1 Introduction
2 History of landscape architectural criticism
3 Motives and methods for critique
4 Theoretical overview
5 Theoretical positions: Art and Aesthetics
6 Theoretical positions: Meaning and politics
7 Theoretical positions: Experience and emotion
8 Theoretical positions: Context
9 Theoretical positions: Function and performance
10 Critique of the unbuilt
11 Combining and contrasting critiques
12 Communicating criticism
13 Conclusion
Biography
Jacky Bowring is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand. She is the author of A Field Guide to Melancholy (2008), Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape (2016), and editor of Landscape Review, and explores ideas about landscape architecture through research, critique, and design, including a winning design in journal LA+’s international competition to design an island.
"Landscape Architecture Criticism brings the long-overdue consideration of landscape criticism to the fore. Bowring sees and advocates for the widest possible application of criticism. The book is highly helpful for academics and students of landscape architecture. The book should be of interest to practitioners and designers hoping to enhance the way they look at their work and the work of others." —Landscape Australia
