Title & Author:

Thinking the contemporary landscape / Christophe Girot and Dora Imhof, editors.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2016]
©2017

Description:

287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Landscape reframed. In the mood for landscape / Vitoria Di Palma ; Land as infrastructure for living / Saskia Sassen ; Denaturalizing the American landscape / Emily Eliza Scott -- False nature? / Susan Ahn and Regine Keller ; The landscapes of airport transfer / Sonja Dümpelmann ; Thinking landscape as urbanism / Charles Waldheim ; Utterly urban / Jörg Rekittke -- Landscape composed. The thick and the thin of it / James Corner ; Breaking ground : a return to topology / Christophe Girot ; Land movement / Kathryn Gustafson ; Think like a king, act like a peasant : the power of a landscape architect and some personal experience / Kongjian Yu ; Nexus : science, memory, strategy / Kristina Hill -- Landscape rethought. Not anywhere, not only here / David Leatherbarrow ; Mapping in the age of electronic shadows / Alessandra Ponte ; Dieter Kienast and the topological and phenomenological dimension of landscape architecture / Anette Freytag ; Memory, direct experience, and expectation : the contemporary and the Chinese landscape / Stanislaus Fung ; Landscape as a construct, engineering as a memory / Adriaan Geuze.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2017

ISBN:

9781616895204 (alk. paper)
1616895209 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape architecture Philosophy.
Landscapes Philosophy.
Landscape assessment.
Architecture du paysage Philosophie.
Paysages Philosophie.
Paysages Évaluation.

Added entries:

Girot, Christophe, 1957- editor.
Imhof, Dora, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293774
Call No.: BIB 238948
Status: Available