Main entry:

Treib, Marc.

Title & Author:

Settings and stray paths : writings on landscapes and gardens / Marc Treib.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Description:

xiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Reduction, elaboration, and Yugen : the garden of Saiho-ji -- 2. Traces upon the land : the formalistic landscape -- 3. Inflected landscapes -- 4. The presence of absence : places by extraction -- 5. Formal problems -- 6. Must landscapes mean? : approaches to significance in recent landscape architecture -- 7. The content of landscape form [the limits of formalism] -- 8. Evocative parallels : Japan and postwar American landscape design -- 9. The measure of wisdom : John Brinckerhoff Jackson -- 10. Looking forward to nature : Garrett Eckbo, an appreciation -- 11. Postulating a post-modern landscape -- 12. Settings and stray paths.

Summary:

These collected works represent 25 years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0415700469
9780415700467
0415700477 (pbk.)
9780415700474 (pbk.)
0203412826 (ebook)
9780203412824 (ebook)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246589
Call No.: BIB 176174
Status: Available