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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn studies in landscape architecturePublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.Description: xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0812218213
  • 9780812218213
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 712.2 SWA 21 20288
LOC classification:
  • SB472 .T44 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Selections included in the volume: "How to Study Landscape"-J. B. Jackson "Design Process"-Hideo Sasaki "Site Planning"-Kevin Lynch "Inventive Analysis"-Bernard Lassus "Form, Meaning, and Expression"-Laurie Olin "Minimalist Landscape"-Peter Walker "Must Landscapes Mean?"-Marc Treib "Reading and Writing the Site"-John Dixon Hunt "The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture"-Elizabeth Meyer "Design with Nature"-Ian McHarg "The Granite Garden"-Ann Whiston Spirn "Principles for Regional Design"-Michael Hough
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 ethic"
Item type: Reference
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Includes bibliographical references and index.


Selections included in the volume: "How to Study Landscape"-J. B. Jackson "Design Process"-Hideo Sasaki "Site Planning"-Kevin Lynch "Inventive Analysis"-Bernard Lassus "Form, Meaning, and Expression"-Laurie Olin "Minimalist Landscape"-Peter Walker "Must Landscapes Mean?"-Marc Treib "Reading and Writing the Site"-John Dixon Hunt "The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture"-Elizabeth Meyer "Design with Nature"-Ian McHarg "The Granite Garden"-Ann Whiston Spirn "Principles for Regional Design"-Michael Hough

"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 ethic"

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