Gavin Keeney, MLA
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Gavin Keeney, MLA
/S/O(MA) / LANY / AGENCE 'X'
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GK / AGENCE 'X'Gavin Keeney is a self-styled aesthetician and teaches occasionally in Architecture schools in the United States and abroad. He has written and lectured extensively on the ‘divine’ intersection of the Arts, foremost Architecture and Fine Art, and the return to Philosophy and Metaphysics as the return of the proverbial repressed. As an avowed anti-modernist, his scope is the promiscuous undercurrents in Representation Itself (its ‘rhizosphere’, if you wish), from antiquity to the Present-Present (‘Now’), inclusive of works of a high-modernist sensibility insofar as they contain an irrepressible Something Else (depth beyond measure, sign and trace of the ‘catastrophe’/ the catastrophic). PRECIS / EN PASSANT THUS, Supplements to the Same (PDFs/RTFs) ... And/or, Milieu & Anti-Milieu (Anti-Journal) ... "The simplest, most elementary mark, the cross, was interpreted by Mondrian in a mystical sense before Le Corbusier saw in it, minus by minus, the sign of positivity; this mark brings together the masculine and feminine elements in the coitus of vertical and horizontal." --Hubert Damisch, "Toward a Tomb for Adolf Loos", Grey Room 01 (Fall 2000) Contact / For a printable version of this document, plus contact details, cliquez ici (RTF) ... EDUCATION / HONORS 1/ CORNELL UNIVERSITY - 1988-93, Master of Landscape Architecture (1993), Robert James Eidlitz Travel Fellowship (1993), Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (1992), Teaching Assistantships (History of American Landscape Architecture, and Spatial Design & Aesthetics), New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects Student Merit Award (1991) / The Thesis Thing (1993) 2/ PORTLAND SCHOOL OF ART - 1987-88, Associate of Arts in Architectural Design Program, Dean's List (1988), AIA Student Chapter (Member) 3/ HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN - 1986, Introduction to Landscape Architecture (Certificate) 4/ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH - 1985, Horticultural Intern (Exhibition Glasshouses) 5/ RICKER COLLEGE - 1972-76, Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies (1976), Who's Who in American Colleges & Universities (1975 & 1976), Dean's List(s), Putnam Citizenship Award (1976) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, ETC 
0/ AGENCE 'X' - 2007-Present, Director - Artist representation bureau - Exhibitions 'X' / Editions 'X' - Précis (RTF) - The Body of Art (RTF)CONSULTING: - Managing Editor, Log (New York, New York) 1/ /S/O(MA) / LANY - /S/yntactical Operations (Metaphorical Affects) - 2001-Present, Principal - Mobile (wandering) design / publishing / teaching / consulting unit within (superseding?) Landscape Agency New York - SAs (illustrated essays-as-things) - Gardens / Landscapes (landscapes-as-pretexts-for-/s/omething-else) - R&DD (Research, & Design Development / Project Consulting) TEACHING: Visiting Faculty, University of Adelaide (SA), School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, UD Studio (Fall 2005); Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide (SA), School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design (2005-2008); Lecturer, University of Adelaide (SA), School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Landscape Seminar II (Winter/Spring 2004) LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, ETC (SONGS & DANCES): “Upstream” [remarks on Formalism], Folio 05: Transitions [fifth-year, student exhibition], University of Adelaide (SA), School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design (November 2005); "The Given, The Taken, and The Given-Back", IFLA Regional Conference, Prague (May 2004); "Sowing the Whirlwind", Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Adelaide (April 2004) DESIGN JURIES: Bartlett School of Architecture (November 2005); University of Adelaide (SA), School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design (Fall 2005); University of Adelaide (SA), School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design (Spring 2004) CONSULTING: Occasional editor, Log (New York, New York); Guest Editor, Log 11 (New York, New York) What's New? (Spring 2006) / E-Portfolio (HTML) / E-Portfolio (RTF) 
2/ LANDSCAPE AGENCY NEW YORK (New York, New York) - 1998-Present, Director / Founder - Design, writing, research anti-bureau - Consulting - Performative essays (lectures) - Polemics (LANY Archive-Grotto) / PROJECTS & PROPOSALS: Lever House Landscape Restoration (New York, New York w/ Ken Smith); Competition X (Chaumont-sur-X, France); Ridgewood Glade (Queens, New York); Mutant Gardens (Lausanne 2000, Switzerland w/ Ken Smith); Mantova Mise en Scène (Mantua, Italy w/ Ken Smith); Bazantnice / Pheasants Field @ Prague Castle (Prague, Czech Republic); Citronovy Dvur / Lemon Court (Olomouc, Czech Republic, w/ Dalibor Borak); Nyack Garden (Nyack, New York) / Projects IndexCONSULTING: New York correspondent for Architekt magazine (Prague), 2000-2005; Consultant to the Professional Advisor for Fresh Kills End-Use Master Plan Design Competition (New York, New York), 2001 TEACHING: Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, History/Theory I (Fall 2000); Adjunct Associate Professor, City College New York, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Studio (Fall 2000) LECTURES & SYMPOSIA, ETC (PERFORMATIVE ESSAYS): "Landscape + Architecture + Aura", Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus (January 2003); "Landscape Urbanism", City College, MUD Program Seminar, New York (October 2001); "Moravian Shadows", Chatham College, Landscape Studies Program, Pittsburgh, PA (October 2001); "Dreaming Prague Gardens", North Carolina State University, Raleigh-Durham (February 2001); "The Golden Chain: Philosophy, Art, Architecture and Landscape Architecture", University of Toronto, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design (February 2001); "Lever House Landscape Restoration", Saving Corporate Modernism Symposium, Yale University School of Architecture (February 2001) DESIGN JURIES: University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning (Spring 2001); University of Pennsylvania, School of Architecture, Department of the Environment (Fall 2000); University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning (Spring 2000); Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Department of Landscape Architecture (Spring 2000); City College New York, School of Architecture & Urban Planning (Spring 1997) WRITING & PUBLICATIONS: Print & Internet Publications (Passim) / PDFS/RTFS (Archive-Grotto) The KSLA/LANY Lever House landscape restoration plan won an ASLA Design Merit Award in 2004 ... For details, cliquez ici ... SUPPLEMENTAL ACTIVITIES - Gavin Keeney has supplemented his teaching, design, and research work with architectural journalism and architectural bookselling ... He has worked for Urban Center Books, Rizzoli, and Lenox Hill Books, all in New York, and written for various journals including Architectural Record (New York), Architekt (Prague), and Oculus (New York) ... See Publications List ...  3/ KEN SMITH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT (New York, New York) - 1998-99, Interim Landscape Architect - Design development (various projects) 4/ [Deleted] 5/ TEAS FEELY HINGSTON ARCHITECTS (Portland, Maine) - 1992-94, Intern - Model making & project documentation (various projects) 6/ [Deleted] 7/ [Deleted] 8/ [Deleted]   |
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