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Walter Brugger (1924-2002) a été l'un des architectes paysagistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre. On lui doit d’innombrables réalisations allant de l’Expo 64 à l’arboretum d’Aubonne, de l’Ecole de Minoprio en Italie du Nord au jardin du Château de Glenveagh en Irlande. Son terrain de prédilection fut cependant le canton de Genève, où il dessina entre autre les(...)
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Walter Brugger (1924-2002) a été l'un des architectes paysagistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre. On lui doit d’innombrables réalisations allant de l’Expo 64 à l’arboretum d’Aubonne, de l’Ecole de Minoprio en Italie du Nord au jardin du Château de Glenveagh en Irlande. Son terrain de prédilection fut cependant le canton de Genève, où il dessina entre autre les(...)
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Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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September 2005, Gollion
September 2005, Gollion
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Walter Brugger : architecte-paysagiste
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Walter Brugger (1924-2002) a été l'un des architectes paysagistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre. On lui doit d’innombrables réalisations allant de l’Expo 64 à l’arboretum d’Aubonne, de l’Ecole de Minoprio en Italie du Nord au jardin du Château de Glenveagh en Irlande. Son terrain de prédilection fut cependant le canton de Genève, où il dessina entre autre les aménagements extérieurs du CERN, du BIT, de l’OMS, de l’Hôpital Cantonal, des autoroutes, sans oublier les parcs de jeux et une infinité de jardins privés.
Walter Brugger : architecte-paysagiste
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Walter Brugger (1924-2002) a été l'un des architectes paysagistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre. On lui doit d’innombrables réalisations allant de l’Expo 64 à l’arboretum d’Aubonne, de l’Ecole de Minoprio en Italie du Nord au jardin du Château de Glenveagh en Irlande. Son terrain de prédilection fut cependant le canton de Genève, où il dessina entre autre les aménagements extérieurs du CERN, du BIT, de l’OMS, de l’Hôpital Cantonal, des autoroutes, sans oublier les parcs de jeux et une infinité de jardins privés.
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September 2005, Gollion
September 2005, Gollion
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how(...)
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how(...)
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December 2005, New York
December 2005, New York
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Ken Smith, landscape architect : urban projects 2
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how each project espresses new relationships between landscape and place within the city.
Ken Smith, landscape architect : urban projects 2
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how each project espresses new relationships between landscape and place within the city.
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December 2005, New York
December 2005, New York
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Büro Kiefer was founded in Berlin in 1989. A mathematical and aesthetical logic lies at the basis of every design. In recombing both, landscape design answers to the ever growing job responsabilities : architecture, urban development and region development oriente the landscape. Linked up with this challenge, but also with the cultural tradition of garden art, Büro Kiefer(...)
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Büro Kiefer was founded in Berlin in 1989. A mathematical and aesthetical logic lies at the basis of every design. In recombing both, landscape design answers to the ever growing job responsabilities : architecture, urban development and region development oriente the landscape. Linked up with this challenge, but also with the cultural tradition of garden art, Büro Kiefer(...)
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June 2006, Stuttgart
June 2006, Stuttgart
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Büro Kiefer landscape design : rekombinationen recombinations
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Büro Kiefer was founded in Berlin in 1989. A mathematical and aesthetical logic lies at the basis of every design. In recombing both, landscape design answers to the ever growing job responsabilities : architecture, urban development and region development oriente the landscape. Linked up with this challenge, but also with the cultural tradition of garden art, Büro Kiefer creates new hybrid from town and landscape. Their starting point is a contemporary undestanding of space. On the basis of an analysis of the space, the division of influences and ideas an recombining them, Büro Kiefer creates images referring to the future. Photography by Hans Joosten.
Büro Kiefer landscape design : rekombinationen recombinations
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Büro Kiefer was founded in Berlin in 1989. A mathematical and aesthetical logic lies at the basis of every design. In recombing both, landscape design answers to the ever growing job responsabilities : architecture, urban development and region development oriente the landscape. Linked up with this challenge, but also with the cultural tradition of garden art, Büro Kiefer creates new hybrid from town and landscape. Their starting point is a contemporary undestanding of space. On the basis of an analysis of the space, the division of influences and ideas an recombining them, Büro Kiefer creates images referring to the future. Photography by Hans Joosten.
