基础设施的边缘空间和平凡景观的创造一视觉知识与设计 - Infrastructure’s Marginal Spaces and the Invention of a Prosaic Landscape – Visual Knowledge and Design

The essay develops a critical approach and raises questions about the perception of the contemporary urban space project, defined by infrastructure. Recognizing the importance of visual perception for landscape architecture, this essay aims to affirm and write the history of the emergence of a "Prosaic landscape." Defined as "picturesque," "vernacular," "ugly and ordinary," this landscape appears underperforming, banal, and devoid of poetry. The peripheral, accidental spaces along highways, railway tracks, overpasses, pipelines, and cables play a crucial role in this prosaic imaginary. Based on these perspectives, it is suggested that the construction of the need for a visual description of the "prosaic landscape" served as a legitimization of a "popularized" territory to create a new form of design. In particular, the essay references the experiences of Gordon Matta-Clark (The Monuments of Passaic, 1967), Edward Ruscha’s photographic investigation (Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1963), and the works of Denis Scott-Brown and Robert Venturi (Complexity and Contradictions, 1966; Learning from Las Vegas, 1972).