Main entry:

Freytag, Anette, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

The landscapes of Dieter Kienast / Anette Freytag ; with photographs by Georg Aerni and Christian Vogt.

Publication:

Zurich : GTA Verlag, [2021]

Description:

432 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
A slightly revised English translation of Dieter Kienast : Stadt und Landschaft lesbar machen (2016).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. The Nature of the City: Traces v of Kassel and the Beauty of Weeds -- A New Type of Green Urban Planner -- A New Theory of Planning Open Spaces: The Kassel School -- Lucius Burckhardt's Critique of Planning -- Kienast and the Kassel School -- The Third Stocktaking of the World -- The Natural and the Artificial: The Dry Grassland Biotope in Basel -- Sociopolitical Allegories -- Vegetation and Use: The Ecole cantonale de langue francaise in Bern -- New Images of Urban Nature -- Processes of Reinterpretation: The Front Yard and Rear Courtyard for Ernst Basler + Partner in Zurich -- Conditions for Designing Urban OpenSpace: The Garden Courtyard for the Schweizerische Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft in Zurich -- II. Forms of Use: Aesthetic Experience and Coping with Everyday Life -- "Using Open Space Means Coping with Everyday Life": Kienast's First Design for the Grounds of a Housing Development -- Form as the Antithesis of the Natural Garden: The Bruhlwiese Municipal Park in Wettingen -- Transparency and Collage: Making City and Countryside Legible -- One's Own Garden as a Field for Experimentation -- Mourning and the Experience of Nature: Consolation through Beauty as a Way of Coping with Everyday Life -- III. Drawing and Perceiving: Media of Representation -- From Zoning to Designing -- "This Thing We Call Art": Dieter Kienast and the Phenomenology of Postmod-ernism -- Art, Architecture, Literature -- A Vocabulary for the Landscape I: Shaping the Terrain -- A Vocabulary for the Landscape II: Drawing and Representation as Processes for Understanding Topography, Form, and Material -- Mechanisms of Representation: Texts, Photographs, Exhibitions, and Video -- Ten Theses on Landscape Architecture.

Summary:

Dieter Kienast (1945-1998) is a key Swiss figure in European landscape architecture. Amidst a striking change in societal understandings of nature, he sought a synthesis between design and ecology in the 1970s. He designed spaces to make the dissolving opposition between city and countryside legible and to enable aesthetic experience to help cope with increasingly complex everyday life. As a designer, planner, researcher and university lecturer, Kienast introduced new challenges into the discussion of those fields. Critique of urban planning, processes of participation and the significance of spontaneous urban vegetation played just as much a role in these discussions as did art, literature, architecture and the popularity of postmodernism. Anette Freytag's award-winning book, which offers the first and comprehensive critical examination of Dieter Kienast, is now available to an international audience in this English edition. It not only vividly deconstructs how design, theory and representation are interwoven in Kienast's work, but also sheds light on a specific period of landscape architecture.

ISBN:

9783856763879 (hbk.)
3856763872

Subject:

Kienast, Dieter, 1945-1998 Criticism and interpretation.
Kienast, Dieter, 1945-1998
Landscape architecture Switzerland History 20th century.
Landscape architecture Europe History 20th century.
Architecture du paysage Suisse Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture du paysage Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Landscape architecture
Switzerland
Europe

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Aerni, Georg, 1959- photographer.
Vogt, Christian, 1946- photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309328
Call No.: BIB 254600
Status: Available