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...ability of Van Valkenburgh, and the jury, to recede from the center of attention was important as they worked with finalists to refine ideas before selecting a winner. “What happened was the eight teams came in November, and we were kind of universally aghast, we were quite disappointed…the reason we had eight schemes was that there were so many different favorites among the jury,” Van Valkenburgh says...
...Van Valkenburgh saw the potential in Arad’s entry but says he saw a degree lifelessness in its starkness. “I think all of us kind of had our eyes wide open but were also looking for things to see if they validated our own predilections. And I was sort of looking for a scheme that boldly forested the site. That somehow said a forest is a healing thing...it opens our imagination,” says Van Valkenburgh...
Arad added renowned landscape architect Peter Walker to his team before the final round of the competition. “I insisted that he have a landscape architect of national stature added to the team,” says Van Valkenburgh. “I said I wouldn’t care who it was and I didn’t think it was appropriate that we tell him who to use...I think his wisdom in choosing Walker was the beginning of him winning...
...Like Van Valkenburgh, Walker was once the chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the GSD. Among his works is the Tanner Fountain in front of the Science Center, which has become a part of the quotidian at Harvard. This insistence on the role of nature in public life was initially missing from Arad’s entry, Van Valkenburgh says, and was recaptured when Walker added legions of trees to the plaza that created an urban sanctuary in the middle of downtown Manhattan...
...Van Valkenburgh says he sees a brilliance of the winning design due to its collaboration, a practice that he has carried through in many projects. “He was very wise in picking Pete [Walker], and you know Pete’s in his early 70s and Michael [Arad] is 30,” says Van Valkenburgh. “They had good chemistry...