Title & Author:

Recovering landscape : essays in contemporary landscape architecture / James Corner, editor.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.

Description:

xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Recovering landscape as a critical cultural practice / James Corner -- Nature recalled / Marc Treib -- The reclaiming of sites / Sébastien Marot -- Four trace concepts in landscape architecture / Christophe Girot -- Things take time and time takes things : the Danish landscape / Steen A.B. Høyer -- Shifting sites : the Swiss way, Geneva / Georges Descombes -- Octagon : the persistence of the ideal / Alan Balfour -- Liminal geometry and elemental landscape : construction and representation / Denis Cosgrove -- Aerial representation and the recovery of landscape / Charles Waldheim -- Mutuality and the cultures of landscape architecture / Stanislaus Fung -- Eidetic operations and new landscapes / James Corner -- Leveling the land / David Leatherbarrow -- The Amsterdam Bos : the modern public park and the construction of collective experience / Anita Berrizbeita -- Neither wilderness nor home : the Indian Maidan / Anuradha Mathur -- Airport/landscape / Denis Cosgrove (with paintings by Adrian Hemming) -- Programming the urban surface / Alex Wall -- Synthetic regionalization : the Dutch landscape toward a second modernity / Bart Lootsma.

Summary:

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 field of landscape architecture, include Alan Balfour, Denis Cosgrove, Georges Descombes, Christophe Girot, Steen Hoyer, David Leatherbarrow, Bart Lootsma, Sebastien Marot, Anuradha Mathur, Marc Treib, and Alex Wall.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568981791 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781568981796 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781568981772
1568981775

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Landinrichting.
Arquitetura paisagística (ensaios)

Added entries:

Corner, James, 1961-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201693
Call No.: SB472 .R4 1999
Status: Available