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“When walking, or perhaps more rarely when sauntering on horseback, one is in direct contact with surroundings, reifying a connection to natural rhythms. To forget the season, soil, and sky is to deny existence.” So writes landscape architect Roger G. Courtenay in this publication. Whether walking the Piedmont of Virginia, canoeing the French Broad River near Asheville,(...)
My kind of countryside: finding design principles in the land
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“When walking, or perhaps more rarely when sauntering on horseback, one is in direct contact with surroundings, reifying a connection to natural rhythms. To forget the season, soil, and sky is to deny existence.” So writes landscape architect Roger G. Courtenay in this publication. Whether walking the Piedmont of Virginia, canoeing the French Broad River near Asheville, North Carolina, driving along the Blue Ridge Parkway, or exploring Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village, Courtenay turns to his local countryside for inspiration. In this book the author delves into the nuances of his craft, inviting us to share his encounters with a myriad of landscapes and revealing how he then interprets these experiences in his sketches.
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La transformation rapide de nos paysages au cours de ces dernières décennies incite à s'interroger sur l'évolution des relations entre les sociétés et leur environnement. En conséquence, à réfléchir à de nouveaux programmes pédagogiques susceptibles de former tant des gens que des cadres conceptuels capables d'y répondre. Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'un programme européen(...)
De l'enseignement du paysage en architecture
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La transformation rapide de nos paysages au cours de ces dernières décennies incite à s'interroger sur l'évolution des relations entre les sociétés et leur environnement. En conséquence, à réfléchir à de nouveaux programmes pédagogiques susceptibles de former tant des gens que des cadres conceptuels capables d'y répondre. Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'un programme européen d'échange entre l'Europe et la Chine. Textes et résumés en français, anglais et chinois.
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In this walking meditation, forest ranger and writer William Tweed takes us to California’s spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for american national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary facing dramatic changes. Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada’s big peaks and big trees for more than thirty years, has now hiked more than 200 miles along(...)
Uncertain path : a search for the future of national parks
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In this walking meditation, forest ranger and writer William Tweed takes us to California’s spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for american national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary facing dramatic changes. Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada’s big peaks and big trees for more than thirty years, has now hiked more than 200 miles along California’s John Muir Trail in a personal search for answers : How do we address the climate change we are seeing even now — in melting glaciers in Glacier National Park, changing rainy seasons on Mt Rainer, and more fire in the West’s iconic parks. Should we intervene where we can to preserve biodiversity? Should the parks merely become ecosystem museums that exhibit famous landscapes and species? Tweed weaves his experiences along this high-altitude trail together with reflections on the people and ideas that created the parks and on their status and meaning today. Asking how we can make these magnificent parks relevant for the next generation, Tweed’s journey ultimately shows why we must do just that.
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What other post-industrial landscape affords the possibility of being so completely overhauled, from its very soil mix to the edifices erected upon it? In 2009, the IBA conference "Opportunity: Post-Mining Landscapes" addressed these and related themes. Examining former mining sites in Europe, the U.S., Chile, South Africa and China, the proceedings of this conference(...)
Post-mining landscape: Conference documentation
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What other post-industrial landscape affords the possibility of being so completely overhauled, from its very soil mix to the edifices erected upon it? In 2009, the IBA conference "Opportunity: Post-Mining Landscapes" addressed these and related themes. Examining former mining sites in Europe, the U.S., Chile, South Africa and China, the proceedings of this conference demonstrate the fertile opportunities of these landscapes.
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The second volume of the Modern Landscapes series examines the evolution of Pittsburgh's first modern garden plaza. Completed in 1955 from a design by the acclaimed landscape design firm Simonds & Simonds and architects Mitchell & Ritchey, Mellon Square functioned as an urban oasis that provided downtown office workers a much-needed respite from the city's infamous smoke(...)
Mellon square: discovering a modern masterpiece
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The second volume of the Modern Landscapes series examines the evolution of Pittsburgh's first modern garden plaza. Completed in 1955 from a design by the acclaimed landscape design firm Simonds & Simonds and architects Mitchell & Ritchey, Mellon Square functioned as an urban oasis that provided downtown office workers a much-needed respite from the city's infamous smoke pollution. Now, more than six decades later, Mellon Square is undergoing a major restoration by Patricia O Donnell of Heritage Landscapes that aims to restore this urban garden and help revitalize downtown Pittsburgh. Featuring new photography and archival material, Mellon Square is the only book to showcase the development of this iconic urban landscape.
