Main entry:

Spirn, Anne Whiston, 1947-

Title & Author:

The language of landscape / Anne Whiston Spirn ; photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1998.

Description:

viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-310) and index.
Prologue: The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek -- 1. "Nature's Infinite Book": The Language of Landscape. 1. Dwelling and Tongue: The Language of Landscape. 2. Survival and Imagination: Reading and Telling the Meanings of Landscape. 3. Artful Telling, Deep Reading: The Literature of Landscape -- 2. "Without Form and Void" to "Heaven and Earth": Landscape Composition. 4. Is a Path Like a Noun, Flowing Like a Verb? Elements of Landscape and Language. 5. Dynamic Weaving, Fabric of Stories: Shaping Landscape Context. 6. Rules of Context: Landscape Grammar -- 3. Using the Language of Landscape: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Polemics. 7. Shaping: Pragmatics of Landscape Expression. 8. A Rose Is Rarely Just a Rose: Poetics of Landscape. 9. Polemical Landscapes -- Epilogue: Reimagining Mill Creek.

Summary:

"This book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn argues that the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound environmental and aesthetic mistakes."--BOOK JACKET. "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, Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lawrence Halprin - and of less well known pioneers, including the Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and the Danish landscape architect C. Th. Sorensen."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300077459
9780300077452
0300082940 (pbk.)
9780300082944 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Landscapes.
Landscape assessment.
Human ecology.
Architecture du paysage.
Paysages.
Paysages Évaluation.
Écologie humaine.
landscapes (environments)
human ecology.
landschap
landscape
landvormen
landforms
milieu
environment
perceptie
perception
Landscape Architecture (General)
Environmental Psychology
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)
Omgevingspsychologie

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200809
Call No.: SB472. S6 1998
Status: Available