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More about Lorna Jordan and NIAUSI
Lorna Jordan received the 1997 fellowship from the Northwest Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy. NIAUSI Fellowships are granted to mid-career professionals as a sabbatical to focus on new work and to bring new resources and relationships to the built environment of the Northest.
Sponsored by the Seattle Arts Commission, Jordan has served as artist-in-residence for Seattle Public Utilities, and is currently working on the city's Longfellow Creek project (see page 9). She is an environmental artist who has created a series of installations and public works based on the garden.
According to Jordan, she is interested in the garden because it can be considered the philosophical balancing point between wild nature and human control and has historically represented a microcosmic expression of a world view.
Her interior installations and tableaus are simulated landscapes or gardens that look at the more eccentric aspects of our relationship with nature whereas her public works aim to integrate nature, art, and technology.
Jordan spent three months in Italy last fall, studying the Italian garden as theater and installation art.
"We hit the road with three cameras, multiple rolls of film, tons of books and Italian language tapes," said Jordan. "Starting on the east coast near Ancona, we made a great arc through northern Italy, visiting Pesaro, Verona, the Italian Lakes, Genoa, and finally Lucca. By the time we were through, we had visited 40 gardens."
Highlights, according to Jordan, include Villa Barbarigo near Padua, Villa Rizzardi near Verona, Ninfa near Rome, Isola Bella in Stresa, and Villa Caprile in Pesaro.
Jordan is the latest in a long list of NIAUSI fellows that goes back to 1985, when NBBJ principal David Hoedemaker took a break as principal with NBBJ to go to Rome and returned to write a paper entitled Six Lessons for Seattle: A Visit to the Eternal City.
Since then, NIAUSI fellows include architect Stuart Silk, architect Catherine Barrett, artist and lanscape architect Nancy Hammer, artist Ellen Sollod, artist and graphic designer Judy Anderson, landscape architect Kenichi Nakano, and architect Sue Partridge.
The due date for the 2000 NIAUSI fellowship application is August 31. Application instructions are available on June 1, and there will be an informational meeting on June 29.
For more information about NIAUSI and NIAUSI fellowships, call president Brenda Hake at 329-0356.
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