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A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
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April 2005, Pittsburgh
City, country, empire : landscapes in environmental history
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A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
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Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with(...)
Sacred gardens and landscapes : ritual and agency
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Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with the netherworld; as journeys through mystical lands; and as a means of establishing a sense of locality, metaphorically rooting the dweller's own identity in a well-defined part of the material world. Each section of this book is devoted to one of these forms of agency. Together the essays reveal a profound cultural significance of gardens previously overlooked by studies of garden styles.
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March 2007, Washington, D.C., Cambridge
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Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean have in fact made significant contributions to cultural change. This book demonstrates methods and the striking results of garden reception studies. The first section explores how(...)
Performance and appropriation : profane rituals in gardens and landscapes
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Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean have in fact made significant contributions to cultural change. This book demonstrates methods and the striking results of garden reception studies. The first section explores how cultural changes occur, and devotes chapters to public landscapes in the Netherlands, seventeenth-century Parisian gardens, Freemason gardens in Tuscany, nineteenth-century Scottish kitchen gardens, and the public parks of Edo and modern Tokyo. The second part provides striking examples of construction of self in vernacular gardens in Guadeloupe and American Japanese-style gardens in California. Finally, the third section analyzes struggles for political change in gardens of Yuan China and modern Britain.
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March 2007, Washington, D.C., Cambridge
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The present renewal of garden art demands a new approach to garden aesthetics. This book considers exceptional creations around the world and proposes new forms of garden experience. Using a variety of critical perspectives, the authors demonstrate a renewal of garden design and new directions for garden aesthetics, analyzing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy(...)
Contemporary garden aesthetics, creations and interpretations
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The present renewal of garden art demands a new approach to garden aesthetics. This book considers exceptional creations around the world and proposes new forms of garden experience. Using a variety of critical perspectives, the authors demonstrate a renewal of garden design and new directions for garden aesthetics, analyzing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.), Dieter Kienast (Switzerland), Bernard Lassus (France), and Mohammed Shaheer (India). The first half of the volume begins with an argument for a return to John Dewey's focus on "Art as Experience", while the second half concludes with a debate on the respective roles of cognition and the senses, and of science and the visual arts.
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March 2007, Washington, D.C., Cambridge
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From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits. Far from a mere trade, horticulture profoundly affected Jewish and Persian mystical poetry and caused deep changes in Ottoman arts. It(...)
Botanical progress, horticultual innovations and cultural changes
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From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits. Far from a mere trade, horticulture profoundly affected Jewish and Persian mystical poetry and caused deep changes in Ottoman arts. It contributed to economic and political changes in Judea, Al Andalus, Japan, Yuan China, early modern Mexico, Europe, and the United States. This book explores the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and concludes with a reflection on the future of horticulture in the present context of widespread environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.
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March 2007, Washington, D.C., Cambridge
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Grant Jones, founding principal of the noted landscape architecture firm Jones – Jones, has practiced ecological design for more than 30 years and has been a pioneer in river planning, scenic highway design, zoo design, and landscape aesthetics. The latest addition to our successful Source Books in Landscape Architecture series, Grant Jones/Jones – Jones ILARIS, focuses(...)
Grant Jones / Jones & Jones Ilaris : the puget sound plan
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Grant Jones, founding principal of the noted landscape architecture firm Jones – Jones, has practiced ecological design for more than 30 years and has been a pioneer in river planning, scenic highway design, zoo design, and landscape aesthetics. The latest addition to our successful Source Books in Landscape Architecture series, Grant Jones/Jones – Jones ILARIS, focuses on Jones's "green print" plan for Puget Sound in Washington State. Working in collaboration with the Trust for Public Lands and using new GIS technology, Jones – Jones developed the software tool ILARIS. This CAD-like tool helps to evaluate the aesthetic resources of landscape regions and is used as a basis for future planning. The Puget Sound model can be applied to other landscapes at risk. Including an interview with Grant Jones, critical essays discussing his work, as well as numerous diagrams, plans, and photographs, Grant Jones/Jones – Jones ILARIS is a thorough study of an important project.
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July 2007, New York
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L'expression "Territoires équivoques", le titre de ce deuxième volume de la série Jeunes Architectures, n'est pas sans évoquer la dimension transnationale d'Artgineering. Aglaée Degros est belge. Stefan Bendiks est allemand, Leur agence, installée à Rotterdam dans un rez-de-jardin à deux pas de l'Institut Néerlandais d'Architecture (NAi), conçoit des projets destinés aux(...)
