Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture

by Corner, James

ISBN13:
9781568981796
ISBN10:
1568981791
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1999-08-01
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr
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Summary

The resurgence of interest in the landscape has produced this collection of essays by experts discussing recent developments; touching on themes of reclamation, urbanism, geometry, representation, and temporality.

Author Biography

James Corner James Corner is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author of the award-winning title Taking Measures Across the American Landscape.

Preface

Introduction: Recovering Landscape as a Critical Cultural Practice

(28)

James Corner

PART ONE: RECLAIMING PLACE AND TIME

Nature Recalled

(16)

Marc Treib

The Reclaiming of Sites

(14)

Sebastien Marot

Four Trace Concepts in Landscape Architecture

(10)

Christophe Girot

Things Take Time and Time Takes Things: The Danish Landscape

(10)

Steen A. B. Hoyer

Shifting Sites: The Swiss Way, Geneva

(8)

Georges Descombes

Octagon: The Persistence of the Ideal

(16)

Alan Balfour

PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING AND REPRESENTING LANDSCAPE

Liminal Geometry and Elemental Landscape: Construction and Representation

103

(18)

Denis Cosgrove

Aerial Representation and the Recovery of Landscape

121

(20)

Charles Waldheim

Mutuality and the Cultures of Landscape Architecture

141

(12)

Stanislaus Fung

Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes

153

(18)

James Corner

Leveling the Land

171

(16)

David Leatherbarrow

PART THREE: URBANIZING LANDSCAPE

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

187

(18)

Anita Berrizbeita

Neither Wilderness nor Home: The Indian Maidan

205

(16)

Anuradha Mathur

Airport/Landscape

221

(12)

Denis Cosgrove (with paintings by Adrian Hemming)

Programming the Urban Surface

233

(18)

Alex Wall

Synthetic Regionalization: The Dutch Landscape Toward a Second Modernity

251

(24)

Bart Lootsma

Afterword: What Is Public in Landscape?

275

(10)

Alan Balfour

Contributors

285

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