ABSTRACT
The challenge presented by the disaffection of the post-war design is considerable, because it involves major adjustments, as seen in the case of Teardrop Park. On the one hand, Teardrop Park introduces a new way to imagine a post-industrial vision for a re-invented landscape, and at the time, those new locational requirements for recreational amenities force a new spatial formula that takes advantage of the city's past to look forward. In the park, the active tension between nature and artificiality, between landscape and framework, points to an alternative modernism of a pre-established nature able to overcome the failure of the early corporate park. As its author, Van Valkenburgh stated: “We often lack the capacity to read landscape as contemporary because we don't expect modernism to use natural elements.”
