志愿者们在实施阶段给予很多支持，使得项目团队在公园建设上进展显著。

8、罗马艺术设计课，罗马，意大利

艺术课4000：罗马设计课，2009年春

三件在康乃尔罗马设计课中完成的艺术创作。

谜之主题：源于对“旅游”的即时反应，这个木雕刻画了场所如何成为一个更大地理空间范围内的一部分并融合其中。拼图中缺失的方块是未经历过的经验；灰阶文字组成一首诗，串联了在罗马设计课期间所游览的各个地方。

八行诗：为罗马层积丰富和不断累加的历史所启发，创作了这个喷绘在木板上的八行诗。

三联木炭画：在绘画课完成，这三个木炭画展示了相似的空间营造和植物配置。作画的过程不是有意使其成为三联画，但结果以这样的方式展现并引发思考。

9、保持好奇之心，写作、摄影、艺术

10、四年之想

当你有所寻求时，你会对你所发现之物啧啧称奇

当我在风景园林的世界里流连忘返时，我发觉自己除此之外别无所爱

她让我对周围更加好奇

让我从一个更加客观批判的视角对待世界

期待生活的下一章节，无论那是什么……

11、都市肖像（诗）

狂野之都，反自然的盛行，

沥青铺设的河流、钢筋蔓延的葡萄园，

一个永恒变动中的雨林；

摇钱树在恬静的果园里，随风飒动，

青翠的、简陋的、安静的，好似，

镀金的天使和镀银的圣人，歌唱着他们的天堂。

都市的追随者踯躅于浓烈的彩色印片中——

白色的夹克遮掩了不安的朱红衬衫，

在逼仄的热带丛林中，是简便的伪装；

怯懦的变色龙则在能容它之处寻找荫蔽。

怒放的花冠在金碧辉煌的殿堂中颂扬着蓝空——

嘈杂成为了一种色彩、一款风情，一个魔术；

震耳欲聋，欲得重生——

从黑土荒地中诞出，

活着但低声细语。

12、致谢

康乃尔LA的全体教员 | 谢谢你们给予学生的耐心及全心倾注。

让世界转动的人们 | Kris Flashive, Kristie Oplinger, April Kampney

我的临时教员 | Zack Boggs、Chris Hardy

我的同学 | 我的第二个家庭

我的家庭 | “真正”的家庭

所有人 | 谢谢你们

Matthew Sturz来自麻省波士顿地区，是康乃尔大学风景园林系的2010届本科毕业生。童年与自然乡野的亲密接触，成长年代经历了美国稳固的居住区景观的发展阶段，使得他对户外自然及绿色事业无比热爱。大学的学习释放了他的艺术一面，从而引领他走入风景园林专业。在自身的风景园林专业学习中，他的专业兴趣在于：在“最大化经济及社会效益，最小化负面的环境影响”前提下，重建都市空间；在学术及适宜居住尺度上，创造功能性、艺术性、交互性的环境。他的“诗意过程”，用文字与图像表述了其走向设计与风景园林的旅程。文中谈到了他的设计途径与对细节的关注，并与我们分享了自己的艺术和文学创作，所有这些都与风景园林以及他的个人生活密不可分。

Process and Poetry

His presentation “Process and Poetry” contains both graphic work and images illustrating his journey to design and toward landscape architecture. It discusses his approach to design projects and his detail-oriented perspective which informs his design work. He also shares samples of his artwork and poetry, both from his semester in Rome, Italy and outside projects – these are inspired by what he describes as “moments”, and capture the passion he brings to landscape architecture and to life.

1 Belmont, Massachusetts

The small Boston suburb I call home…

2 Where my story begins

From Belmont to Cornell

This is approximately where I decided that landscape architecture seemed more interesting than mechanical engineering…

3 Inspiration memory of magic awakens me.

I continue to be inspired by tiny details and moments in the world around me that make me pause and ask “why not?”

4 Define the problem ,applied creativity

5 Southworks | Chicago, Illinois

LA 4010: urban design studio, Fall 2009

Redeveloping the former US steel manufacturing site of 545 acres required an understanding of the systems at work in the adjacent neighborhood as well as the macroscopic resource networks into which the site is woven.

In planning the site, new networks emerged, such as transportation hierarchy, green space, and the relationships between adjacent land use typologies.

Green infrastructure was a key component of the proposed storm water management practice. It also expanded on the mandatory shoreline buffer zone and made it into usable public waterfront for trails and park space.

6 Southworks | Chicago, Illinois

LA 4010: urban design studio, Fall 2009

7 Pdc internship | Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Summer 2009

Working with city officials, community organizations, and the community at-large, this design/build project made usable park space of a parcel adjacent to rt. 61 in a ten week internship. Materials selection was consistent with the city’s interest that the site be low-maintenance, as were plantings.

Additionally, the design accounts for important view corridors, including the Extol building and the city itself. After drafting site and planting plans, volunteers assisted in the construction phase, enabling the team to make significant progress in getting the park built.

8 Rome art studio | Rome, Italy

ART 4000: Rome studio, Spring 2009

The following are selected art projects completed in the Cornell-in-Rome studio.

Puzzle motif: originally in response to a prompt to respond to “tourism”, this wood carving represents how places are part of a larger geographic context and interrelated. Missing pieces are unformed experiences. The text grayscale is original poetry about the places visited during the Rome studio.

Layered poetry: inspired by the layers and accretion of history in Rome, this is an 8 line poem painted on wood about opaque layers of history obscuring the rest of the story.

Charcoal triptych: composed during drawing class, these three pieces exhibit similar construction of space and treatment of vegetation. They were not originally intended as a triptych, but emerged as one upon further examination.

9 Carrying on curiosity | writing, photography and art

10 Brief thoughts on 4 years here

Amazing what you can find when you’re not looking for it…

Excited for the next chapter, whatever that may be…

Made me look more critically at the world around me

Made me a more curious person

Since I stumbled upon landscape architecture, I have never seriously considered doing anything else.

11 Portrait of an Urbanite

Cityscape wild, prevailing force-of-nature,

Asphalt rivers and rebar vines,

A rainforest in constant flux.

Pastoral orchards of money-trees rustle softly,

Verdant and vile, yet tranquil, as

Gilded-leaf angels and silver saints sing of paradise.

Citizen-faithful dwells in Technicolor –

White jackets conceal vibrant vermilion shirts,

Convenient camouflage in constrictive tropical jungle.

Chameleon cowards bask in whatever shade suits them.

Blossoms proclaim cerulean from golden centers –

Noise is color is beauty is magic.

Bellow deafening to become alive –

Break from black-soil barrens,

Living but a whisper.

12 Acknowledgements

The L.A. Faculty | for your patience and dedication to the students

My classmates [adopted family]

Interim faculty | Zach Boggs and Chris Hardy

My [real] family

The people that make the world go around | Kris Flahive, Kristie Oplinger, April Kampney

All of you | thank you very much

Matthew Sturz is a 2010 graduate of the Cornell University Landscape Architecture program. Originally from the Boston area, early interaction with nature and exposure to well-defined residential landscape improvement influenced his interest in being outdoors and instilled a love for all things green. The college search process unearthed his artistic side, leading to his discovery of landscape architecture as a college major, a profession, and an industry.

Within landscape architecture, his interest is in restructuring urban spaces to maximize economic and social value while minimizing environmental impacts of development. Additionally, he is interested in creating functional, aesthetic, and interactive environments at both academic and residential scales, retaining a love for the type of work that led him to landscape architecture to begin with.