Settings and Stray Paths
Writings on Landscapes and Gardens
Published on 24. October 2018
240 pages
978-1-136-89999-7 (ISBN)
Description
These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces. Asking essential questions about the nature of order and its perception, this book includes in its impressive scope analyses of both historic and modern works with a geographical distribution that extends across Europe, Asia and North America. With unique depth in many areas of study, Treib brings his expertise to bear on a range of inter-related and mutually influential issues within the subject, taking in an assessment of the lives and contributions of a number of leading figures in the field, the contents of a landscape and the meanings ascribed to it, and a theoretical formulation of the ideas from which or by which landscape architecture is produced.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
13 Line drawings, black and white; 163 Halftones, black and white
File size
9,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-89999-7 (9781136899997)
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08/2005
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07/2005
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01/2005
UCL Press
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Persons
Marc Treib
Content
Introduction 1. Reduction, Elaboration and Yugen: The Garden of Saiho-ji (1989) 2. Traces Upon the Land: The Formalistic Landscape (1979) 3. Inflected Landscapes (1984) 4. The Presence of Absence: Places by Extraction (1987) 5. Formal Problems (1998) 6. Must Landscapes Mean? Approaches to Significance in Recent Landscape Architecture (1995) 7. The Content of Landscape Form [The Limits of Formalism] (2001) 8. Evocative Parallels: Japan and Postwar American Landscape Design (2002) 9. The Measure of Wisdom: John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1996) 10. Looking Forward to Nature: Garretty Eckbo, an Appreciation (2000) 11. Postulating a Post-Modern Landscape (1985) 12. Settings and Stray Paths (1998) Afterword
