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Historical Ground: The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture by John Dixon Hunt (Paperback, 2014)
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Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism's neglect of history, these essays by John Dixon Hunt explore how, in fact, designers do attach importance to how a location manifests its past. The process involves, on the one hand, registering how geography, topography and climate determine design and, on the other, how history discovered or even created for a site can structure its design and its reception. History can be evident, exploited, invented or feigned - it can be original or a new history which becomes part of how we view a place. Landscapes discussed in this book come from across Europe and the United States, highlighting the work of designers who have drawn from site history in their design, or have purposefully created their own historical account of the location. The author explores t just the historical past, but how new ground can be given a life and a future.Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-100415814138
ISBN-139780415814133
eBay Product ID (ePID)183178517
Product Key Features
Number of Pages184 Pages
Publication NameHistorical Ground : the Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
SubjectArchitecture
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArchitecture
AuthorJohn Dixon Hunt
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.3 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
Height234mm
Width156mm
Weight317g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication10/02/2014
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Place of PublicationLondon
Spine13mm
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
GenreArchitecture
Author BiographyJohn Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of more than a dozen books and edits the Taylor & Francis journal Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes and is the series editor of the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture.
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