April Lecture: Macro Fit, Micro Identity

Jerry van Eyck co-founded !melk, a landscape architecture and urban design practice dedicated to large-scale urban and landscape interventions as well as public spaces and gardens, with deliberate references to local context, history, urban setting and surrounding ecology. !melk’s projects merge realism and fantasy to make spaces of wonder that sustain themselves and engage their communities.

Trained as a landscape architect and industrial designer, Jerry van Eyck is interested in how open and public space fit into the larger context of a city’s fabric and the urban experience, with the micro – materiality, ornamentation, and pattern as expressed through custom furniture, lighting, paving, and other details that provide each project its own singular identity. Jerry van Eyck will give three lectures in Alaska on April 2-4.

The rendering above is part of !melk’s Great Lakes-inspired vision for the new Pierscape design of the iconic and popular Navy Pier in Chicago.