3835 Campus Drive
Architecture Building (145 ARC)
College Park, MD 20742
United States
Forest and Architecture [Land8x8]
Gallery Talk: Monday, November 17th, 5pm, Kibel Gallery. Reception to follow.
Table in Rome 2: Forum as Planted Field is an art installation funded by a University of Maryland Creative and performing Arts Award that involves interactive sculpture and descriptive architectural drawings.
The exhibition is part 2 of a series that deals with both ancient and modern Rome and expands the definition of Table to become not only the flat surface where we sit and eat food, but also the conversation, and the larger urban and architectural constructs that support food eating and the communal activities that go along with it.
Join us for a desert reception on November 17, 2014 at 5pm with biscotti (pine nut cookies), a Roman treats. At the reception we will also be showing and discussing recordings of how the exhibit has been interacted with throughout the semester by viewers.
Lead Designer: Jana VanderGoot RA
Design Collaborator: Michael Ezban RA
Student Collaborators: Daniel Moreno-Holt MArch 2015, Katarina Svennsson MArch 2015, Amy Marin MLarch 2014
Jana VanderGoot
Jana VanderGoot is interested in the intersection of architecture and landscape. Her work and research focuses on food systems, forestry practice, and the ways in which buildings act as extensions of larger urban ecological networks. Vandergoot was the recipient of the 2010 Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Rieger Graham Prize and is an Affiliated Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, where she conducted research on ancient and modern food systems and their role in the formation of public space, culture, and architecture in the urban context of Rome.
Vandergoot is an Assistant Professor of Architecture, tenure track, at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She has taught architecture at the University of Virginia and in 2012 was the Director of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Summer Design Institute.
Vandergoot holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she received a Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. She also holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia, where her thesis work on urban food foraging practices as a catalyst for public spaces in city of Charlottesville earned a Washington UNBUILT Honor Award from the Washington DC AIA. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame. Jana is a registered architect and a founding partner at Vandergoot Ezban Studio.