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Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin's work, from(...)
Magnificent buildings, splendid gardens
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Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin's work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin's approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of his archival research, including his discovery of crucial documents on the Emilian architect Giovan Battista Aleotti and the only documentary evidence identifying Vignola as the architect of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia. Other essays take a much broader cultural view, investigating, for example, the phenomenon of public access to private Renaissance gardens, elucidating the evolving meaning of images of the goddess Venus in English gardens, and identifying the significance of the decorative programs of monuments as diverse as the Villa Belvedere in Rome and the eighteenth-century gardens at Rousham in Oxfordshire. The book also includes a commentary on each essay, written by one of Coffin's former students; a full analytical index; and a complete bibliography of Coffin's work.
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March 2008, New Haven
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Two thousand years of evolution have created the landscape units and functions of the lagoon: should it be taken into account?
2G dossier consurso 2G competition: Venice Lagoon Park
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Two thousand years of evolution have created the landscape units and functions of the lagoon: should it be taken into account?
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Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton Mackaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation, recreation, and regional planning. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant and unique figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history.
Benton Mackaye conservationist, planner, and creator of the appalachian trail
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Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton Mackaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation, recreation, and regional planning. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant and unique figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history.
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The artist's relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New Topographics movement turned their attention unsentimentally to the industrialized "man-altered" environment; in the 1980s, artists animated(...)
Badlands : new horizons in landscape
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The artist's relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New Topographics movement turned their attention unsentimentally to the industrialized "man-altered" environment; in the 1980s, artists animated the natural landscape with art, movement, and performance; and in the 1990s, Eco-Artists collaborated with scientists to address sustainability, pollution, and politics. "Badlands" explores the latest manifestations of artists’ fascination with the earth, gathering work by contemporary artists who approach landscape through history, culture, and science. "Badlands", which accompanies an exhibition at MASS MoCA, approaches landscape as a theme with variations, grouping artists and their art (which is shown in 150 color illustrations) by category : Historians, who recontextualize the history of landscape depiction; Explorers, who explore the environment and our place within it; Activists and Pragmatists, who alert us to problems in the natural world and suggest solutions; and the Aestheticists, who look at the beauty found in nature. Each section begins with an essay : Gregory Volk maps the evolution of the genre from the Hudson River School to Earth Art; Ginger Strand examines the relationship between man and landscape through our cultural history; Tensie Whelan discusses environmental science, sustainability, and climate change; and Denise Markonish considers the new genre of landscape that emerges from the work displayed in Badlands. As a physical object, Badlands supports the values represented by its intellectual and artistic content: it was produced using FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified techniques including paper, printing, and inks. Artists: Robert Adams, Vaughn Bell, Boyle Family, Melissa Brown, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Leila Daw, Gregory Euclide, J. Henry Fair, Mike Glier, Anthony Goicolea, Marine Hugonnier, Paul Jacobsen, Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform, Nina Katchadourian, Jane Marsching, Alexis Rockman, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Smolinski, Yutaka Sone, Jennifer Steinkamp, Mary Temple. Copublished with MASS MoCA
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"Nature Over Again" reveals the story behind the majority of Finlay's renowned garden installations, and is the first study to examine his garden designs and 'interventions' in a consequential way. An accomplished Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener, Finlay infused his garden designs with a distinct aesthetic philosophy and poetic sensibility.John Dixon Hunt(...)
Nature over again: the garden art of Ian Hamilton Finlay
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"Nature Over Again" reveals the story behind the majority of Finlay's renowned garden installations, and is the first study to examine his garden designs and 'interventions' in a consequential way. An accomplished Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener, Finlay infused his garden designs with a distinct aesthetic philosophy and poetic sensibility.John Dixon Hunt situates his analysis of Finlay's gardens in the context of that broader philosophy and poetic work, drawing on Finlay's books, prints and other written reflections about the art and practice of garden design. From the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart to the Serpentine Gallery in London to the University of California at San Diego campus, the book documents how Finlay built an oeuvre of international renown, and ultimately argues that Finlay's innovations are best understood in the context of the long tradition of European gardens.
