Part 1 The Aesthetics of Thrift 1. Landscape Practice and Aesthetics 2 The Aesthetics of Thrift 3 Craft Part 2 Principles 4. Trajectories: Landscape Form is Landscape Process 5. Precision 6. Economy of Means 7. Utility 8. Perennial Landscape 9. Elemental Register Part 3 Practices/Strategies 10. Hardly 11. ‘Go to the pine’ 12. Hand and Machine 13. Intervention 14. Abstraction 15. Keep 16. Absence 17. Lucky Part 4 Practices/Elements 18. Green 19. Terrain 20. Water 21. Furnish 22. Dirty, Rotten 23. The Wind 24. The Sky Part 5 Practices/Resolution and Continuum 25. Interplay 26. Raking 27. Soft, rock-hard and evergreen time 28. Do nothing
Biography
Catherine Dee trained in fine art before studying landscape architecture, and today practises both. She is author of Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: a visual introduction (Routledge 2001) and several articles on the relationship between design, drawing and art. She is a founding editor of the Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA) (2006) and creator of its peer-reviewed visual essay section ‘Thinking Eye’. A highly regarded design teacher, she holds an academic post in the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield, UK.






