Imaginary Landscape No.4
Pavilion
Blacksburg, VA
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Virginia Tech
Fall 2015
1 Week
Professor:
Heinrich Schnoedt
A pavilion, dedicated to the memory of artist John Cage (1912-1992). Various works will be showcased by the artist including three paintings and ten books.
​John Cage’s “Imaginary Landscape No.4” prescribes a way 12 radios are tuned to a certain way for certain lengths of time, which creates a whole new experience of music and sound. The architecture performs the same way. It prescribes the way which dynamics and factors of the site are framed and viewed, which like John Cage’s composition, create a whole new experience of place.
Dynamic and changing factors surrounding the site were chosen to frame. This includes parking spots, seasonal changing of leaves on the trees, the sidewalk, the war memorial, and drill field. The experience of the architecture is determined by those constantly changing factors.
