
Beauty Redeemed
Recycling Post-Industrial Landscapes
Ellen Braae(Author)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 2015
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-3-0356-0346-0 (ISBN)
Description
Coping with post-industrial brownfields is an issue throughout Europe and North America. A point of departure for their broad rediscovery in Germany was the refurbishment of an abandoned steelworks from 1990 on by Peter Latz which subsequently became Duisburg Nord Landscape Park. There, industrial relics were not demolished or converted but perceived as integral parts of the overall concept and then imbued with new meaning and use. Many additional projects with a similar approach were created in the past decades, among them Parc del Clòt in Barcelona, Parque do Tejo e Trancão in Lisbon or Michel Desvigne's Parc aux Angéliques in Bordeaux, currently under construction. This book does not only describe a systematic framework for the use of post-industrial ruins it also contextualizes them in design history. The author, professor for landscape design at Copenhagen University, covers a wide range of topics, linking 19th century Romanticism's preoccupation with ruins to industrial decline (exemplified by Detroit) and then on to the subsequent Renaissance of the transformed landscape and its refound beauty.
Reviews / Votes
"Besonders lesenswert sind auch Braaes Analysen zur sich wandelnden Wahrnehmung des Schönen und Natürlichen."brs in: Neue Landschaft 6/2016 "Viel Interessantes und fein Gedachtes findet sich in diesem Werk."sp in: anthos 3/2015 "[...] Beauty Redeemed is a worthwhile read for, as Braae says, "everyone interested in visual and spatial culture, with a liking for ruinous industrial areas."Yoshi Silverstein in: http://dirt.asla.org/2015/08/25/design-thinking-for-a-post-industrial-century/More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
200
50 s/w Abbildungen, 200 farbige Abbildungen
50 b/w and 200 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 27 cm
Width: 21 cm
Weight
1548 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0356-0346-0 (9783035603460)
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
04/2015
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
€99.95
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Person
Ellen Marie Braae, Professorin am Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Universität Kopenhagen