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Thirty-six years ago, Nek Chand, a humble transport official in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, began to clear a patch of jungle in order to make a small garden. He set stones around the clearing and before long sculpted a few figures recycled from materials he found at the site. Gradually his creation covered twenty-five acres, consisting of several thousand(...)
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October 2007, Liverpool
The Collection, the ruin and the theatre: architecture, sculpture and landscape in Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh
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Thirty-six years ago, Nek Chand, a humble transport official in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, began to clear a patch of jungle in order to make a small garden. He set stones around the clearing and before long sculpted a few figures recycled from materials he found at the site. Gradually his creation covered twenty-five acres, consisting of several thousand sculptures set in large mosaic courtyards and encompassing huge buildings and interlinking waterfalls. Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery in Liverpool, The Ruin and the Theatre presents this incredible artistic and cultural achievement for the first time—analyzing key aspects of the garden’s collections, its architecture, and the landscape setting alongside beautiful full-color illustrations that pay homage to this modern wonder of the world.
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The dominion of the dead
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and(...)
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn.
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The afterlife of gardens
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Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this(...)
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Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this experience, though determined by the original design and its subsequent modifications, also augments the site's potentialities, and this "afterlife" of gardens comes to enhance the original moment of creation. One way of exploring the experience of designed landscapes is to adapt literary reception theory to the study of gardens. Hunt argues that such an approach via the reception or experience of gardens enlarges how we should understand their significance and meanings. It is generally assumed that the experience of gardens became a prime ingredient of late eighteenth-century landscapes -- picturesque literature especially highlighted how visitors responded to their surroundings, reading inscriptions and recognizing the significance of carefully placed architectural items or fabriqués. But there is considerable evidence for a much earlier interest in how experience came to constitute an essential aspect of a site beyond the intentions of the original designer or patron. Among other early examples, Hunt examines the book “Hypnerotomachia Polifili” (1499) to show how its protagonist is shown exploring and negotiating a series of strange and baffling landscapes. Through other inquiries -- particularly into the role of movement in such different situations as Versailles, and Chiswick or along modern highways – “The Afterlife of Gardens” provides a fresh approach to the study of designed landscapes that goes beyond their production and into how they exist and are understood by their users. In this ambitious new book the author shows how the complete history of a garden must extend beyond the moment of its design and the aims of the designer to record its subsequent reception. He raises questions about the preservation of historical sites, and provides lessons for the contemporary designer, who may perhaps be more attentive to the life of a work after its design and implementation. This book will interest all who have a professional interest in gardens, as well as the wide general audience for gardens and landscapes of past and present.
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January 1900, Philadelphia
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Comment, dans l’Europe moderne et contemporaine, les éléments naturels qui constituent le paysage se sont-ils trouvés chargés de valeurs patrimoniales et nationales ? Quelles sont les figures du discours où paysages et références naturelles servent à dire l’exceptionnalité d’un territoire national ? Comment les acteurs sociaux se sont-ils efforcés d’actualiser, de gauchir(...)
Figures paysagères de la natioin : territoire et paysage en Europe 16e-20e siècle
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Comment, dans l’Europe moderne et contemporaine, les éléments naturels qui constituent le paysage se sont-ils trouvés chargés de valeurs patrimoniales et nationales ? Quelles sont les figures du discours où paysages et références naturelles servent à dire l’exceptionnalité d’un territoire national ? Comment les acteurs sociaux se sont-ils efforcés d’actualiser, de gauchir ou gommer, d’enrichir ou simplifier les composantes des configurations paysagères ? La démarche nécessite une longue enquête qui retrace l’histoire du concept de paysage à partir de son apparition dans la langue française au XVIe siècle puis à ses multiples usages dans l’art, en géographie, en sciences sociales et dans leurs prolongements politiques lors de l’affirmation des nations aux XIXe et XXe siècles.
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Preface by Fritz Haeg. Texts by Fritz Haeg, Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy, Michael Pollan, Lesley Stern, Michelle Christman, Stan Cox, Michael Foti. The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. It was initiated by architect and artist Fritz Haeg on Independence Day, 2005, with the planting of(...)
Edible estates: Attack on the front lawn. A project by Fritz Haeg
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Preface by Fritz Haeg. Texts by Fritz Haeg, Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy, Michael Pollan, Lesley Stern, Michelle Christman, Stan Cox, Michael Foti. The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. It was initiated by architect and artist Fritz Haeg on Independence Day, 2005, with the planting of the first regional prototype garden in the geographic center of the United States, Salina, Kansas. Since then three more prototype gardens have been created, in Lakewood, California; Maplewood, New Jersey and London, England. Edible Estates regional prototype gardens will ultimately be established in nine cities across the United States. Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn documents the first four gardens with personal accounts written by the owners, garden plans and photographs illustrating the creation of the gardens--from ripping up the grass to harvesting a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs. Essays by Haeg, landscape architect Diana Balmori, garden and food writer Rosalind Creasy, author Michael Pollan and artist and writer Lesley Stern set the Edible Estates project in the context of larger issues concerning the environment, global food production and the imperative to generate a sense of community in our urban and suburban neighborhoods. This smart, affordable and well-designed book also includes reports and photographs from the owners of other edible front yards around the country, as well as helpful resources to guide you in making your own Edible Estate.
