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

Contributor(s): Swaffield, Simon R.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Penn studies in landscape architecture.Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002Description: xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0812218213 .Subject(s): Landscape architectureDDC classification: 712.2 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 ethics.
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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 ethics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ethics.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Selections included in the volume: "How to Study Landscape"
  • "Design Process"
  • "Site Planning"
  • "Inventive Analysis"
  • "Form, Meaning, and Expression"
  • "Minimalist Landscape"
  • "Must Landscapes Mean?"
  • "Reading and Writing the Site"
  • "The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture"
  • "Design with Nature"
  • "The Granite Garden"
  • "Principles for Regional Design"

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Simon Swaffield is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand.