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Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn, and crag. Today, this heritage(...)
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Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn, and crag. Today, this heritage(...)
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Thirty-two words for field: Lost words of the Irish Landscape
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Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn, and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic.? In ''Thirty-Two Words for Field'', Manchán explores how Gaelic, a three-thousand-year-old lexicon, has imbued the natural world with meaning and magic, evoking a time-honored way of life, from its thirty-two separate words for a field to terms like bróis (whiskey for a horseman at a wedding), iarmhaireacht (the loneliness you feel when you are the only person awake at dawn), and bladhmann (steam rising from a fermented haystack or idle boasting).? Manchán urges readers to consider the sublime beauty and profound oddness of this ancient tongue that has been spoken in close connection to the land for thousands of years. Told through stories collected from his own life and travels, ''Thirty-Two Words for Field'' is an enthralling celebration of Irish words and a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture, and language.
Thirty-two words for field: Lost words of the Irish Landscape
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Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn, and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic.? In ''Thirty-Two Words for Field'', Manchán explores how Gaelic, a three-thousand-year-old lexicon, has imbued the natural world with meaning and magic, evoking a time-honored way of life, from its thirty-two separate words for a field to terms like bróis (whiskey for a horseman at a wedding), iarmhaireacht (the loneliness you feel when you are the only person awake at dawn), and bladhmann (steam rising from a fermented haystack or idle boasting).? Manchán urges readers to consider the sublime beauty and profound oddness of this ancient tongue that has been spoken in close connection to the land for thousands of years. Told through stories collected from his own life and travels, ''Thirty-Two Words for Field'' is an enthralling celebration of Irish words and a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture, and language.
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mars 2026
mars 2026
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Théorie du paysage
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Sans interactions, pas de milieux humains ; de même, les relations d'interdépendance entre les éléments, les plantes et les organismes assurent leur survie. Il n'est de paysage que pluriel et partagé. Écosystèmes, connexions, symbioses... ce lexique se transpose de l'écologie aux projets des paysagistes à mesure que s'inventent, face à des expériences de dissonance, des(...)
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Sans interactions, pas de milieux humains ; de même, les relations d'interdépendance entre les éléments, les plantes et les organismes assurent leur survie. Il n'est de paysage que pluriel et partagé. Écosystèmes, connexions, symbioses... ce lexique se transpose de l'écologie aux projets des paysagistes à mesure que s'inventent, face à des expériences de dissonance, des(...)
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Les cahiers de l'École de Blois 23 : Paysages partagés
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Sans interactions, pas de milieux humains ; de même, les relations d'interdépendance entre les éléments, les plantes et les organismes assurent leur survie. Il n'est de paysage que pluriel et partagé. Écosystèmes, connexions, symbioses... ce lexique se transpose de l'écologie aux projets des paysagistes à mesure que s'inventent, face à des expériences de dissonance, des gestes de résistance et de solidarité. Paysages partagés : par qui, avec qui, au nom de qui ? Où, depuis quand et pour combien de temps ? Les réponses passent par des expériences de coopération situées, dont l'enjeu est d'apprendre à conjuguer des milieux.
Les cahiers de l'École de Blois 23 : Paysages partagés
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Sans interactions, pas de milieux humains ; de même, les relations d'interdépendance entre les éléments, les plantes et les organismes assurent leur survie. Il n'est de paysage que pluriel et partagé. Écosystèmes, connexions, symbioses... ce lexique se transpose de l'écologie aux projets des paysagistes à mesure que s'inventent, face à des expériences de dissonance, des gestes de résistance et de solidarité. Paysages partagés : par qui, avec qui, au nom de qui ? Où, depuis quand et pour combien de temps ? Les réponses passent par des expériences de coopération situées, dont l'enjeu est d'apprendre à conjuguer des milieux.
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juin 2025
juin 2025
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Dans ce dialogue philosophique et géographique, Augustin Berque et Damien Deville nous invitent à reposer les pieds sur Terre en considérant autrement les territoires dans lesquels nous vivons. Car une géographie fondée sur des cartes froides, par trop quantitatives et qui séparent les individus de leur « environnement », entretient une opposition qui n’a pas lieu d’être.(...)