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Le commerce équitable s'est illustré, ces dernières années, comme une possible réponse aux inégalités dans les échanges entre le Nord et le Sud. Le succès du commerce équitable a révélé les consommateurs des pays développés y étaient sensibles et étaient conscients des nouveaux défis apparus avec la mondialisation. Comment répondre aux besoins alimentaires des populations(...)
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January 1900, Paris
Les jardins du commerce équitable
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Le commerce équitable s'est illustré, ces dernières années, comme une possible réponse aux inégalités dans les échanges entre le Nord et le Sud. Le succès du commerce équitable a révélé les consommateurs des pays développés y étaient sensibles et étaient conscients des nouveaux défis apparus avec la mondialisation. Comment répondre aux besoins alimentaires des populations et dans le même temps conserver les espaces naturels, protéger la biodiversité, faire face aux enjeux écologiques liés au développement industriel et à l'urbanisation... En y associant les populations paysannes héritières de savoirs et de savoir-faire respectueux des équilibres écologiques, répond le commerce équitable. Car l'agriculture paysanne est, par son histoire, porteuse d'une gestion des territoires qui fonde la diversité agricole, alimentaire et, ce faisant, humaine de notre planète. Ce livre permet de découvrir le terrain où s'exerce chaque jour les effets du commerce équitable, ces jardins du monde où sont cultivés les produits, cacao, café, thé, sucre, fruits, épices, riz, fonio, quinoa... par des groupements de petits producteurs. Ce livre est une illustration de la richesse, de la beauté, de la diversité et aussi de la fragilité d'un monde qu'il s'agit de préserver.
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The first two sections of the book focus on the city-planning development potential of the Rhine riverbank, particularly in the Cologne/Bonn region. The extensive third section contains a collection of ninety example projects from throughout Europe.
Riverscapes: designing urban embankments
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The first two sections of the book focus on the city-planning development potential of the Rhine riverbank, particularly in the Cologne/Bonn region. The extensive third section contains a collection of ninety example projects from throughout Europe.
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This book presents an extensive typology of possible approaches to working with the site. With more than three hundred landscape designs from every time and place, it systematically presents the methods that underpin the processes involoved in composing landscapes. Topics range from architectural details to gardens all the way to cityscapes and cultivated areas,(...)
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November 2008, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Composing landscapes: analysis, typology and experiments for design
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This book presents an extensive typology of possible approaches to working with the site. With more than three hundred landscape designs from every time and place, it systematically presents the methods that underpin the processes involoved in composing landscapes. Topics range from architectural details to gardens all the way to cityscapes and cultivated areas, including New York's Central Park, sixteenth and seventeenth century Italian gardens, and Seine landscapes in Paris.
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Shanghai: new botanic garden
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To propose a botanical garden in one of the world's most rapidly expanding cities is of course a gesture that invokes ecological issues regarding sustainability and the conservation of plant life. The German landscape architect's planning group Valentien intend the garden that they are constructing, for Chenshan (Hill Chen) in the Song Jiang District of Shanghai (just(...)
Shanghai: new botanic garden
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To propose a botanical garden in one of the world's most rapidly expanding cities is of course a gesture that invokes ecological issues regarding sustainability and the conservation of plant life. The German landscape architect's planning group Valentien intend the garden that they are constructing, for Chenshan (Hill Chen) in the Song Jiang District of Shanghai (just outside the city center), to be such a gesture, as well as a model of plant conservation and scientific research development-and one of Shanghai's most ambitious landmarks. The project is enormous, and informed throughout by the architects' ecological imperatives: Energy-saving technologies are to be utilized in the garden's buildings (greenhouses, laboratories and education center) and renewable materials will be deployed throughout.
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This amply footnoted collection of black-and-white photographs and texts by the German artist Andrea Geyer investigates and deconstructs the histories of several Native American tribes. Essayist Janet Catherine Berlo writes, "The pleasure of this work resembles the pleasure of travel through an unfamiliar landscape : sometimes arduous, and often filled with surprise and(...)
Andrea Geyer / spiral lands / chapter 1
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This amply footnoted collection of black-and-white photographs and texts by the German artist Andrea Geyer investigates and deconstructs the histories of several Native American tribes. Essayist Janet Catherine Berlo writes, "The pleasure of this work resembles the pleasure of travel through an unfamiliar landscape : sometimes arduous, and often filled with surprise and ephiphany."
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