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The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture, architectural elements, and landscape, come together. It has a long history, ranging from the paradise garden and cloister, the botanic garden and the giardini segreto, the kitchen garden and the stage for social display, to its many modern forms; the city retreat, the redemptive garden, and the(...)
Captured landscape : the paradox of the enclosed garden
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The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture, architectural elements, and landscape, come together. It has a long history, ranging from the paradise garden and cloister, the botanic garden and the giardini segreto, the kitchen garden and the stage for social display, to its many modern forms; the city retreat, the redemptive garden, and the deconstructed building. By its nature it is ambiguous. Is it an outdoor room, or captured landscape; is it garden or architecture?
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Interlacing words and things : bridging the nature-culture opposition in garden and landscape
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This illustrated volume examines how the natural world is transformed through the creative use of language. Its contributors do not assume that there is an opposition between nature and culture, but rather emphasize that forms of language are embedded in our understanding and appreciation of the natural environment across cultures and time periods.
Interlacing words and things : bridging the nature-culture opposition in garden and landscape
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This illustrated volume examines how the natural world is transformed through the creative use of language. Its contributors do not assume that there is an opposition between nature and culture, but rather emphasize that forms of language are embedded in our understanding and appreciation of the natural environment across cultures and time periods.
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National parks are the places that present ideas of nature to Americans: Zion, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone bring to mind quintessential and awe-inspiring wilderness. By examining how rhetoric - particularly visual rhetoric - has worked to shape our views of nature and the "natural" place of humans, "Observation Points" offers insights into questions of(...)
Observation points : the visual poetics of national parks
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National parks are the places that present ideas of nature to Americans: Zion, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone bring to mind quintessential and awe-inspiring wilderness. By examining how rhetoric - particularly visual rhetoric - has worked to shape our views of nature and the "natural" place of humans, "Observation Points" offers insights into questions of representation, including the formation of national identity.
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Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between 1915 and the mid-1980s. Case studies highlight landscapes in the public realm rather than the private garden, which had been a primary focus of much Western landscape theory and practice during the early decades of the century. These(...)
The modern architectural landscape
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Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between 1915 and the mid-1980s. Case studies highlight landscapes in the public realm rather than the private garden, which had been a primary focus of much Western landscape theory and practice during the early decades of the century. These landscapes do more than accommodate the functional needs of the evolving mass society in parks, playgrounds, and places of assembly; they give formal expression to Modern Movement social and political ideologies, engaging the symbolic potential of the modern landscape—particularly in its ability to take on new, more democratic forms of social organization. Approaching landscape as an essential component of modern architecture’s constructive endowment of material with social value, The Modern Architectural Landscape focuses on the precise material forms and ideological underpinnings of landscapes conceived by architects, revealing them as salient to the formulation of both modern architecture and the modern landscape.
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In Waterfall, Brian Hudson explores the many myths and legends waterfalls have inspired in cultures ranging from Native American to Celtic and Indian, and how they have been depicted in art, literature, film, and music. He also examines their influence on architecture and landscape design, as manmade waterfalls begin to be a staple of parks, gardens, and backyard(...)
Waterfall: nature and culture
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In Waterfall, Brian Hudson explores the many myths and legends waterfalls have inspired in cultures ranging from Native American to Celtic and Indian, and how they have been depicted in art, literature, film, and music. He also examines their influence on architecture and landscape design, as manmade waterfalls begin to be a staple of parks, gardens, and backyard landscaping. Hudson also discusses the ecology of waterfalls and the conflict that arises from their importance as both a source of hydroelectric power and tourist attractions in many countries. As erosion takes its own toll, the additional environmental impacts of human exploitation could be devastating.
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Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. Parkscapes analyzes the origins, development, and distinctive features of these public spaces. Green zones were created by the government beginning in the late nineteenth century for state purposes but eventually evolved into sites of negotiation(...)
