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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Penn studies in landscape architecturePublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.Description: xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0812218213
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB472 .T44 2002
Contents:
Introduction / Simon Swaffield -- PART I. THE NATURE OF THEORY IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape for living (1950) / Garrett Eckbo -- How to study landscape (1980) / J.B. Jackson -- Origins of theory (1990) / James Corner -- Theory in crisis (1991) / James Corner -- Situating modern landscape architecture (1992) / Elizabeth Meyer -- PART II. DESIGN PROCESS -- Design process (1950) / Hideo Sasaki -- Art of site planning (1984) / Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack -- Ecological method (1967) / Ian McHarg -- RSVP cycles (1969) / Lawrence Halprin -- Community design (1974) / Randolph Hester, Jr.-- Site design (1984) / Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack -- Creative risk taking (1983) / Steven Krog -- Obligation of invention (1998) / Bernard Lassus -- PART III. FORM, MEANING, AND EXPERIENCE -- Form, meaning, and expression (1988) / Laurie Olin -- Landscape of man (1987) / Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe -- New lives, new landscapes (1970) / Nan Fairbrother -- Cubist space, volumetric space (1988) / Patrick Condon -- Minimalist landscape (1997) / Peter Walker -- Must landscapes mean? (1995) / Marc Treib -- Place reclamation (1993) / Edward Relph -- Three dimensions of meaning (1994) / Robert Thayer -- Systems, signs, and sensibilities (1987) / Catherine Howett -- De/re/in[form]ing landscape (1991) / Peter Jacobs -- PART IV. SOCIETY, LANGUAGE, AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LANDSCAPE -- Language of landscape (1998) / Ann Whiston Spirn -- Hermeneutic landscape (1991) / James Corner -- Reading and writing the site (1992) / John Dixon Hunt -- Landscape narratives (1998) / Matthew Potteiger, Jamie Purinton -- Representation and landscape (1992) / James Corner -- Landscape as cultural product (1984) / Denis Cosgrove -- Expanded field of landscape architecture (1997) / Elizabeth Meyer -- PART V. ECOLOGICAL DESIGN AND THE AESTHETICS OF SUSTAINABILITY -- Design with nature (1969) / Ian McHarg -- Granite garden (1984) / Ann Whiston Spirn -- Ecological approach (1982) / Alan Ruff -- Design for human ecosystems (1985) / John T. Lyle -- Can floating seeds make deep forms? (1991) / John T. Lyle -- Gray world, green heart (1994) / Robert Thayer -- Messy ecosystems, orderly frames (1995) / Joan Iverson Nassauer -- PART VI . INTEGRATING SITE, PLACE, AND REGION -- Principles for regional design (1990) / Michael Hough -- Signature-based landscape design (1997) / Joan Woodward -- Gardens from region (1990) / Terry Harkness -- Infrastructure as landscape (1996) / Gary Strang -- Conclusion: the theoretical terrain of landscape architecture / Simon Swaffield.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Simon Swaffield -- PART I. THE NATURE OF THEORY IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape for living (1950) / Garrett Eckbo -- How to study landscape (1980) / J.B. Jackson -- Origins of theory (1990) / James Corner -- Theory in crisis (1991) / James Corner -- Situating modern landscape architecture (1992) / Elizabeth Meyer -- PART II. DESIGN PROCESS -- Design process (1950) / Hideo Sasaki -- Art of site planning (1984) / Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack -- Ecological method (1967) / Ian McHarg -- RSVP cycles (1969) / Lawrence Halprin -- Community design (1974) / Randolph Hester, Jr.-- Site design (1984) / Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack -- Creative risk taking (1983) / Steven Krog -- Obligation of invention (1998) / Bernard Lassus -- PART III. FORM, MEANING, AND EXPERIENCE -- Form, meaning, and expression (1988) / Laurie Olin -- Landscape of man (1987) / Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe -- New lives, new landscapes (1970) / Nan Fairbrother -- Cubist space, volumetric space (1988) / Patrick Condon -- Minimalist landscape (1997) / Peter Walker -- Must landscapes mean? (1995) / Marc Treib -- Place reclamation (1993) / Edward Relph -- Three dimensions of meaning (1994) / Robert Thayer -- Systems, signs, and sensibilities (1987) / Catherine Howett -- De/re/in[form]ing landscape (1991) / Peter Jacobs -- PART IV. SOCIETY, LANGUAGE, AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LANDSCAPE -- Language of landscape (1998) / Ann Whiston Spirn -- Hermeneutic landscape (1991) / James Corner -- Reading and writing the site (1992) / John Dixon Hunt -- Landscape narratives (1998) / Matthew Potteiger, Jamie Purinton -- Representation and landscape (1992) / James Corner -- Landscape as cultural product (1984) / Denis Cosgrove -- Expanded field of landscape architecture (1997) / Elizabeth Meyer -- PART V. ECOLOGICAL DESIGN AND THE AESTHETICS OF SUSTAINABILITY -- Design with nature (1969) / Ian McHarg -- Granite garden (1984) / Ann Whiston Spirn -- Ecological approach (1982) / Alan Ruff -- Design for human ecosystems (1985) / John T. Lyle -- Can floating seeds make deep forms? (1991) / John T. Lyle -- Gray world, green heart (1994) / Robert Thayer -- Messy ecosystems, orderly frames (1995) / Joan Iverson Nassauer -- PART VI . INTEGRATING SITE, PLACE, AND REGION -- Principles for regional design (1990) / Michael Hough -- Signature-based landscape design (1997) / Joan Woodward -- Gardens from region (1990) / Terry Harkness -- Infrastructure as landscape (1996) / Gary Strang -- Conclusion: the theoretical terrain of landscape architecture / Simon Swaffield.

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