Title & Author:

Recovering landscape : essays in contemporary landscape architecture / James Corner, editor.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.

Description:

xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Recovering landscape as a critical cultural practice / James Corner -- Nature recalled / Marc Treib -- The reclaiming of sites / Sébastien Marot -- Four trace concepts in landscape architecture / Christophe Girot -- Things take time and time takes things : the Danish landscape / Steen A.B. Høyer -- Shifting sites : the Swiss way, Geneva / Georges Descombes -- Octagon : the persistence of the ideal / Alan Balfour -- Liminal geometry and elemental landscape : construction and representation / Denis Cosgrove -- Aerial representation and the recovery of landscape / Charles Waldheim -- Mutuality and the cultures of landscape architecture / Stanislaus Fung -- Eidetic operations and new landscapes / James Corner -- Leveling the land / David Leatherbarrow -- The Amsterdam Bos : the modern public park and the construction of collective experience / Anita Berrizbeita -- Neither wilderness nor home : the Indian Maidan / Anuradha Mathur -- Airport/landscape / Denis Cosgrove (with paintings by Adrian Hemming) -- Programming the urban surface / Alex Wall -- Synthetic regionalization : the Dutch landscape toward a second modernity / Bart Lootsma.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568981791 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781568981796 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781568981772
1568981775

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Landinrichting.
Arquitetura paisagística (ensaios)

Added entries:

Corner, James, 1961-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201693
Call No.: SB472 .R4 1999
Status: Available