Landscapes of Memory and Experience

Jan Birksted

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781135158804
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

It has been argued that the history of landscape and of gardens has been marginalized from the mainstream of art history and visual studies because of a lack of engagement with the theories, methods and concepts of these disciplines. This book explores possible ways out of this impasse in such a way that landscape studies would become pivotal through its theoretical advances, since landscape studies would challenge the underlying assumptions of traditional phenomenological theory. Thus the history and theory of twentieth-century landscape might not only once again share concepts and methods with contemporary art and design history, but might in turn influence them.
A complementary sequel to Relating Architecture to Landscape, this volume of essays explores further areas of interest and discussion in the landscape/architecture debate and offers contributions from a team of well-known researchers, teachers and writers. The choice of topics is wide-ranging and features case studies of modern and contemporary schemes from the USA, Far East and Australasia.

Index

Note: Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations.

Aa Lake 205

aboriginals 17, 25

absolutism 123n9

Acclimatisation Society 18, 29n41

Acqua Felice 183–184, 184, 195

Acqua Paola 183–184, 184

Acqua Vergine 183–184; Baroque fountains 183–184, 195–196; castellum 184, 185, 199n6; water distribution 186, 187; see also della Porta

Adam, Robert 248, 255

Addison, Joseph 111, 117, 126–127n49

aesthetics: associationism 245; desert 140–141, 147; garden 107; landscape 119, 123n10; picturesque 127n60; postmodern 218

afterimages 101

ageing of architecture 47–51

Alberti, Leon Battista 185, 188, 254

Alison, Archibald 249–250, 252–253

Allard, Émile 95, 96, 97–100

allegory, lighthouses 103n31

allusion, Yuan ye 134

American culture, desert 137–138

American Historical Association 141

Ammannati, Bartolomeo 188

Anderson, Stanford 33

Aqua Virgo 185, 199n4

aqueduct networks 183–187, 195–196; Roman 199n14, 234

Arago, François 88–89

Arcadia 84

architectural competition, Wellington 32–33

architectural elements, Cambridge Camden Society 179n31

Architectural Group: founding of 44n13; New Zealand 38; Strewe 44n14; Wright 35

Architectural Review 19, 33, 34, 35

architecture: ageing 47–51; associationism 250–255; church 180n43; classical 249; entropy 152, 153; Gothic 174, 176; Gothic Revival 164, 176, 178n17; local 33–34; meaning 256; mechanical in 36, 38, 40; Modernism 33, 139, 152; New Zealand 33–34; painting 255; personal in 35, 36; place 53; regional 34, 45n18;...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements for Illustrations
• Landscape between Memory and Experience
• Section One The Site of Memory
• Section Two Vision and Optical Instruments
• Section Three Concepts of Nature and Body
• Section Four Observing, Recording
• Section Five Aesthetic Analysis
• List of Contributors
• Index