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June 2006, Stuttgart
June 2006, Stuttgart
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La paysagiste américaine Kathryn Gustafson a acquis une renommée internationale exceptionnelle. Son travail actuel se concentre sur les espaces publics. La récente Fontaine à la mémoire de Diana, Princess of Wales, au Hyde Park à Londres, n'est qu'un exemple d'une longue liste de projets acclamés, réalisés avec ses associés chez Gustafson Porter (Londres) et Gustafson(...)
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La paysagiste américaine Kathryn Gustafson a acquis une renommée internationale exceptionnelle. Son travail actuel se concentre sur les espaces publics. La récente Fontaine à la mémoire de Diana, Princess of Wales, au Hyde Park à Londres, n'est qu'un exemple d'une longue liste de projets acclamés, réalisés avec ses associés chez Gustafson Porter (Londres) et Gustafson(...)
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Moving horizons : les paysages de Kathryn Gustafson et Associés
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La paysagiste américaine Kathryn Gustafson a acquis une renommée internationale exceptionnelle. Son travail actuel se concentre sur les espaces publics. La récente Fontaine à la mémoire de Diana, Princess of Wales, au Hyde Park à Londres, n'est qu'un exemple d'une longue liste de projets acclamés, réalisés avec ses associés chez Gustafson Porter (Londres) et Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle), dont la Arthur Ross Terrace au American Museum of Natural History (New York), le Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek à Amsterdam, le Lurie Garden à Chicago et le Hadiqat As-Samah à Beyrouth. Les plus de trente projets internationaux présentés dans Moving Horizons illustrent le talent distinctif et éminemment artistique de Kathryn Gustafson et Associés à créer des formes sensuelles, sculpturales. Le livre présente en même temps les collaborations avec des architectes comme Norman Foster, Ian Ritchie, Mecanoo, Valode & Pistre et James Polshek. L'importance de cette œuvre a également été reconnue par de nombreux prix, comme le Chrysler Design Award, et la sélection pour l'exposition " Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape " au Museum of Modern Art de New York.
Moving horizons : les paysages de Kathryn Gustafson et Associés
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La paysagiste américaine Kathryn Gustafson a acquis une renommée internationale exceptionnelle. Son travail actuel se concentre sur les espaces publics. La récente Fontaine à la mémoire de Diana, Princess of Wales, au Hyde Park à Londres, n'est qu'un exemple d'une longue liste de projets acclamés, réalisés avec ses associés chez Gustafson Porter (Londres) et Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle), dont la Arthur Ross Terrace au American Museum of Natural History (New York), le Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek à Amsterdam, le Lurie Garden à Chicago et le Hadiqat As-Samah à Beyrouth. Les plus de trente projets internationaux présentés dans Moving Horizons illustrent le talent distinctif et éminemment artistique de Kathryn Gustafson et Associés à créer des formes sensuelles, sculpturales. Le livre présente en même temps les collaborations avec des architectes comme Norman Foster, Ian Ritchie, Mecanoo, Valode & Pistre et James Polshek. L'importance de cette œuvre a également été reconnue par de nombreux prix, comme le Chrysler Design Award, et la sélection pour l'exposition " Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape " au Museum of Modern Art de New York.
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February 2005, Basel
February 2005, Basel
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Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson’s many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of(...)
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Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson’s many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of(...)
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Landscape Architecture, Monographs
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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June 2003, Charlottesville
June 2003, Charlottesville
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Thomas Jefferson, landscape architect
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Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson’s many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of his extraordinary accomplishments in the field. "Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect" investigates the many influences on — and of — the Jeffersonian legacy in architecture. Jefferson’s personality, friendships, and convictions, complemented by his extensive reading and travels, clearly influenced his architectural work. His fresh approach to incorporating foreign elements into domestic designs, his revolutionary approach to relating the house to the surrounding land, and his profound influences on the architectural character of the District of Columbia are just a few of Jefferson’s contributions to the American landscape. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps, plans, and drawings, as well as pictures of the species of trees that Jefferson used for his designs, generously illustrate the engaging narrative in "Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect".
