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The language of landscape
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Offering examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors--Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lawrence Halprin--and of less well known pioneers, including Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Danish landscape artist C.(...)
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Offering examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors--Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lawrence Halprin--and of less well known pioneers, including Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Danish landscape artist C. Th. Sørensen. She discusses instances of great landscape designers using landscape fluently, masterfully, and sometimes cynically. And, in a probing analysis of the many meanings of landscape, Spirn shows how one person’s ideal landscape may be another’s nightmare, how Utopian landscapes can be dark. There is danger when we lose the connection between a place and our understanding of it, Spirn warns, and she calls for change in the way we shape our environment, based on the notions of nature as a set of ideas and landscape as the expression of action and ideas in place.
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mai 2000, New haven
Théorie du paysage
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Actes du colloque tenu au Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal les 14, 15 et 16 avril 2000. Essais par Christine Bernier, Michel Baridon, Anne Bélanger, Pierre Bonnechere, Thérèse Chabot, Melvin Charney, Danielle Dagenais, Bertrand Dumont, Philip Fry, Catherine Grout, Francine Larivée, Luc Lévesque, Philippe Nys, et Alexander Reford.
Théorie du paysage
septembre 2000, Montréal
Art et jardins : nature/culture
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Actes du colloque tenu au Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal les 14, 15 et 16 avril 2000. Essais par Christine Bernier, Michel Baridon, Anne Bélanger, Pierre Bonnechere, Thérèse Chabot, Melvin Charney, Danielle Dagenais, Bertrand Dumont, Philip Fry, Catherine Grout, Francine Larivée, Luc Lévesque, Philippe Nys, et Alexander Reford.
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septembre 2000, Montréal
Théorie du paysage
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the(...)
Sowing empire : landscape and colonization
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the “nabobs” to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford’s estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette’s ornamented farm, "Sowing Empire" considers imperial relandscaping - its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery - and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance - how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of Vodou threatened authority and created new possibilities for once again transforming the landscape. In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H. Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the “heartlands” of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system - as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities - Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as “European.” Utilizing a wide range of both visual and written sources - maps, literature, and travel writing - this book is interdisciplinary in its methodology and in its scope. Sowing Empire explores how postcolonial and queer studies can alter art history and visual studies and, in turn, what close attention to the visual may offer to both postcolonial theorizing and historically and materially based colonial cultural studies.
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their(...)
Reading zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. Reading Zen in the Rocks, the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form.
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mai 2000, Chicago
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Au sommaire : retour sur une consultation de concepteurs (Frédéric Pousin); la marge et le plein: un lieu de vie pour les tsiganes (Marie-Hèlène Giraud); Du champs de bataille au paysage de guerre (Martin Warne); Des talisman de pierre : les sources ésotériques de l'architecture militaire (Assia Houhou)...
Les carnets du paysage no 5 : printemps/été 2000
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Au sommaire : retour sur une consultation de concepteurs (Frédéric Pousin); la marge et le plein: un lieu de vie pour les tsiganes (Marie-Hèlène Giraud); Du champs de bataille au paysage de guerre (Martin Warne); Des talisman de pierre : les sources ésotériques de l'architecture militaire (Assia Houhou)...
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juin 2000, Versailles
Théorie du paysage
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Ce numéro double des "Carnets du paysage" traite du jardinage en soi, de son histoire récente, de ses mots et de sa pratique en relation avec le paysage. Il s' intéresse ici au processus plus qu'au résultat, à la manière dont le jardinage joue avec notre imaginaire, la littérature, l'organisation sociale et aussi au fait qu'il ouvre des perspectives dans le travail de paysagiste.
Les carnets du paysage no 9 & 10 : jardiner
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Ce numéro double des "Carnets du paysage" traite du jardinage en soi, de son histoire récente, de ses mots et de sa pratique en relation avec le paysage. Il s' intéresse ici au processus plus qu'au résultat, à la manière dont le jardinage joue avec notre imaginaire, la littérature, l'organisation sociale et aussi au fait qu'il ouvre des perspectives dans le travail de paysagiste.
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Although modern wastewater treatment plants are able to treat such pollution their techniques are not applicable to small municipalities, and especially not to private houses. Through precise analysis of thirty examples of wastewater treatment plants located in different European countries and in the USA, the authors demonstrate the benefits of using water plants in the(...)
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janvier 1900, Barcelona
Waterscapes: using plant systems to treat water
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Although modern wastewater treatment plants are able to treat such pollution their techniques are not applicable to small municipalities, and especially not to private houses. Through precise analysis of thirty examples of wastewater treatment plants located in different European countries and in the USA, the authors demonstrate the benefits of using water plants in the treatment of wastewater for all kinds of typologies and communities. The different examples are analysed from a functional angle and as an important element of consideration when planning landscape.
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The highway has become the buyway. Along the millions of miles the public travels, advertisers spend billions on images of cola, cars, vodka, fast food, and swimming pools that blur past us, catching our fleeting attention and turning the landscape into a corridor of commerce. A smart, succinct, and visually compelling history of the billboard in America, Buyways traces(...)
Buyways : billboards, automobiles and the american landscape
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The highway has become the buyway. Along the millions of miles the public travels, advertisers spend billions on images of cola, cars, vodka, fast food, and swimming pools that blur past us, catching our fleeting attention and turning the landscape into a corridor of commerce. A smart, succinct, and visually compelling history of the billboard in America, Buyways traces how the outdoor advertising industry changed the face of American commercialism. Taking us from itinerant bill-stickers of circus posters in the 19th century to the blinking, beeping, 3-D eyesores of today, Gudis argues that roadside advertising has turned the landscape itself into a commodity to be bought and sold as advertising space.
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Gilles Clément, le plus célèbre paysagiste français, inventeur du jardin en mouvement, grand voyageur et écrivain, a choisi de nous raconter l'histoire de quelques-unes de ces plantes exotiques que nous retrouvons aujourd'hui dans nos jardins
Éloge des vagabondes : herbes, arbres et fleurs à la conquête du monde
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Gilles Clément, le plus célèbre paysagiste français, inventeur du jardin en mouvement, grand voyageur et écrivain, a choisi de nous raconter l'histoire de quelques-unes de ces plantes exotiques que nous retrouvons aujourd'hui dans nos jardins
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Fruit du travail de deux cents générations d’hommes, le paysage français reflète les transformations incessantes que l’homme a apporté à son environnement depuis la Préhistoire. Du premier champ aux déboires de l’agriculture intensive et du démembrement, des villages danubiens aux villes "banalisées" du XXIe siècle, le territoire français n’a émergé que progressivement,(...)
Histoire du paysage français de la préhistoire à nos jours
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Fruit du travail de deux cents générations d’hommes, le paysage français reflète les transformations incessantes que l’homme a apporté à son environnement depuis la Préhistoire. Du premier champ aux déboires de l’agriculture intensive et du démembrement, des villages danubiens aux villes "banalisées" du XXIe siècle, le territoire français n’a émergé que progressivement, dans une diversité qui est le fruit, non seulement de la Nature, mais plus encore de la Culture. Ce livre est devenu un classique de la géographie historique depuis sa première parution en 1983, tant par son approche originale de l’histoire de France que par le caractère engagé de ses réflexions. Dans cette nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, le géographe Jean-Robert Pitte livre des clefs pour la compréhension de notre environnement et affirme la centralisé de l’aménagement du paysage dans la naissance et le développement de l’identité française. (42 cartes, 45 illustrations hors-texte.)
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