This talk will explore the interdisciplinary design partnership between a landscape architect and an architect through a series of recent projects and ongoing research. The approach to design problems is through exploring the work from the vantage points of the two disciplines, resulting in design solutions that strive to disintegrate the subject-object relationship conventionally established between Landscape + Building, the figure + ground. The work will be explored through three lenses of Unfamiliar Optics, Figural Operations, and Identity Oppositions.

Jennifer Birkeland and Jonathan A. Scelsa are the Mark Hampton Rome Prize Fellows in Design at the American Academy in Rome. Birkeland and Scelsa are partners of the New York–based architecture and landscape design practice of op.AL. Scelsa is assistant professor of architectural design and technology at Pratt Institute, and Birkeland is visiting assistant professor of landscape architecture at Pennsylvania State University.

The event will be held in English. You can watch it at https://livestream.com/aarome.