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Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson’s many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of his extraordinary accomplishments in the field. "Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect" investigates the many influences on — and of — the Jeffersonian legacy in architecture. Jefferson’s personality, friendships, and convictions, complemented by his extensive reading and travels, clearly influenced his architectural work. His fresh approach to incorporating foreign elements into domestic designs, his revolutionary approach to relating the house to the surrounding land, and his profound influences on the architectural character of the District of Columbia are just a few of Jefferson’s contributions to the American landscape. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps, plans, and drawings, as well as pictures of the species of trees that Jefferson used for his designs, generously illustrate the engaging narrative in "Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect".
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June 2003, Charlottesville
June 2003, Charlottesville
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating(...)
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating(...)
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January 2003, Rotterdam
January 2003, Rotterdam
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Louis G. Le Roy : nature culture fusion
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating jungle populated by large stacked edifices an 'Eco-Cathedral'. Inspired by the Nobel Prize-winner Ilya Prigogine, Le Roy pondered the following question: 'What can one person achieve working with nature in space and time? This book zooms in on those two aspects crucial to his work: space and time. Le Roy's position on these concepts is at odds with the often rapid, super-efficient, function-hugging approach to greenspace and nature in the Netherlands. The Eco-Cathedral is a place where time regains space and space regains time. So the project he began is expected to be continued by others at least until the year 3000. The ideas underpinning Le Roy's project - the importance of the time factor in spatial processes, and working with complex, dynamic systems and networks - make it relevant to current discourse on architecture, urban design and spatial planning.
Louis G. Le Roy : nature culture fusion
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating jungle populated by large stacked edifices an 'Eco-Cathedral'. Inspired by the Nobel Prize-winner Ilya Prigogine, Le Roy pondered the following question: 'What can one person achieve working with nature in space and time? This book zooms in on those two aspects crucial to his work: space and time. Le Roy's position on these concepts is at odds with the often rapid, super-efficient, function-hugging approach to greenspace and nature in the Netherlands. The Eco-Cathedral is a place where time regains space and space regains time. So the project he began is expected to be continued by others at least until the year 3000. The ideas underpinning Le Roy's project - the importance of the time factor in spatial processes, and working with complex, dynamic systems and networks - make it relevant to current discourse on architecture, urban design and spatial planning.
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January 2003, Rotterdam
January 2003, Rotterdam
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Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and(...)
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Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and(...)
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October 2003, London
October 2003, London
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The garden of cosmic speculation
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Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden's creation into an investigation into the revelations of recent science, using landscape and design to shed light on the way we can now conceive of the Universe. This book is illustrated with year-round photography
The garden of cosmic speculation
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Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden's creation into an investigation into the revelations of recent science, using landscape and design to shed light on the way we can now conceive of the Universe. This book is illustrated with year-round photography
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October 2003, London
October 2003, London
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Illustrated with 150 photographs, plans, and drawings, Howett’s study analyzes the singular convergence of influences that occurred in the imagination of a highly unusual woman. The book provides welcome insight into the culture of the New South and into a richly inventive period in the history of American landscape architecture.
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Illustrated with 150 photographs, plans, and drawings, Howett’s study analyzes the singular convergence of influences that occurred in the imagination of a highly unusual woman. The book provides welcome insight into the culture of the New South and into a richly inventive period in the history of American landscape architecture.
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A world of her own making: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the landscape of Reynolda
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Illustrated with 150 photographs, plans, and drawings, Howett’s study analyzes the singular convergence of influences that occurred in the imagination of a highly unusual woman. The book provides welcome insight into the culture of the New South and into a richly inventive period in the history of American landscape architecture.
A world of her own making: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the landscape of Reynolda
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Illustrated with 150 photographs, plans, and drawings, Howett’s study analyzes the singular convergence of influences that occurred in the imagination of a highly unusual woman. The book provides welcome insight into the culture of the New South and into a richly inventive period in the history of American landscape architecture.
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May 2007, Amherst
May 2007, Amherst
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By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the(...)
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By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the(...)
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February 2008, Montréal, Kingston, London, Ithaca
February 2008, Montréal, Kingston, London, Ithaca
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The cultivated landscape: an exploration of art and agriculture
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By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present. Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on landscape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art. They also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and economics have played in agricultural development and the parallels to changes in art form. The Cultivated Landscape ends with a discussion of the complex issues facing agriculture today, the need for greater connectivity between agriculture and our environment, and options for the future.
