Title & Author:

Topology : topical thoughts on the contemporary landscape / Christophe Girot [and others] (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis, 2013.
©2013

Description:

333 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color plans ; 22 cm.

Series:

Landscript ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Wilhelm Krull -- How (not) to read this book / Albert Kirchengast -- Landscape theories in transition : shifting realities and multiperspective perception / Annemarie Bucher -- Faith in a community / Gion A. Caminada -- Elegance of topology / Christophe Girot -- Landscape and modernity / Stefan Körner -- Relationship between plants and landscape architectural design : an attempt at repositioning / Norbert Kühn -- "Landscapology" : linking natural sciences, humanities, and aesthetics / Hansjörg Küster -- City is not landscape / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani -- On the freedom of designing nature and the limitations of the arbitrary / Lothar Schäfer -- Sensuality of the engineer / Joseph Schwartz -- Landscapes of nature and art / Martin Seel -- Some selected observations on the work of Peter Joseph Lenné / Michael Seiler -- On designing infrastructure systems as landscape / Antje Stokman -- Function, fiction, form, and feeling on the "aesthetic of pleasantness" in landscape architecture / Wulf Tessin -- Appendix.

Summary:

How can an abstract term like "Topology" become pertinent and effective to landscape thinking today? There is a schism between the way landscape is understood scientifically, either as a normative network or an environmental system, and the way the same place exists emotionally for people. This disparity which prevails in today's landscape calls for a change of approach, both in terms of action and perception. Topology, in this instance, is not confined to the science of continuous surfaces in mathematics, it can pay greater attention to deeper spatial, physical, poetic and philosophical values embedded in a long tradition of designed nature. The strength of landscape topology is that it can weave together and integrate heterogeneous fields of action into a single meaningful whole. It brings disciplines together on a common topological "vellum" capable of improving our understanding of landscape as a cultural construct with all its inherent beauty and strength.

ISBN:

9783868592122 (pbk.)
3868592121 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Girot, Christophe, 1957- editor.
Landscript ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285115
Call No.: BIB 224459
Status: Available