Main entry:

Leatherbarrow, David.

Title & Author:

Topographical stories : studies in landscape and architecture / David Leatherbarrow.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004.

Description:

288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references pages (257-276) and index.
The topographical premises of landscape and architecture -- Earthwork as framework : or how topography exceeds itself -- Cultivation, construction, and creativity : or how topography changes (in time) -- Design freedom and the laws of nature : or how topography varies (from place to place) -- Leveling the land : or how topography is the horizon of horizons -- Character, geometry, and perspective : or how topography conceals itself -- Architecture and situation : or how topography reveals itself -- The image and its setting : or how topography traces praxis -- Ethics of the dust.

Summary:

"David Leatherbarrow offers a new way of thinking of architecture and landscape architecture. Moving beyond partisan arguments, he shows how the two disciplines rely upon one another to form a single framework of cultural meaning. Leatherbarrow redefines landscape architecture and architecture as topographical arts, the shared task of which is to accommodate and express the patterns of our lives.
Topography, in his view, incorporates terrain, built and unbuilt. It also traces practical affairs, by which culture preserves and renews its typical situations and institutions."
"This argument is illustrated by nearly 100 images, as well as examples of topography from the sixteenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, through the heroic period of early modernism, to more recent offerings.
A number of these studies revise existing accounts of decisive moments in the history of these disciplines, particularly the birth of the informal garden, the emergence of continuous space in the landscapes and architecture of the modern period, and the new significance of landform or earthwork in contemporary architecture.
For readers not directly involved with either of these professions, this book shows how over the centuries our lives have been shaped and enriched by landscape and architecture."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0812238095 (alk. paper)
9780812238099 (alk. paper)
9780812223507 (pbk.)
0812223500 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape design.
Architecture.
Aménagement paysager.
architecture (discipline)
Architektur
Landschaft
Landschaftsgarten
Landschaftsgestaltung
Aménagement du paysage.

Added entries:

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233800
Call No.: SB472.45 L43 2004
Status: Available