“TO LOOK DEEPLY BEYOND THE SURFACE OF THINGS”
In the summer of 2021, the research project Women in Danish Architecture 1925-75 initiated a team workshop facilitated by project member and designer Liv Løvetand Rahbek. We worked with a collection of photographs taken by Liv in greater Copenhagen portraying landscapes and buildings designed by women architects and landscape architects, among others Kildeskovshallen in Gentofte from the 1960s.
The purpose of the workshop was to study the photographs of the architectural works searching for common design traits. Through the lens of photography, we examined how the landscapes and buildings appeared today, decades after being erected.
We went by the method of landscape architect and researcher Anne Whiston Spirn using photography to study landscapes: to look deeply at the surface of things and beyond to the stories landscapes tell[1].
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Liv Løvetand holds a degree in design from the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Since 2016, she has worked in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen, where she teaches visual communication and design process methods.
[1] “Q&A: Landscape Architect Anne Whiston Spirn on Nature and Cities”, Metropolis Mag, https://metropolismag.com/projects/qa-landscape-architect-anne-whiston-spirn-on-nature-and-cities/. Last visited October 22, 2021
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