Recovering Landscape Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory

Name: Recovering Landscape Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory
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ISBN: 9781568981796

ISBN-10: 1568981791

ISBN-13: 9781568981796

Edition: 1999

Authors: James Corner, James Corner

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The past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape. While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, it also implies renewal, invention, and transformation. Recovering Landscape collects a number of essays that discuss why landscape is gaining increased attention today, and what new possibilities might emerge from this situation. Themes such as reclamation, urbanism, infrastructure, geometry, representation, and temporality are explored in discussions drawn from recent developments not only in the United States but also in the Netherlands, France, India, and Southeast Asia. The contributors to this collection, all leading figures in the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 8/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Recovering Landscape as a Critical Cultural Practice




Reclaiming Place and Time



Nature Recalled




The Reclaiming of Sites




Four Trace Concepts in Landscape Architecture




Things Take Time and Time Takes Things: The Danish Landscape




Shifting Sites: The Swiss Way, Geneva




Octagon: The Persistence of the Ideal




Constructing and Representing Landscape



Liminal Geometry and Elemental Landscape: Construction and Representation




Aerial Representation and the Recovery of Landscape




Mutuality and the Cultures of Landscape Architecture




Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes




Leveling the Land




Urbanizing Landscape



The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience




Neither Wilderness nor Home: The Indian Maidan




Airport/Landscape




Programming the Urban Surface




Synthetic Regionalization: The Dutch Landscape Toward a Second Modernity



Afterword: What Is Public in Landscape?



Contributors