Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens

Nigel Rapport

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English

Routledge
19 February 2018

Theory of architecture; Landscape art & architecture

While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time, created by those who perceive and use these landscapes? What role does the selection and arrangement of plants and hard materials play in this process and just where does the passage of time enter the equation? These questions collectively provide the core material for Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens, a compendium of four landmark essays written over a period of twenty years by leading scholars in the field of landscape architecture. New commentaries by the authors accompany each of the essays and reflect on the thinking behind them as well as the evolution of the author's thoughts since their original publication. Although the central theme of these writings is landscape architecture broadly taken, the principal subject of several essays and commentaries is the garden, a subject historically plentiful in allusions and metaphors. Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens offers the general reader as well as the professional a rich source of ideas about the designed landscape and the ways by which we perceive, consider, react, and dwell within them – and what they mean to us. The essays have been perennial favorites in landscape courses since their original publication in Landscape Journal. Bringing them together – bolstered by the new commentaries – creates a book valuable to all those creating gardens and landscapes, as well as those teaching and studying these subjects.

By: Nigel Rapport
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138473447
ISBN 10: 1138473448
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 19 February 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marc Treib, Professor Emeritus, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

Reviews for Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens

Treib and his trio of scholars offer an excellent excursion through the 'deep real' that underlies the practice of landscape architecture - LANDSCAPES | PAYSAGES Rare books like Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens give us the chance to get out of our ruts and see what more and what better might be possible. William S. Saunders, Landscape Architecture Magazine, June 2012/Vol 102 No.6 An intriguing debate - Ian Thompson, Landscape Research Treib and his trio of scholars offer an excellent excursion through the 'deep real' that underlies the practice of landscape architecture - LANDSCAPES| PAYSAGES