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The Playgrounds of Previ, Aldo van Eyck, Lima Peru, 1974
photo by nicolas hunkeler, via digitalarchitecturalpapers"The site of the PREVI international architecture competition was located some kilometres north of the built border of Lima in the 1960s...The...
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Sol Lewitt - Playground maker?
Sol Lewitt, Cubic Construction, 1971 image by MoMA via archpaperAnd having seen the playground climber in Previ, I'll leave you to your own conclusions about the inspiration of conceptual artist Sol...
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The Climbing Towers of Florian Aigner
sourcesource:sourcesourceI've been thinking about the climbing frames of Florian Aigner, too, which are a sort of distortion of the tidy traditional boxes below. At London for Play I talked about the...
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Play Notes (and a Lozziwurm) for your March 9 2013 weekend
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA sends news of their upcoming focus on play for the 2013 Carnegie International, for which they have installed a 'Lozziwurm' by Swiss artist Yvan Pestalozzi,...
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Sway'd by Daniel Lymann and New Materials on the Playground
Playground innovation in the 1960s and 1970s was driven in part by the availability of new materials that could be used to make new forms...the Lozziwurm, for example, being a play form that was...
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Learn-Move-Play-Ground, Susanne Hofman Architekten and Baupiloten, Cairo...
Ingredients:2 schools (El Khods in Ard El Lewa and Shoubra)25 students from Egypt11 students from Germany9 cmq of bricks12 precompressed concrete tubes25 trees65 children12 days of planning,...
View ArticleSlides of Gothenburg, Sweden
Fish slide at the Gothenburg Horticultural Society Playground Tunnel slide at Plitka Park, which is also home to the Monstrum whale playground Creative, localized slides in Gothenburg, Sweden via...
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Play Notes (to be an occasional weekend-ish feature of Playscapes)
The Child and Nature Network is looking for a new executive director... if you’re passionate about nature-based play, this might be a great fit for you! The lovely folks at Thoughtbarn have been...
View ArticleThe Playgrounds of Previ, Aldo van Eyck, Lima Peru, 1974
photo by nicolas hunkeler, via digitalarchitecturalpapers ““The site of the PREVI international architecture competition was located some kilometres north of the built border of Lima in the 1960s…The...
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Sol Lewitt – Playground maker?
Sol Lewitt, Cubic Construction, 1971 image by MoMA via archpaper And having seen the playground climber in Previ, I’ll leave you to your own conclusions about the inspiration of conceptual artist Sol...
View ArticleThe Climbing Towers of Florian Aigner
source source: source source I’ve been thinking about the climbing frames of Florian Aigner, too, which are a sort of distortion of the tidy traditional boxes below. At London for Play I talked...
View ArticlePlay Notes (and a Lozziwurm) for your March 9 2013 weekend
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA sends news of their upcoming focus on play for the 2013 Carnegie International, for which they have installed a ‘Lozziwurm‘ by Swiss artist Yvan...
View ArticleSway’d by Daniel Lymann and New Materials on the Playground
Playground innovation in the 1960s and 1970s was driven in part by the availability of new materials that could be used to make new forms…the Lozziwurm, for example, being a play form that was simply...
View ArticleLearn-Move-Play-Ground, Susanne Hofman Architekten and Baupiloten, Cairo...
Ingredients: 2 schools (El Khods in Ard El Lewa and Shoubra) 25 students from Egypt 11 students from Germany 9 cmq of bricks 12 precompressed concrete tubes 25 trees 65 children 12 days of planning,...
View ArticleWelcome to the new home of Playscapes!
Well, I feel like I’m inviting you over while I’m still painting the walls and moving the furniture. Aldo van Eyck’s birthday was Saturday the 16th, and usually this is a Very Big Deal here on the...
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SeeSaw Playground, Korea, 1931
Beautiful vintage photo from National Geographic, by W. Robert Moore, of play in Korean c. 1931. We have come to think of a seesaw as something to sit on. But this form, seen not just in the Orient...
View ArticleThe House on a Hill playscape: lessons from the Hornbach Playground, Germany,...
I’ve long admired this small-town playground by German landscape architect Stefan Laport for the lessons it holds for small playgrounds (backyards, schools, churches) everywhere. It’s a simple...
View ArticleSpielplatz vs. Playground
One of the comments about the “House on a Hill” playscape from Germany was that it didn’t meet US safety standards. Which of course is true, and points to the dramatically different perspective on...
View ArticleTalking About Play Grounds
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View ArticleThe Playgrounds of Previ, Aldo van Eyck, Lima Peru, 1974
photo by nicolas hunkeler, via digitalarchitecturalpapers ““The site of the PREVI international architecture competition was located some kilometres north of the built border of Lima in the 1960s…The...
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