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"Artscapes" attempts to show how the artificial landscape produced by artists in collaboration with architects and landscape architects can alter the nature of place, transforming it into a location capable of establishing a more intense dialogue with the user. The sensibility of these artists selects, shapes and colonises the landscape in the reformulation of an(...)
Artscapes : art as an approach to contemporary landscape
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"Artscapes" attempts to show how the artificial landscape produced by artists in collaboration with architects and landscape architects can alter the nature of place, transforming it into a location capable of establishing a more intense dialogue with the user. The sensibility of these artists selects, shapes and colonises the landscape in the reformulation of an ecological consciousness that shifts our attention of its constituent objects towards an awareness and understanding of emerging relationships.
Théorie du paysage
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The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. Today the lawn is one of America's leading "crops," outstripping cotton in acres by a factor of two. "American green", Ted Steinberg's exposé of this phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of(...)
American green : the obsessive quest for the perfect lawn
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The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. Today the lawn is one of America's leading "crops," outstripping cotton in acres by a factor of two. "American green", Ted Steinberg's exposé of this phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of Levittown—just miles from where Steinberg grew up—to the present love affair with turf colorants, leaf blowers, and riding mowers. For half a century, Americans have been on a quest for the greenest, weed-free, ultra-trim turf imaginable. But perfection has its costs. Blending muckraking journalism and social history, Steinberg looks at both the lighter and the darker side of the all-American landscape, from mower accidents and pesticide poisonings to lawnmower racing and the man so addicted to perfection that he re-created Augusta's 12th hole in his backyard.
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Urban parks such as New York City's Central park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the(...)
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novembre 2005, Austin
Rethinking urban parks : public space and cultural diversity
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Urban parks such as New York City's Central park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people. This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City's Prospect park, Orchard beach in Pelham Bay park, and Jacob Riis park in the Gateway national recreation area, as well as New York's Ellis Island bridge proposal and Philadelphia's Independence national historical park, the authors identify specific ways to promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks. They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park "restorations" that focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.
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The landscape architecture conference Mesh, brought together a host of participants, including speakers Edward Bru, Walter Hood, Roel van Gerwen and Kathy Poole who participated under the theme of ‘infrastructure as landscape'. This volume presents a mix of talks, essays, case studies and practitioner's portfolios examining future directions for this discipline.
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octobre 2004, Melbourne
The mesh book : landscape/infrastructure
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The landscape architecture conference Mesh, brought together a host of participants, including speakers Edward Bru, Walter Hood, Roel van Gerwen and Kathy Poole who participated under the theme of ‘infrastructure as landscape'. This volume presents a mix of talks, essays, case studies and practitioner's portfolios examining future directions for this discipline.
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"The aesthetics of natural environments" is a collection of essays investigating philosophical and aesthetics issues that arise in our appreciation of natural environments. The introduction gives an historical and conceptual overview of the rapidly developing field of study known as environmental aesthetics. The essays consist of classic pieces as well as new(...)
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janvier 1900, Peterborough
The aesthetics of natural environments
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"The aesthetics of natural environments" is a collection of essays investigating philosophical and aesthetics issues that arise in our appreciation of natural environments. The introduction gives an historical and conceptual overview of the rapidly developing field of study known as environmental aesthetics. The essays consist of classic pieces as well as new contributions by some of the most prominent individuals now working in the field and range from theoretical to applied approaches. The topics covered include the nature and value of natural beauty, the relationship between art appreciation and nature appreciation, the role of knowledge in the aesthetic appreciation of nature, the importance of environmental participation to the appreciation of environments, and the connections between the aesthetic appreciation of nature and our ethical obligations concerning its maintenance and preservation.
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With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discourse has emerged : landscape urbanism. In "The Llandscape urbanism Rreader" Charles Waldheimhas assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the(...)
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With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discourse has emerged : landscape urbanism. In "The Llandscape urbanism Rreader" Charles Waldheimhas assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field's practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre Bélanger, Julia Czerniak, and more—capture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new field.
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La pensée paysagère
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La pensée paysagère, ce n'est pas la pensée du paysage. Ce livre n'est pas une histoire de la pensée du paysage. Il pose la question : pourquoi cet étonnant contraste entre, d'une part, ces innombrables générations qui n'avaient pas de pensée du paysage mais qui nous ont laissé tant d'admirables paysages, et d'autre part cette génération qui, tout en ne cessant de parler(...)
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La pensée paysagère, ce n'est pas la pensée du paysage. Ce livre n'est pas une histoire de la pensée du paysage. Il pose la question : pourquoi cet étonnant contraste entre, d'une part, ces innombrables générations qui n'avaient pas de pensée du paysage mais qui nous ont laissé tant d'admirables paysages, et d'autre part cette génération qui, tout en ne cessant de parler et d'écrire à propos du paysage, le détruit à grande échelle sur tout son territoire - hormis quelques icônes ? Nous avons une pensée du paysage, mais nous n'avons plus de pensée paysagère, c'est-à-dire cette pensée concrète, vivante et agissante qui s'exprimait par de beaux paysages. Fétichiser cet objet de consommation (touristique, immobilière, académique etc.) qu'est aujourd'hui le paysage, cela ne suffira pas pour retrouver cette manière d'être qui s'incarnait dans la pensée paysagère.
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe’s first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspective—one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not “what he sees before him,(...)
Caspar David Friedrich and the subject of landscape
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe’s first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspective—one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not “what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.” This vulnerability of the individual when confronted with nature became one of the key tenets of the Romantic aesthetic.
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This book reveals the wide variety of possibilities for using water as a creative element in the city, in art, in the landscape and architecture. The works are organized in seven categories and encompass large-scale masterplans, urban plazas and parks, river restaurations but also interior design schemes and art objects. Amongst the works documented are the landscape(...)
Recent waterscapes: planning, building and designing with water
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This book reveals the wide variety of possibilities for using water as a creative element in the city, in art, in the landscape and architecture. The works are organized in seven categories and encompass large-scale masterplans, urban plazas and parks, river restaurations but also interior design schemes and art objects. Amongst the works documented are the landscape design for Dubai Business Park, a river restauration in Bishan Park in Singapore, landscaping for a new town in Tianjin, China, the schemes for Telecom Park, Taipei and Vuores Central Park in Tampere, Finland, and the design for Civic Square Seattle.
The art of the landscape
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In this publication, Raffaele Milani interprets natural landscapes as an aesthetic category. Drawing from philosophical traditions, literature, and art, he calls the reader's attention to a special consciousness, originally established during the pre-Romantic age, that has become a distinctive feature of contemporary spirituality. Focusing on the definition of(...)
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avril 2009, Montréal, Kingston, London, Ithaca
The art of the landscape
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In this publication, Raffaele Milani interprets natural landscapes as an aesthetic category. Drawing from philosophical traditions, literature, and art, he calls the reader's attention to a special consciousness, originally established during the pre-Romantic age, that has become a distinctive feature of contemporary spirituality. Focusing on the definition of landscapes in relation to the concepts of nature, environment, territory, and man-made settings such as gardens and cities, Milani examines the origins of the predilection for natural scenery in the works of landscape painters and in travel literature. He addresses the distinctness of the aesthetic experience of landscapes, analyses the role of aesthetic categories, and explores landscape art as a medium of contemplation.
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