The cultivated landscape: an exploration of art and agriculture
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By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present. Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on landscape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art. They also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and economics have played in agricultural development and the parallels to changes in art form. The Cultivated Landscape ends with a discussion of the complex issues facing agriculture today, the need for greater connectivity between agriculture and our environment, and options for the future.
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February 2008, Montréal, Kingston, London, Ithaca
February 2008, Montréal, Kingston, London, Ithaca
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In December 2006, close to Zurich airport, Opfikerpark was completed after a construction period of 79 weeks. Central element of the park is a concrete sculpture, over 500m-long, accommodating a lake surrounded by sandy beaches and a reed belt. The idea for the design of the park was the result of an international competition initiated in 2001 and won by Berlin practice(...)
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In December 2006, close to Zurich airport, Opfikerpark was completed after a construction period of 79 weeks. Central element of the park is a concrete sculpture, over 500m-long, accommodating a lake surrounded by sandy beaches and a reed belt. The idea for the design of the park was the result of an international competition initiated in 2001 and won by Berlin practice(...)
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July 2007, Berlin
July 2007, Berlin
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79 KW Zurich : building Opfikerpark
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In December 2006, close to Zurich airport, Opfikerpark was completed after a construction period of 79 weeks. Central element of the park is a concrete sculpture, over 500m-long, accommodating a lake surrounded by sandy beaches and a reed belt. The idea for the design of the park was the result of an international competition initiated in 2001 and won by Berlin practice Kiefer. As the second exhibition at gallery AedesLand, this project will be introduced in June 2007. Contrary to the usual approach, the exhibition does not aim to present an already completed construction but rather make transparent the process of creation and realization of the building project ‘opfikerpark’. The efforts and challenges to create a complex and outstanding structure, which were faced by client, planners, engineers as well as executing contractors, shall be recorded in a commented illustration of the construction work. Building sites are temporary production sites involving a multitude of disciplines and trades which need to be coordinated. The exhibition reflects the progressing technological, organizational and design process as well as the objective and subjective influences in effect and thus aims to convey a realistic image of the building activities. Photographer Hanns Joosten has documented the construction progress at regular intervals. His high-quality, large-scale images communicate the special aesthetics of a building site in all its diversity and affect the atmosphere of the exhibition. The whole exhibition space will be part of the exhibition, even floors and ceilings. In addition, a media installation explains the progress of constructing Opfikerpark where viewpoints of diverse disciplines and participants meet. The players get a chance to speak and express their personal perspective on the building process with spoken commentaries. How is a large park constructed? How does a building site work? What do you need so many planners for? And how do they work together? Based on these questions, spontaneous contributions shall throw a critical and ironic light on the expert discourse.
79 KW Zurich : building Opfikerpark
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In December 2006, close to Zurich airport, Opfikerpark was completed after a construction period of 79 weeks. Central element of the park is a concrete sculpture, over 500m-long, accommodating a lake surrounded by sandy beaches and a reed belt. The idea for the design of the park was the result of an international competition initiated in 2001 and won by Berlin practice Kiefer. As the second exhibition at gallery AedesLand, this project will be introduced in June 2007. Contrary to the usual approach, the exhibition does not aim to present an already completed construction but rather make transparent the process of creation and realization of the building project ‘opfikerpark’. The efforts and challenges to create a complex and outstanding structure, which were faced by client, planners, engineers as well as executing contractors, shall be recorded in a commented illustration of the construction work. Building sites are temporary production sites involving a multitude of disciplines and trades which need to be coordinated. The exhibition reflects the progressing technological, organizational and design process as well as the objective and subjective influences in effect and thus aims to convey a realistic image of the building activities. Photographer Hanns Joosten has documented the construction progress at regular intervals. His high-quality, large-scale images communicate the special aesthetics of a building site in all its diversity and affect the atmosphere of the exhibition. The whole exhibition space will be part of the exhibition, even floors and ceilings. In addition, a media installation explains the progress of constructing Opfikerpark where viewpoints of diverse disciplines and participants meet. The players get a chance to speak and express their personal perspective on the building process with spoken commentaries. How is a large park constructed? How does a building site work? What do you need so many planners for? And how do they work together? Based on these questions, spontaneous contributions shall throw a critical and ironic light on the expert discourse.
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July 2007, Berlin
July 2007, Berlin
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