Title & Author:

Theory in landscape architecture : a reader / edited by Simon Swaffield.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002.

Description:

xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Simon Swaffield -- Part I. The nature of theory in landscape architecture -- Landscape for living (1950) / Garrett Eckbo -- How to study landscape (1980) / J.B. Jackson -- Origins of theory (1990) / James Corner -- Theory in crisis (1991) / James Corner -- Situating modern landscape architecture (1992) / Elizabeth Meyer -- Part II. Design process -- Design process (1950) / Hideo Sasaki -- The art of site planning (1984) / Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack -- An ecological method (1967) / Ian McHarg -- The RSVP cycles (1969) / Lawrence Halprin -- Community design (1974) / Randolph Hester, Jr. -- Site design (1984) / Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack -- Creative risk taking (1983) / Steven Krog -- The obligation of invention (1998) / Bernard Lassus -- Part III. Form, meaning, and experience -- Form, meaning, and expression (1988) / Laurie Olin -- The landscape of man (1987) / Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe -- New lives, new landscapes (1970) / Nan Fairbrother -- Cubist space, volumetric space (1988) / Patrick Condon -- Minimalist landscape (1997) / Peter Walker -- Must landscapes mean? (1995) / Marc Treib -- Place reclamation (1993) / Edward Relph -- Three dimensions of meaning (1994) / Robert Thayer -- Systems, signs, and sensibilities (1987) / Catherine Howett -- De/re/in[form]ing landscape (1991) / Peter Jacobs -- Part IV. Society, language, and the representation of landscape -- Language of landscape (1998) / Ann Whiston Spirn -- The hermeneutic landscape (1991) / James Corner -- Reading and writing the site (1992) / John Dixon Hunt -- Landscape narratives (1998) / Matthew Potteiger and Jamie Purinton -- Representation and landscape (1992) / James Corner -- Landscape as cultural product (1984) / Denis Cosgrove -- The expanded field of landscape architecture (1997) / Elizabeth Meyer -- Part V. Ecological design and the aesthetics of sustainability -- Design with nature (1969) / Ian McHarg -- The granite garden (1984) / Ann Whiston Spirn -- An ecological approach (1982) / Alan Ruff -- Design for human ecosystems (1985) / John T. Lyle -- Can floating seeds make deep forms? (1991) / John T. Lyle -- Gray world, green heart (1994) / Robert Thayer -- Messy ecosystems, orderly frames (1995) / Joan Iverson Nassauer -- Part VI . Integrating site, place, and region -- Principles for regional design (1990) / Michael Hough -- Signature-based landscape design (1997) / Joan Woodward -- Gardens from region (1990) / Terry Harkness -- Infrastructure as landscape (1996) / Gary Strang -- Conclusion: the theoretical terrain of landscape architecture / Simon Swaffield.

Summary:

"Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures, Theory in Landscape Architecture reminds readers that the discipline of landscape architecture can be both practical and formally challenging. Covering the past fifty years of theory, this primer makes an important contribution to a student's emerging professional ethic"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780812218213 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0812218213 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
landscape architecture (discipline)
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Landschaftsplanung
Aufsatzsammlung
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Theorieën.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Swaffield, Simon R., editor.
Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230599
Call No.: SB472 .T44 2002
Status: Available