Settings and Stray Paths, Writings on Landscapes and Gardens

Settings and Stray Paths

Writings on Landscapes and Gardens

By Marc Treib

List Price: $50.95

ISBN: 978-0-415-70047-4
Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 07/14/2005
Pages: 240
Trim Size: 234X156

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Contents

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

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