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Dans ce dialogue philosophique et géographique, Augustin Berque et Damien Deville nous invitent à reposer les pieds sur Terre en considérant autrement les territoires dans lesquels nous vivons. Car une géographie fondée sur des cartes froides, par trop quantitatives et qui séparent les individus de leur « environnement », entretient une opposition qui n’a pas lieu d’être.(...)
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Géographie des mondres à venir
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Dans ce dialogue philosophique et géographique, Augustin Berque et Damien Deville nous invitent à reposer les pieds sur Terre en considérant autrement les territoires dans lesquels nous vivons. Car une géographie fondée sur des cartes froides, par trop quantitatives et qui séparent les individus de leur « environnement », entretient une opposition qui n’a pas lieu d’être. « L’être se crée en créant son milieu. » Rendre compte de cette réciprocité et des liens qui rattachent chaque lieu à celles et ceux qui s’y épanouissent, en utilisant d’autres noms et d’autres représentations, c’est se donner les moyens de veiller sur l’ensemble des milieux terrestres. Du Japon à la France, les deux grands géographes mobilisent les paysages qu’ils ont parcourus et étudiés pour que nous puissions à notre tour porter un regard éclairé sur le monde.
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Dans ce dialogue philosophique et géographique, Augustin Berque et Damien Deville nous invitent à reposer les pieds sur Terre en considérant autrement les territoires dans lesquels nous vivons. Car une géographie fondée sur des cartes froides, par trop quantitatives et qui séparent les individus de leur « environnement », entretient une opposition qui n’a pas lieu d’être. « L’être se crée en créant son milieu. » Rendre compte de cette réciprocité et des liens qui rattachent chaque lieu à celles et ceux qui s’y épanouissent, en utilisant d’autres noms et d’autres représentations, c’est se donner les moyens de veiller sur l’ensemble des milieux terrestres. Du Japon à la France, les deux grands géographes mobilisent les paysages qu’ils ont parcourus et étudiés pour que nous puissions à notre tour porter un regard éclairé sur le monde.
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"The course of water: Fieldnotes from California’s Owens Valley" explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. A stolen river, a dry lake kept wet, Sierra snowmelt, turquoise springs: water takes strange paths in this desert landscape, rerouted by the lives of the people –(...)
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"The course of water: Fieldnotes from California’s Owens Valley" explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. A stolen river, a dry lake kept wet, Sierra snowmelt, turquoise springs: water takes strange paths in this desert landscape, rerouted by the lives of the people –(...)
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The course of water: Fieldnotes from California's Owens Valley
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"The course of water: Fieldnotes from California’s Owens Valley" explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. A stolen river, a dry lake kept wet, Sierra snowmelt, turquoise springs: water takes strange paths in this desert landscape, rerouted by the lives of the people – Indigenous, settler, internee – who have called it home.
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"The course of water: Fieldnotes from California’s Owens Valley" explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. A stolen river, a dry lake kept wet, Sierra snowmelt, turquoise springs: water takes strange paths in this desert landscape, rerouted by the lives of the people – Indigenous, settler, internee – who have called it home.
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septembre 2025
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The ocean as ground
The ocean as ground
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A persistent narrative portrays the ocean as an uninhabited space. However, centuries of commercial trade and an expanding network of infrastructures above and below the water’s surface have long challenged this view, prompting researchers to conceptualise the sea as an urbanised environment. While the sea is a global arena where architecture, ecology, infrastructure, and(...)
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A persistent narrative portrays the ocean as an uninhabited space. However, centuries of commercial trade and an expanding network of infrastructures above and below the water’s surface have long challenged this view, prompting researchers to conceptualise the sea as an urbanised environment. While the sea is a global arena where architecture, ecology, infrastructure, and(...)
