A New Guilded Age: From Gilded Landscapes to Ecological Guilds

This project explores how to respond to historically significant landscapes in the face of dramatic and overwhelming environmental changes like sea level rise. The rules that govern the design of landscapes in the past are placed against the current and future conditions in order to understand the need to expand historical interpretations and accommodate ecological variables. An important Gilded era garden in Rhode Island is used to investigate and apply real world concepts, regulations and related variables that would arise in a typical investigation. The conclusions reveals the design opportunities afforded by the chaos generated through sea level rise and how this could work towards integrating eco-logical communities.

Volume Editors
Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds, Mo Zell, Nikole Bouchard & Whitney Moon

ISBN
978-1-944214-28-9