Reading the American landscape : an index of books and images / editors, Lex ter Braak ... [et al.] ; illustration editor/image editor and selection, Frank van der Salm ; compilation of bibliography, Erik de Jong and Hanneke Schreiber ; design, Irma Boom.
Contributor(s): Braak, Lex ter
| Salm, Frank van der | Jong, E. de (Erik) | Schreiber, Hanneke.
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BookPublisher: Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2009Description: 927 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 30 cm.ISBN: 9789056627034; 9056627031.Subject(s): Landscapes -- United States -- Pictorial works | Architecture -- United States -- Pictorial works | Public spaces -- United States -- Pictorial worksDDC classification: 712 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending | 712 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00158307 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From high-rise to desert, urban sprawl to empty canyons, the American landscape is incredibly various: how does one even begin to take stock of its endlessly proliferating cityscapes and vast horizons? Reading the American Landscape rises marvelously to the challenge. For this anthropological epic, 25 landscape architects, urban designers, visual artists, photographers and commentators on the American landscape were invited by The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture to undertake a journey through the United States, to study and record its history and development. Their study revolved around three themes or types of location: the city park as a social space in densely developed cities; landscapes on the periphery of expanding cities; and the development of large-scale rural areas as exercises in conservation. The writers for this project were each given a bibliography, from which they selected a single title as a starting point for their essays, on subjects ranging from parks and gardens to more general speculations on the unique features of the American landscape. Designed by the much-admired Irma Boom, Reading the American Landscape offers amazing taxonomies of species, sites and structures--from verandas to concert halls, individual plants to entire parks, highways to railroads, indoor exhibition spaces to public sculptures, suburban homes to inner-city developments, desert horizons to secluded gardens, in 6,500 photographs printed in typological grids across nearly 1,000 pages. The contributors to this volume--among them Voebe de Gruyter, Erik Odijk, Frank van der Salm and many others--have assembled what is one of the most broad-ranging and anthropologically adventurous studies of the American landscape ever published.
Includes bibliographical references.
Interpreting American landscapes :the high road and the low road / Timothy Davis -- Tree in the city / Hanneke Schreiber -- Landscape closed :some figures, measurements and remarks concerning the American landscape / Rudy Luijters -- Folklore, festival and history :the Hudson River written and remembered / David Schuyler -- Land art and its power of redefining contemporary landscapes / Fabiana Toni -- Glistening doom / Lex ter Braak -- Without and within :journeying through landscape and interior / Mechthild Stuhlmacher -- The rise of ruins / Huib Haye van der Werf -- Notes on new sublime landscapes in America :new sameness-the inverted sublime / Paula Meijerink -- Chlorophyll :landscape architecture and living material :from hybrid plants to hybrid landscapes / Marit͡te Kamphuis -- A reflective plague organism / Dirk Sijmons -- Drosscape : God's own junkyard revisited : learning from landscapes / Tjerk Ruimschotel --Green fields, orange clouds / Harry den Hartog -- A nightmare on forest lane :dream and decisiveness, power and powerlessness in the history of suburbia / David Hamers -- Why are our parks not where people are? :Jane Jacobs' visionary ideas on the livable city / Anne Hoogewoning -- Looking with one's ears :a reflection on Central Park in the dark (1906) for symphony orchestra, by Charles Ives, inspired by a walk through the park / Jandirk Hoekstra -- A renaissance of created landscape :teardrop park by MVVA Landscape architects / Erik de Jong -- Central Park New York / Michael van Gessel -- The production of estrogenic clouds :a positive side-effect of pollution / Voebe de Gruyter -- Landscape delayed :a 100-day port-industrial experiement / Ester van de Wiel.
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