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The ocean as ground
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A persistent narrative portrays the ocean as an uninhabited space. However, centuries of commercial trade and an expanding network of infrastructures above and below the water’s surface have long challenged this view, prompting researchers to conceptualise the sea as an urbanised environment. While the sea is a global arena where architecture, ecology, infrastructure, and politics intersect, its spatial dynamics remain largely uncharted. In a time of planetary urbanisation, ''The Ocean as Ground: An Offshore Theory on Urbanisation'' explores oceans as urban spaces by unveiling forgotten histories, projects, and narratives. How might we understand land urbanisation starting from the oceans? Through the conceptual lens of “ground”, the book invites readers to rethink how we perceive, design, and inhabit the spaces of both land and sea.
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A persistent narrative portrays the ocean as an uninhabited space. However, centuries of commercial trade and an expanding network of infrastructures above and below the water’s surface have long challenged this view, prompting researchers to conceptualise the sea as an urbanised environment. While the sea is a global arena where architecture, ecology, infrastructure, and politics intersect, its spatial dynamics remain largely uncharted. In a time of planetary urbanisation, ''The Ocean as Ground: An Offshore Theory on Urbanisation'' explores oceans as urban spaces by unveiling forgotten histories, projects, and narratives. How might we understand land urbanisation starting from the oceans? Through the conceptual lens of “ground”, the book invites readers to rethink how we perceive, design, and inhabit the spaces of both land and sea.
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avril 2026
avril 2026
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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novembre 2007, Paris
novembre 2007, Paris
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Théorie du paysage
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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septembre 2007, Cambridge, London
septembre 2007, Cambridge, London
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"Sites unseen" challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. Treats landscape as a spatial, psychological, and sensory encounter, opening a new dialogue for discussing the landscape outside the boundaries of(...)
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"Sites unseen" challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. Treats landscape as a spatial, psychological, and sensory encounter, opening a new dialogue for discussing the landscape outside the boundaries of(...)
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mai 2007, Pittsburgh
mai 2007, Pittsburgh
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Sites unseen : landscape and vision
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"Sites unseen" challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. Treats landscape as a spatial, psychological, and sensory encounter, opening a new dialogue for discussing the landscape outside the boundaries of current art criticism and theory.
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"Sites unseen" challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. Treats landscape as a spatial, psychological, and sensory encounter, opening a new dialogue for discussing the landscape outside the boundaries of current art criticism and theory.
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mai 2007, Pittsburgh
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"Living systems" surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book redefines the conventional boundaries of landscape(...)
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"Living systems" surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book redefines the conventional boundaries of landscape(...)
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Théorie du paysage
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mai 2007, Basel, Boston, Berlin
mai 2007, Basel, Boston, Berlin
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Living systems : innovative materials and technologies for landscape architecture
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"Living systems" surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book redefines the conventional boundaries of landscape materiality by focusing on growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena. Projects and materials are cross-referenced according to performance criteria, processes, and properties. Each of the 36 international projects and 23 material technologies is presented with drawing details, construction photographs and an analysis of the various complex systems featured, such as vertical growth structures, flood prevention, stormwater infiltration, erosion control, and the integration of digital media. Projects featured include works by West8, GROSS.MAX, Weiss-Manfredi Architects, Field Operations, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vogt Landschaftarchitekten.
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"Living systems" surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book redefines the conventional boundaries of landscape materiality by focusing on growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena. Projects and materials are cross-referenced according to performance criteria, processes, and properties. Each of the 36 international projects and 23 material technologies is presented with drawing details, construction photographs and an analysis of the various complex systems featured, such as vertical growth structures, flood prevention, stormwater infiltration, erosion control, and the integration of digital media. Projects featured include works by West8, GROSS.MAX, Weiss-Manfredi Architects, Field Operations, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vogt Landschaftarchitekten.
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mai 2007, Basel, Boston, Berlin
mai 2007, Basel, Boston, Berlin
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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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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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octobre 2007, Liverpool
octobre 2007, Liverpool
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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.
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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octobre 2007, Liverpool
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Théorie du paysage
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