Title & Author:

Nature modern : the place of landscape in the modern movement / Christophe Girot, Albert Kirchengast (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis Verlag GmbH, [2017]
©2017

Description:

239 pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm

Series:

Landscript ; 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Adolf Loos and nature : America, gardens, science, and matter / Marko Pogacnik -- Neutra's nature / Sandy Isenstadt -- Le Corbusier evergreen / Christophe Girot, Patrick Düblin -- Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea : between nature and culture / Richard Weston -- Nature and artifice in the architecture of Sverre Fehn / David Leatherbarrow -- Bruno Taut : landscape as aesthetic substrate / Manfred Speidel -- Mies's organic order / Albert Kirchengast -- Ludwig Hilberseimer's ecological urbanism / Charles Waldheim -- Álvaro Siza : nature and architecture as a living body / Pierre-Alain Croset -- Postscript : Turf wars / Caroline Constant.

Summary:

"Nature is not simply "green" or the "opposite of culture." Essentially, it is an intellectual construct. The relationship between man and Nature, for instance, articulates itself architectonically. Now what could one see as the possible role of Nature in projects of architects representative of the International Style (including successive echoes in postwar modernity), and how does Nature itself only become "visible" through the built environment? Based on key architecture projects, this fourth volume of the Landscript series attempts to instigate a change of perspective. In series of investigations, renowned researchers analyse architecture through the lens of its own inherent understanding of Nature. Their essays try to gain insights both into concepts of Nature in modernity, whose entire range of characteristics have yet to be explored, and into an architecture, whose relationship to Nature is usually only negotiated in disciplines like garden history. How does this finally relate to our present condition?"--Publisher's website

ISBN:

9783868592139
386859213X

Subject:

Sustainable architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Landscape architects.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture durable.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architectes paysagistes.
landscape architects.

Added entries:

Girot, Christophe, 1957- editor.
Kirchengast, Albert, 1980- editor.
Landscript ; 4.

Place of landscape in the modern movement
Landscript 4 : nature modern
L4 : nature modern

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300700
Call No.: BIB 246916
Status: Available