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Is Landscape... ?

Essays on the Identity of Landscape
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Is Landscape . . . ? explores diverse and evolving definitions of landscape, challenging singular interpretations. This collection considers landscape in relation to related terms across various disciplines and professions, offering multiple provisional definitions that question traditional views in landscape architecture. Beginning with the origin of the term, the book features essays by prominent voices shaping contemporary understandings of landscape as both architecture and a wider concept.
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This book is ideal for scholars, students, and professionals in landscape architecture, arts, and cultural studies interested in theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape.

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A new look at landscape theory, debating what landscape truly is.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Is Landscape... ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields.

The publication pursues the potential of multiple provisional working definitions of landscape to both disturb and develop received understandings of landscape architecture. These definitions distinguish between landscape as representational medium, academic discipline, and professional identity.

Beginning with an inquiry into the origins of the term itself, Is Landscape... ? features essays by a dozen leading voices shaping the contemporary reading of landscape as architecture and beyond.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138018440

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 October 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 25 Line drawings, color; 86 Halftones, color; 79 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Edited by Gareth Doherty
  • Edited by Charles Waldheim

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 840g

Pages: 366

About the Author

Gareth Doherty is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Senior Research Associate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research and teaching focus on the interactions between design and anthropology. Doherty is a founding editor of New Geographies journal and editor-in-chief of New Geographies 3: Urbanisms of Color. Doherty edited Ecological Urbanism with Mohsen Mostafavi. Current book projects include, Paradoxes of Green: An Ethnography of Landscape in a City-State and Landscape as Art and Ecology: Lectures by Roberto Burle Marx. Charles Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Professor Waldheim’s research focuses on landscape architecture in relation to contemporary urbanism. He coined the term landscape urbanism to describe emerging landscape design practices in the context of North American urbanism. He has written extensively on the topic and is author of Landscape as Urbanism: A General TheoryΒ as well as editor of The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Citing the city of Detroit as the most legible example of urban industrial economy in North America, Waldheim is editor of CASE: Lafayette Park Detroit and co-editor, with Jason Young and Georgia Daskalakis, of Stalking Detroit.

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