Parkscapes: green spaces in modern Japan
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Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. Parkscapes analyzes the origins, development, and distinctive features of these public spaces. Green zones were created by the government beginning in the late nineteenth century for state purposes but eventually evolved into sites of negotiation between bureaucrats and ordinary citizens who use them for demonstrations, riots, and shelters, as well as recreation. Thomas Havens shows how revolutionary officials in the 1870s seized private properties and converted them into public parks for educating and managing citizens in the new emperor-sanctioned state. Rebuilding Tokyo and Yokohama after the earthquake and fires of 1923 spurred the spread of urban parklands both in the capital and other cities. According to Havens, the growth of suburbs, the national mobilization of World War II, and the post-1945 American occupation helped speed the creation of more urban parks, setting the stage for vast increases in public green spaces during Japan’s golden age of affluence from the 1960s through the 1980s. Since the 1990s the Japanese public has embraced a heightened ecological consciousness and become deeply involved in the design and management of both city and natural parks—realms once monopolized by government bureaucrats.
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The road movie 'Easy Rider', Yellowstone National Park, Route 66, Stephen Shore’s 'Uncommon Places' or David Lynch’s 'Twin Peaks'; these random names and places immediately fire the imagination. 'Objects in Mirror' investigates just how deep the American landscape has penetrated our daily lives: in films, advertisement, books and music.
Objects in mirror: The imagination of the American landscape
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The road movie 'Easy Rider', Yellowstone National Park, Route 66, Stephen Shore’s 'Uncommon Places' or David Lynch’s 'Twin Peaks'; these random names and places immediately fire the imagination. 'Objects in Mirror' investigates just how deep the American landscape has penetrated our daily lives: in films, advertisement, books and music.
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Reprise de l'ouvrage paru en 1965 dans lequel l'ornithologue J. Dorst dénonce les effets de l'activité de l'homme sur la biodiversité, accompagnée d'un essai dans lequel le professeur d'écologie R. Barbault souligne l'actualité des positions de J. Dorst et fait un bilan des actions de protection de la biodiversité menées depuis les années 1970.
Avant que nature meure: pour que nature vive
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Reprise de l'ouvrage paru en 1965 dans lequel l'ornithologue J. Dorst dénonce les effets de l'activité de l'homme sur la biodiversité, accompagnée d'un essai dans lequel le professeur d'écologie R. Barbault souligne l'actualité des positions de J. Dorst et fait un bilan des actions de protection de la biodiversité menées depuis les années 1970.
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Une brève histoire du jardin
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Le premier jardin est celui de l'homme ayant choisi de faire cesser l'errance. Il n'y a pas d'époque pour cette étape dans la vie d'un homme ou d'une société. Le premier jardin est vivrier. Le jardin potager est le premier jardin. Il est intemporel car il fonde l'histoire des jardins mais la traverse et la marque profondément dans toutes ses périodes. Le premier jardin(...)
Une brève histoire du jardin
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Le premier jardin est celui de l'homme ayant choisi de faire cesser l'errance. Il n'y a pas d'époque pour cette étape dans la vie d'un homme ou d'une société. Le premier jardin est vivrier. Le jardin potager est le premier jardin. Il est intemporel car il fonde l'histoire des jardins mais la traverse et la marque profondément dans toutes ses périodes. Le premier jardin est un enclos. Il convient de protéger le bien précieux du jardin ; les légumes, les fruits, puis les fleurs, les animaux, l'art de vivre, ce qui, au fil du temps, ne cessera d'apparaître comme le " meilleur ". C'est la façon d'interpréter le meilleur qui, en fonction des modèles de civilisation, va déterminer le style des jardins. La notion de meilleur, de bien précieux, ne cesse d'évoluer. La scénographie destinée à valoriser le meilleur s'adapte au changement des fondamentaux du jardin mais le principe du jardin demeure constant : s'approcher le plus possible du paradis.
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While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer really imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time, created by those who perceive and use these landscapes? What role does the(...)
Meaning in landscape architecture and gardens: Four essays, Four commentaries
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While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer really imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time, created by those who perceive and use these landscapes? What role does the selection and arrangement of plants and hard materials play in this process and just where does the passage of time enter into the equation? These questions collectively provide the core material for Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens, a compendium of four landmark essays written over a period of twenty years by leading scholars in the field of landscape architecture. New commentaries by the authors accompany each of the essays and reflect on the thinking behind them as well as the evolution of the author’s thoughts since their original publication.
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