It was at that fateful moment that he told me I would get an occupational deferment if I was teaching at the university level the army would back off.
I declined, however, saying the army was after me, and that once I had my degrees, I was off to Scandinavia. That would never happen today, of course. There were no searches, no submissions of materials, no faculty discussions-just the offer. In fact, he had heard about what I was doing, appreciated my efforts, and offered me a tenure-track teaching position. Although I feared he was going to tell me to back off and let the professors do the teaching, the reason for his summons was just the opposite. Īnyway, as the year came to an end, soon before I thought that I would soon be off to Sweden, the head of the department called me to his office. Looking back, I have to admit that these efforts were probably more about showing off than any expression of altruism. I “taught” them drawing, critiqued their designs, and regaled them about my architect heroes. In addition to tending to these various interests, I had been helping a handful of friends in the graduate program, none of whom had a background in architecture or design. As a result, I got a second master’s in design, but that was more or less by accident. My real interests were, and still are, in designing and making, so I also took courses in ceramics and worked in the glass studio for the entire year. MT_The master’s program at Berkeley at that time was all about design methods and sociology, subjects for which I then had absolutely no sympathy.
I have many Berkeley faculty and alumni to thank for half my library!! With such an incredible lineage, I’d love to get a sense of the program over your time there. I thought I would stay for a year and then head to Sweden, where my Finnish girlfriend was already working, and where they were granting asylum to Americans.ĮV _Do you mind telling me a bit more about your experience at Berkeley? It’s a school, as you know, that has a long-standing history with architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. Although accepted at all of them, for various reasons I selected the University of California, Berkeley, primarily because I had never been to the West Coast. As the Vietnam War was raging-a war for which I had no sympathy-to qualify for a deferment I applied to several graduate schools. It also exposed me to a far broader view of art and design, and the artists and architects who made them. That year in Finland was a pivotal one for me, which challenged me to deal with having no one telling me what to do and when to do it, while living in a foreign language I didn’t understand. Although the grant was ostensibly for graduate studies in architecture at the new Alvar Aalto-designed Otaniemi campus of the Helsinki University of Technology outside Helsinki, I also worked in the ceramics studio of the art school, which then shared the same building as the Atenium art museum in the city center. I really didn’t like Florida very much, especially the heat and humidity, and after graduation, I was fortunate in receiving a Fulbright fellowship that allowed me to spend a year in Finland.
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I was born in New York City but spent my high school years in the Miami area before studying at the University of Florida, where I received a professional undergraduate degree in architecture. MT_Thank you for your interest in my work, Erick. But before we get deeper into our chat, do you mind sharing a little information about yourself and your history, for those who might not know you? Anne Whiston Spirn once described landscape as “.a language derived from the core activity of landscape architecture: artfully shaping, from garden to region, to fulfill function and express meaning.” As such, landscape architecture is a particularly important cultural product and Spacing Vancouver Editor-in-Chief Erick Villagomez recently had the chance to chat with prolific writer on modern landscape architecture Marc Treib to talk about modern landscape architecture, how he started writing, and his recent experience with Canadian works.ĮV _Thank you for chatting with me, Marc…this has been a long time coming.
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