
Adventure Playground, Central Park, May 2009

Recess, 2009 by Patrick Allen
Aerial photography is similar to photographing out of a moving car, with a constant stream of imagery rushing by and attempting to capture a fleeting landscape. Beyond the spontaneous images that come from the movement of being in the air is the feeling of an explorer in a world that only machines and birds usually see. Even though anyone can now have this viewpoint from a satellite, I have a desire to show more [than] a map of the land but a feeling of the differences and similarities between the world’s natural patterns and the patterns we make.

Pavilion in Gangjin
STRUCTURED PLAY
Two of the country’s most creative and thoughtful playground designers—architect Richard Dattner and landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg—spent countless hours observing how children construct and choreograph their own play, using whatever materials and urban artifacts are at their disposal.

Richard Dattner’s Adventure Playground, Central Park