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Summary
Summary
These essays make a unique contribution to the documentation of twentieth century landscape architecture. They address key moments in history that have sometimes been overlooked or forgotten, emerging moments, and potential moments of leverage. The essays present contemporary examples in architecture, landscape architecture and garden design that offer new models. Relating Architecture to Landscape will challenge accepted assumptions about the nature of landscape architecture.
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Having had its beginning in papers given at a conference on the theme "rethinking the architecture/landscape relationship," this anthology has been burdened with a title as misleading as it is prosaic. Architectural considerations are not the primary focus of these essays exploring the conceptual foundations and design strategies of landscape projects that illustrate alternative or emerging values--aesthetic, ecological, or social in nature--and that hold promise of redirecting the course of contemporary practice. Sir Peter Shepheard's introduction to his 1953 Modern Gardens is reprinted here, an exemplary early effort to analyze the nature of landscape architecture as an artistic enterprise in the postwar era. The editor only partially succeeds, in introductions to the book and to each of five thematic sections, in providing a well-defined theoretical context for the wide range of international projects and professional developments addressed by the various contributors. But even if these disparate but provocative excursions into the history and theory of 20th-century landscape architecture add up to a somewhat unwieldy assemblage, readers will be stimulated in their own thinking by the groundbreaking work brought together in this volume. Graduate students; faculty; professionals. C. M. Howett; emeritus, University of Georgia
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements |
| IntroductionJan Birksted |
| Section One The Modernist Context |
| Introduction |
| Introduction to Modern Gardens (1953)Sir Peter Shepheard |
| Section Two Relating architecture to landscape through elements and materials |
| Introduction |
| Time and temporality in Japanese gardensMara Miller |
| Detailing and materials of outdoor space: the Scandinavian exampleJan Woudstra |
| Playing with artificeRoberto Burle |
| Marx's gardensJacques Leenhardt |
| Section Three Relating architecture to landscape through geometry, form and scale |
| Introduction |
| External interior/internal exterior spaces at the Maeght FoundationJan Birksted |
| A landscape fit for a democracy: Joze Plecnik at Prague Castle (1920-1935) Caroline Constant |
| Tokyo as emblem of a postmodern paradigmAugustin Berque |
| The re-invention of the siteThomas Deckker |
| Section Four Relating architecture to landscape through collaborations |
| Introduction |
| Hans Scharoun and Hermann Mattern: a collaborationPeter Blundell Jones |
| Dimitri Pikionis in situ Dimitri Philippides and Agni Pikionis |
| Landscape architecture: ecology, community, artJohn Hopkins |
| Section Five Contemporary case studies |
| Introduction |
| The necessity of invention: Bernard Lassus's garden landscapesStephen Bann |
| The prospect at Dungeness: Derek Jarman's gardenJan Birksted |
| Building in NaturePeter Salter |
| Parc St. Pierre, Amiens Sandra Morris |
| List of Contributors |
| Index |