Artgineering- territoires équivoques/ blurred boundaries
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L'expression "Territoires équivoques", le titre de ce deuxième volume de la série Jeunes Architectures, n'est pas sans évoquer la dimension transnationale d'Artgineering. Aglaée Degros est belge. Stefan Bendiks est allemand, Leur agence, installée à Rotterdam dans un rez-de-jardin à deux pas de l'Institut Néerlandais d'Architecture (NAi), conçoit des projets destinés aux Pays-Bas, mais également à la Wallonie et à la Flandre. C'est toutefois à la spécificité de la pratique d'Artgineering que renvoie ce,"Territoires équivoques", Comme l'annonce le nom même de l'agence, cette pratique que l'on pourrait qualifier un peu rapidement de transversale, met à mal l'acception communément admise de la figure de l'architecte et déborde largement du cadre de prédilection traditionnel de l'architecture. Entre urbanisme, intervention artistique, marketing et consultance, le travail d'Artgineering se déploie au-delà des limites disciplinaires. Cette pratique "transversale" n'est cependant pas le fruit d'un processus cumulatif qui étendrait peu à peu le champ d'intervention de l'architecte par le truchement de collaborations avec divers spécialistes en réponse aux exigences de la commande ou par opportunisme stratégique, Ce qui distingue le travail d'Artgineering des pratiques de nombre d'agences d'architecture s'adonnant au multidisciplinaire, c'est qu'ici, la dimension équivoque est présente d'emblée, dès l'amont du projet et de manière exclusive...
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Gilles Clément, paysagiste français créateur du parc Citroën, des jardins de l'Arche et du parc du musée des Arts premiers - quai Branly - à Paris, du domaine du Rayol en Provence et du jardin de l'abbaye de Valloires en Picardie, parmi beaucoup d'autres, préfère se présenter comme un simple jardinier. Car du rapport vécu et vivant avec la Terre et ses écosystèmes émerge(...)
Où en est l'herbe ? réflexions sur le Jardin Planétaire
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Gilles Clément, paysagiste français créateur du parc Citroën, des jardins de l'Arche et du parc du musée des Arts premiers - quai Branly - à Paris, du domaine du Rayol en Provence et du jardin de l'abbaye de Valloires en Picardie, parmi beaucoup d'autres, préfère se présenter comme un simple jardinier. Car du rapport vécu et vivant avec la Terre et ses écosystèmes émerge toute une vision de bonne gestion mondiale qui passe de la notion de "Jardin en Mouvement" au "Jardin Planétaire" et au "Tiers Paysage". Et l'herbe ? Le regard - et la main - que nous portons sur elle témoigne de notre place dans une biosphère qui nous dépasse et nous submerge souvent, mais que nous avons le pouvoir de détruire.
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Ant architecture
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Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book takes you inside an unseen world where thousands of ants build intricate homes in the soil beneath our feet. Tschinkel describes the ingenious methods he has devised to study ant nests, showing how he fills a nest with plaster,(...)
Ant architecture
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Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book takes you inside an unseen world where thousands of ants build intricate homes in the soil beneath our feet. Tschinkel describes the ingenious methods he has devised to study ant nests, showing how he fills a nest with plaster, molten metal, or wax and painstakingly excavates the cast. He guides you through living ant nests chamber by chamber, revealing how nests are created and how colonies function. How does nest architecture vary across species? Do ants have "architectural plans"? How do nests affect our environment? As he delves into these and other questions, Tschinkel provides a one-of-a-kind natural history of the planet's most successful creatures and a compelling firsthand account of a life of scientific discovery. Offering a unique look at how simple methods can lead to pioneering science, "Ant architecture" addresses the unsolved mysteries of underground ant nests while charting new directions for tomorrow’s research, and reflects on the role of beauty in nature and the joys of shoestring science.
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Nuages, n.é.
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"Nuages" a pris son origine sur un journal de bord tenu du 18 septembre au 18 octobre 2004 sur un cargo porte-conteneurs, le Monteverde, oui, depuis Hambourg joint Valparaiso en trente-deux jours. "Nuages" aborde les relations entretenues entre le jardinier et le ciel. Le climat couvre la planète d'un seul élan, Gaia, la Terre, notre maison qui fonctionne comme un seul et(...)
Nuages, n.é.
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"Nuages" a pris son origine sur un journal de bord tenu du 18 septembre au 18 octobre 2004 sur un cargo porte-conteneurs, le Monteverde, oui, depuis Hambourg joint Valparaiso en trente-deux jours. "Nuages" aborde les relations entretenues entre le jardinier et le ciel. Le climat couvre la planète d'un seul élan, Gaia, la Terre, notre maison qui fonctionne comme un seul et unique être vivant. Nuages est la relation du voyage et du ciel autour d'une figure, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, qui fut le premier à sérier les nuages et à leur donner un nom, le premier à concevoir une liaison intime entre les êtres vivants, les milieux, les climats, l'espace et le temps. Le premier a nous donner les clefs du mécanisme de l'évolution et à en fixer les bases.
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