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Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on Landscapes and Gardens book cover

1st Edition

Settings and Stray Paths Writings on Landscapes and Gardens

By Marc Treib Copyright 2005
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

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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Marc Treib

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