The Language of Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language of Landscape write by Anne Whiston Spirn. This book was released on 1998-01-01. The Language of Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, argues that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound aesthetic and environmental mistakes. Offering examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors--Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lawrence Halprin--and of less well known pioneers, including Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Danish landscape artist C. Th. Sørensen. She discusses instances of great landscape designers using landscape fluently, masterfully, and sometimes cynically. And, in a probing analysis of the many meanings of landscape, Spirn shows how one person's ideal landscape may be another's nightmare, how Utopian landscapes can be dark. There is danger when we lose the connection between a place and our understanding of it, Spirn warns, and she calls for change in the way we shape our environment, based on the notions of nature as a set of ideas and landscape as the expression of action and ideas in place.
Landscape in Language
Landscape in Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape in Language write by David M. Mark. This book was released on 2011. Landscape in Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. -- Back cover.
Foundations of Landscape Architecture
Foundations of Landscape Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foundations of Landscape Architecture write by Norman Booth. This book was released on 2011-11-15. Foundations of Landscape Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users' varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate functional requirements for optimal enjoyment. Foundations of Landscape Architecture introduces the foundational concepts needed to effectively integrate space and form in landscape design. With over five hundred hand-rendered and digital drawings, as well as photographs, Foundations of Landscape Architecture illustrates the importance of spatial language. It introduces concepts, typologies, and rudimentary principles of form and space. Including designs for projects such as parks, campuses, and memorials, this text provides the core concepts necessary for designers to shape functional landscapes. Additionally, chapters discuss organizational and spatial design structures based on orthogonal forms, angular forms, and circular forms. Helping students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike, Foundations of Landscape Arch-itecture delivers a concrete understanding of landscape architectural design to inspire one's imagination for countless types of projects.
What Is Landscape?
What Is Landscape? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Is Landscape? write by John R. Stilgoe. This book was released on 2015-10-09. What Is Landscape? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.
Home Ground
Home Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Home Ground write by Barry Lopez. This book was released on 2011-04-14. Home Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is available to an entire new segment of readers. Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic, personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Home Ground includes 100 black-and-white line drawings by Molly O’Halloran and an introductory essay by Barry Lopez.
