Mary Scipioni, of Brighton, is a landscape architect who has lived and worked in New York City, Milan and New England before returning to her native Rochester. She’ll be talking about many aspects of landscape, including design and trends, as well as environmental issues that are influenced by the way we develop land and build communities. Her website can be found at pebble-stream.com
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The Robie House in Oak Park (Chicago) is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest Prairie Style masterpieces. It embodies a lesson about responding to the landscape, and creating an edge that comes right up to legal boundaries. Rather than setting back, this house lunges forward, by use of parapets, reducing its verticality by visually slicing each story in half. The body of the house respects the setbacks, and the walls are treated as part of the architecture. The quest for perfection even led Wright to have the vertical lines of mortar tinted to match the bricks!
Mary Scipioni, of Brighton, is a landscape architect who has lived and worked in New York City, Milan and New England before returning to her native Rochester. She’ll be talking about many aspects of landscape, including design and trends, as well as environmental issues that are influenced by the way we develop land and build communities. Her website can be found at pebble-stream.com