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Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original state indefinitely, viewing any subsequent alterations as unintended effects or the results of degeneration. The ideal is for a piece of architecture to remain permanently(...)
Allure of the incomplete, imperfect, and impermanent: designing and appreciating architecture as nature
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Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original state indefinitely, viewing any subsequent alterations as unintended effects or the results of degeneration. The ideal is for a piece of architecture to remain permanently perfect and complete. This contrasts sharply with reality where changes take place as people move in, requirements change, events happen, and building materials are subject to wear and tear. Rumiko Handa argues it is time to correct this imbalance. Using examples ranging from the Roman Coliseum to Japanese tea rooms, she draws attention to an area that is usually ignored: the allure of incomplete, imperfect and impermanent architecture. By focusing on what happens to buildings after they are ‘complete’, she shows that the ‘afterlife’ is in fact the very ‘life’ of a building. However, the book goes beyond theoretical debate. Addressing professionals as well as architecture students and educators, it persuades architects of the necessity to anticipate possible future changes and to incorporate these into their original designs.
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The Metabolic Landscape navigates the disciplines of art, science and philosophy to picture and interpret the planet?s current state of ?metabolic distress?. Humankind?s search for more powerful sources of energy to sustain an urbanising existence has created an energy transition that, while hugely beneficial to human existence, is now being identified as a source of(...)
The metabolic landscape: perception, practice and the energy transition
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The Metabolic Landscape navigates the disciplines of art, science and philosophy to picture and interpret the planet?s current state of ?metabolic distress?. Humankind?s search for more powerful sources of energy to sustain an urbanising existence has created an energy transition that, while hugely beneficial to human existence, is now being identified as a source of harm. Just as metabolic disease refers to energy-sourced medical problems, so too the planet, the authors propose, is showing increasing signs of metabolic distress.
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Limber: essays
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Angela Pelster's startling essay collection charts the world's history through its trees: roots in the ground, rings across wood, topiaries, wind-sculpted pines, the skinny poplars of her youth in Canada, and a desert in Niger, where "The Loneliest Tree in the World" once grew. In her backyard, a squirrel's decomposing body below a towering maple prompts a discussion of(...)
Limber: essays
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Angela Pelster's startling essay collection charts the world's history through its trees: roots in the ground, rings across wood, topiaries, wind-sculpted pines, the skinny poplars of her youth in Canada, and a desert in Niger, where "The Loneliest Tree in the World" once grew. In her backyard, a squirrel's decomposing body below a towering maple prompts a discussion of the science of rot, as well as a metaphor for the ways in which nature programs us to consume ourselves. Pelster is a writer who looks and listens closely: She watches tree frogs and questions how long we can love one another, she listens to the music of an artist who places paper-thin slices of sectioned tree trunks on his record player and hears the sounds’ mourning. Beautiful, deeply thoughtful, and wholly original, Limber valiantly asks what it means to sustain life on this planet we've inherited.
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L'attitude de flâneur excentrique de Henry D. Thoreau était perçue comme provocation : il n'en avait cure parce la marche dans la nature était essentielle à sa liberté ; elle formait le coeur d'un art de vivre exigeant leurs heures de promenade chaque jour. Elle s'insérait dans son idéal de culture de soi. Marcher s'ouvre sur le ton du plaidoyer sente une lutte : marcher(...)
Marcher & une promenade en hiver
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L'attitude de flâneur excentrique de Henry D. Thoreau était perçue comme provocation : il n'en avait cure parce la marche dans la nature était essentielle à sa liberté ; elle formait le coeur d'un art de vivre exigeant leurs heures de promenade chaque jour. Elle s'insérait dans son idéal de culture de soi. Marcher s'ouvre sur le ton du plaidoyer sente une lutte : marcher pour affirmer sa liberté d'homme, pour ancrer dans l'espace, fuire les villes et les clôtures et mieux penser le monde. Une promenade en hiver est l'évocation nostalgique d'un paysage enneigé du Massachusetts, où la poésie se mêle de fines observations, dignes d'un naturaliste, sur le changement des saisons. La contemplation de l'hiver, loin d'être morne et triste, est source d'une vitalité cachée, stimulante pour l'esprit.
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Landscript 04: nature modern
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This fourth volume in the Landscript series, entitled "Nature Modern", examines the modern conception of nature as a construct, and how it is made "visible" through the built environment, drawing on several key projects and essays.
Landscript 04: nature modern
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This fourth volume in the Landscript series, entitled "Nature Modern", examines the modern conception of nature as a construct, and how it is made "visible" through the built environment, drawing on several key projects and essays.
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