The Palladian Revival

The Palladian Revival
Author: John Harris
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300059830

In 1726, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, built an addition to his modest country house on the river Thames at Chiswick. The structure was a free standing villa, which is the subject of this book. The author explores the villa's architectural inspiration and the evolution of its design.

Palladio, the Villa and the Landscape

Palladio, the Villa and the Landscape
Author: Gerrit Smienk
Publisher: Birkhaüser
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783034607124

Studies the relationship between Palladian villas in the Veneto and the landscape, demonstrating how each was sited to enhance the drama of the overall architectural ensemble.

Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape

Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape
Author: Denis E. Cosgrove
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780299155148

Hailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove's Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape.

Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture

Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture
Author: Simon Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011-02-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136646035

What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disciplines, from domains as diverse as planning and design, the arts and humanities as well as the social and natural sciences, they are all fields of importance to the theory and practice of landscape architecture. In the context of the EU funded LE:NOTRE Project, carried out under the auspices of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, international experts from a wide range of related fields were asked to reflect, each from their own perspective, on the interface between their discipline and landscape architecture. The resulting insights presented in this book represent an important contribution to the development the discipline of landscape architecture, as well as suggesting new ways in which future collaboration can help to create a greater interdisciplinary richness at a time when the awareness of the importance of the landscape is growing across a wide range of disciplines. Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture is the first systematic attempt to explore the territory at the boundaries of landscape architecture. It addresses academics, professionals and students, not just from landscape architecture but also from its neighbouring discipline, all of whom will benefit from a better understanding their areas of shared interest and the chance to develop a common language with which to converse.

The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies

The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Author: Peter Howard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351762923

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for ‘landscape’, a term which has many uses and meanings. It features 33 revised and/or updated chapters and 14 entirely new chapters on topics such as the Anthropocene, Indigenous landscapes, challenging landscape Eurocentrisms, photography and green infrastructure planning. The volume is divided into four parts: Experiencing landscape; Landscape, heritage and culture; Landscape, society and justice; and Design and planning for landscape. Collectively, the book provides a critical review of the various fields related to the study of landscapes, including the future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches, as well as current empirical knowledge and understanding. It encourages dialogue across disciplinary barriers and between academics and practitioners, and reflects upon the implications of research findings for local, national and international policy in relation to landscape. The Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to current thinking about landscapes, and serves as an invaluable point of reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students alike.

Melancholy and the Landscape

Melancholy and the Landscape
Author: Jacky Bowring
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317366948

Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. Implicated in the more formal categories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness. The book proposes a range of conditions which are conducive to melancholy, and presents examples from each, including: The Void, The Uncanny, Silence, Shadows and Darkness, Aura, Liminality, Fragments, Leavings, Submersion, Weathering and Patina.

Economies and the Transformation of Landscape

Economies and the Transformation of Landscape
Author: Lisa Cliggett
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780759111172

Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining, ranching, and farming, affect the environment.

Landscape Theory

Landscape Theory
Author: Rachel DeLue
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2010-10-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135902259

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from many disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art.