Pro Memoria Garden, project for a Labyrinth, Lüdenhausen, Germany, Aerial perspective
Emilio Ambasz
Argentine, born 1943
1978
A colored-pencil, ink, and graphite aerial rendering of Emilio Ambasz’s Pro Memoria Garden—a proposed labyrinth in Lüdenhausen that aims to translate a memorial landscape into a precise, architectural scheme.
What strikes you is a low, interlaced field of green bands laid out as a repeating labyrinthine lattice that seems to float on a wide, spare beige plane, its crisp perspective and soft shadows giving the diagram a calm, almost surreal presence.
The work exemplifies Ambasz’s fusion of architecture and landscape, using minimalist, diagrammatic drawing to propose ecological and commemorative spaces and anticipating later conversations about integrating green design into architectural practice.
Medium
Color pencil, color ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensions
19 5/8 x 58 5/8" (49.8 x 148.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Pierre Apraxine
Accession
440.1997
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