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Depuis des siècles, les Japonais entretiennent une relation très proche avec la nature, et leurs jardins témoignent de ce profond attachement. Chacun d'eux, qu'il soit dédié à la contemplation ou à la promenade, est le résultat d'un travail de conception élaboré tant d'un point de vue architectural que symbolique. Les premiers écrits japonais sur le thème remontent au XIe(...)
Trois pierres cinq fleurs : petit traité du jardin japonais
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Depuis des siècles, les Japonais entretiennent une relation très proche avec la nature, et leurs jardins témoignent de ce profond attachement. Chacun d'eux, qu'il soit dédié à la contemplation ou à la promenade, est le résultat d'un travail de conception élaboré tant d'un point de vue architectural que symbolique. Les premiers écrits japonais sur le thème remontent au XIe siècle. Le texte fondateur présenté ici date de 1395, époque fortement marquée par le développement du bouddhisme zen; c'est la première fois qu'il est traduit en français. Dans ce recueil de traditions secrètes, on apprend l'art de poser les pierres, celui de construire «l'île du souffle d'en haut» et d'atteindre ainsi «deux bonheurs et trois biens».... Poèmes de grands auteurs japonais et calligraphies de Keiko Yokoyama viennent délicatement émailler cet étrange traité où la science du jardin mêle souvent recherche esthétique et préoccupations philosophiques.
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Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space, parks, housing, and nonindustrial uses. Urban rivers, which once functioned as open sewers for cities, are now seen as part of larger watershed ecosystems. Rivertown examines(...)
Rivertown : Rethinking urban rivers
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Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space, parks, housing, and nonindustrial uses. Urban rivers, which once functioned as open sewers for cities, are now seen as part of larger watershed ecosystems. Rivertown examines urban river restoration efforts across the United States, presenting case studies from Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Oregon; Chicago; Salt Lake City; and San Jose. It also analyzes the roles of the federal government (in particular, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and citizen activism in urban river politics. A postscript places New Orleans's experience with Hurricane Katrina in the broader context of the national riverside land-use debate. Each case study in Rivertown considers the critical questions of who makes decisions about our urban rivers, who pays to implement these decisions, and who ultimately benefits or suffers from these decisions. In Los Angeles, for example, local nonprofit and academic research groups played crucial roles, whereas Chicago relied on a series of engineering interventions. In each case, authors evaluate the ecological issues and consider urban river restoration projects in relation to other urban economic and environmental initiatives in the region. Rivertown is a valuable resource for urban planners and citizen groups as well as for scholars.
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The same landscape : ideas and interpretations / Los mismos paisajes : ideas e interpretationes
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This book brings together a series of essays in which processes and dynamics existing in the landscape are explored. Examples culled from a range of sources, both including and excluding instances of human intervention, have been compiled over a decade of research and observation, and are presented from the perspective of planning and management.
The same landscape : ideas and interpretations / Los mismos paisajes : ideas e interpretationes
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This book brings together a series of essays in which processes and dynamics existing in the landscape are explored. Examples culled from a range of sources, both including and excluding instances of human intervention, have been compiled over a decade of research and observation, and are presented from the perspective of planning and management.
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La sagesse du jardinier
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Toutes les instances, tous les dirigeants, tous les citoyens sont avertis de l'absurdité du mode de vie entraîné par l'économie de marché. Le projet humain, conscient ou inconscient, se définit en peu de mots : mourir sous les richesses. Un jardin : enclos destiné à protéger le meilleur. Meilleur des fruits et des légumes - flore nourricière, diversité exploitée -(...)
La sagesse du jardinier
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Toutes les instances, tous les dirigeants, tous les citoyens sont avertis de l'absurdité du mode de vie entraîné par l'économie de marché. Le projet humain, conscient ou inconscient, se définit en peu de mots : mourir sous les richesses. Un jardin : enclos destiné à protéger le meilleur. Meilleur des fruits et des légumes - flore nourricière, diversité exploitée - meilleur des arbres et des fleurs, de l'art de les disposer. L'art des jardins a exprimé son excellence à travers l'architecture et l'ornement. Ces critères ne suffisent plus. La vie qui s'y développe, parce qu'elle est menacée, devient l'argument principal des aménagements. Cette charge efface, sans les interdire, les préséances d'autrefois manier la perspective, disposer les paysages en tableaux, composer les massifs, organiser les fêtes et les distractions. Regarder pourrait bien être la plus juste façon de jardiner demain.
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The education of the eye : painting, landscape, and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain
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"The Education of the Eye" examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects, two competing descriptions of the viewer or spectator promoted two very different accounts of culture. The first was constructed on knowledge, on what one(...)
The education of the eye : painting, landscape, and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain
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"The Education of the Eye" examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects, two competing descriptions of the viewer or spectator promoted two very different accounts of culture. The first was constructed on knowledge, on what one already knew, while the second was grounded in the eye itself. Whereas the first was most likely to lead to a socially and politically elite form of visual cutlure, the second, it was held, would almost certainly end up in the chaos of the mob. But there was another route through these conflicting accounts of the visual that preserved the education of the eye while at the same time allowing the eye freedom to enter into the realm of culture. This third route, that of sentimental look, is explored in a series of contexts: the gallery, the pleasure garden, the landscape park, and the country house. This book sets out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.
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