Relating architecture to landscape /

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Imprint:London ; New York : E&FN Spon, 1999.
Description:viii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4296186
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Other authors / contributors:Birksted, Jan, 1946-
ISBN:0419231501 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Section One. The Modernist Context
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to Modern Gardens (1953)
  • Section Two. Relating architecture to landscape through elements and materials
  • Introduction
  • Time and temporality in Japanese gardens
  • Detailing and materials of outdoor space: the Scandinavian example
  • Playing with artifice
  • Marx's gardens
  • Section Three. Relating architecture to landscape through geometry, form and scale
  • Introduction
  • External interior/internal exterior spaces at the Maeght Foundation
  • A landscape fit for a democracy: Joze Plecnik at Prague Castle (1920-1935) Caroline Constant
  • Tokyo as emblem of a postmodern paradigm
  • The re-invention of the site
  • Section Four. Relating architecture to landscape through collaborations
  • Introduction
  • Hans Scharoun and Hermann Mattern: a collaboration
  • Dimitri Pikionis in situ Dimitri Philippides and Agni Pikionis
  • Landscape architecture: ecology, community, art
  • Section Five. Contemporary case studies
  • Introduction
  • The necessity of invention: Bernard Lassus's garden landscapes
  • The prospect at Dungeness: Derek Jarman's garden
  • Building in Nature
  • Parc St. Pierre, Amiens Sandra Morris
  • List of Contributors
  • Index