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An architectural rendering that hints at the variety of materials and textures on display in Stock-Pile.
in this 10th anniversary year, Dean Barbara J. Grosz approached Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, for ideas. Mostafavi recommended that Grosz consult Chris Reed, the principal and founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, a Boston-based strategic design and planning practice. Reed, who is also a design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, conceived Stock-Pile.
TONY RINALDO
A small garden in Radcliffe Yard, used as a staging area and parking lot through three Radcliffe Institute building renovations, is now home to an installation called StockPile. Twelve conical piles of stone, aggregate, sand, and soil—two planted with ferns—are arranged on a north-south grid. Over time, the piles, which are subject to the elements, will gently degrade. They already show evidence of the weather, passing dogs, and adventurous children. Eager to give the area a stronger “sense of place”
STOSS LANDSAPE URBANISM
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