To Design Landscape
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To Design Landscape

Art, Nature & Utility

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

To Design Landscape

Art, Nature & Utility

About this book

To Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using the concept of "aesthetics of thrift".Employing numerous case studies-as diverse as Hellerup Rose Garden in Denmark; Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, USA; Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire, UK and Tofuku-ji, in Kyoto, Japan - to illustrate her ideas, the book is a beautiful portfolio of Dee's drawings, which are both evocative and to the point.The book begins with a 'Foundations' section, which sets out the basis of the approach. 'Principles' chapters then elaborate eleven significant considerations applicable to any design project, regardless of context and scale. Following on, 'Strategies' chapters reinforce the principles, and suggest further ways of designing, adaptable to different conditions. Dee ends with a focus on 'Elements', case studies and verb lists providing sources for the designer to consider how the components - vegetation, water, terrain, structures, soils, weather, and the sky - might be engaged, mediated and joined.Catherine Dee's book is for all those who would craft landscape, from the gardener, to the professional landscape architect, to the student of design

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780415585040
eBook ISBN
9781136653650
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Index

Absence 168–169, 173, 177, 188
Abstraction 25–26, 128–130
Action 4–6, 9–11, 25, 37, 81, 179; adaptive 9; collective 7; design 7, 119; ethical 7; material 6; modest 86; responsive 6, 81
Aesthetic 4–5, 8, 10, 69, 98, 154; design 10; experience 4, 10, 49; industrial 69, 247; judgement 4, 6, 10–11; knowledge 129; machine 71; quality 6; practice 4; principle 91; response 11; strategy 153; sublime 68
Aesthetics 3, 11, 69, 81, 119, 179; conduit for 11, 81, 179; formal 9, 129–130
Aesthetics of Thrift 3–5, 10–11, 81
Agriculture 59, 69, 131, 247
Alhambra 134
Arboriculture 69
Archetypal 25; landscape 26
Archetype 26
Architecture 66, 88, 239
Art 3–4, 8, 10–11, 26, 36–37, 51, 69, 80–81, 98–99, 149, 157; installation 150
Artist 39, 112, 133, 149, 153, 237, 248, 252
Artistic 3, 8, 10, 101, 130, 153, 169; practice 10; response 10
Authorship 81
Avenue 49, 130, 198, 219, 244, 258
Bacon, Francis 179
Beauty 10–11, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Contents
  8. Foundations
  9. 1 To design landscape
  10. 2 Craft
  11. 3 Form
  12. 4 The aesthetics of thrift: art, nature and utility
  13. Principles
  14. 5 Sculpting time
  15. 6 All possible forms
  16. 7 Nature, culture, both
  17. 8 Soft, rock-hard and evergreen time
  18. 9 Elemental register
  19. 10 Hand and machine
  20. 11 Modesty and ingenuity in art
  21. 12 Economy of means
  22. 13 Utilitarian form
  23. 14 Context is everything
  24. 15 Raking
  25. Strategies
  26. 16 Abstraction
  27. 17 Hardly
  28. 18 Intervention
  29. 19 Keep
  30. 20 Absence
  31. 21 Lucky
  32. 22 Interplay
  33. Elements
  34. 23 Green
  35. 24 Terrain
  36. 25 Wet
  37. 26 Furnish
  38. 27 Dirty, rotten
  39. 28 Wind
  40. 29 Sky
  41. Bibliography
  42. Case studies listed by designer
  43. Case studies listed by site
  44. Index