Ken Smith, Landscape as Cultural Criticism
In the work of Ken Smith, landscape architecture is a reinvigorated three-dimensional art form. Smith is devoted both to modern landscape aesthetics—as seen in projects by American landscape architects Dan Kiley (1912–2004), Paul Friedberg (b. 1931), and
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