Lara Zureikat

摘要

"My favorite moment is right after a garden's installed," says Lara Zureikat, Jordanian landscape architect and associate director of Amman's Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE). Within hours, butterflies flit out of nowhere, bees buzz in, and birds perch. "That's when a garden isn't mine anymore. It takes on a life of its own." At the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank town of Birzeit, the fauna materialized on schedule, but significantly, so have thousands of people. Though the prismatic structure by Heneghan Peng Architects was completed last year with lofty goals and empty rooms—internal disagreements delayed exhibitions until this September—visitors could luxuriate amid the plants that Zureikat had assembled on the grounds, a permanent collection of the vegetal sort.