John Dixon Hunt

Historical Ground

The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture

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Produktbeschreibung

Historical Ground is dedicated to understanding how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays historical events and narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415814126
• ISBN-10: 041581412X
• Artikelnr.: 39595477

Autorenporträt

John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of more than a dozen books and edits the Taylor & Francis journal Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes and is the series editor of the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preliminary orientations 2. History as geology, topography and weather
3. Examples of history in earlier landscape architecture (Renaissance Rome,
Désert de Retz, Les Buttes Chaumont) 4. Five Paris sites: a scale of
contemporary interventions and inventions 5. History found and exploited in
a specific place today 6. History "invented" for a site today 7. Land Art,
Garden Festivals & historical ground 8. Afterword/Afterlife