Landscape Fascinations and Provocations reflects and builds on the
work of Robert B. Riley (1931–2019), emphasizing his ongoing
importance for landscape studies and landscape architecture. The
title of the volume represents an attempt to distill Riley's
attitude and approach. The book's core consists of fourteen
essays—six seminal pieces by Riley alternating with eight new
pieces by other authors, each relating to Riley's work in a
different way. Riley's singular and important voice survives in his
writing: lean, straightforward, erudite, clever, wryly observant,
provocative, accessible, and dense. His writings reflect his love
of landscapes, his wariness of jargon, and his awareness of
academicians' and designers' potential hubris. His essays reveal a
lifetime of curious probing and reflection, of serious and critical
readings of geographers, anthropologists, psychologists, novelists,
and journalists—as well as designers—on landscapes, their
design and experience. His subjects include specific North American
cultural landscapes; landscapes in literature, memory, and
contemporary media; physical landscapes and technology; and the
garden, nature, and meaning. Reflecting Riley's eclectic,
wide-ranging curiosity and influence, authors of the new
essays—Brenda J. Brown, M. Elen Deming, Rosa E. Ficek, Lewis D.
Hopkins, Rachel Leibowitz, Achva Benzinberg Stein, Linnaea Tillett,
and Vera Vicenzotti—include a cultural anthropologist, a regional
planner, a historic preservationist, and a lighting designer as
well as landscape architects. The book concludes with short
reminiscences, assessments, and appreciations from some of the
people who knew Riley (luminaries such as Michael Van Valkenburgh,
Randy Hester, John Jakle, and Terry Harkness) and felt his
influence as teacher, colleague, editor, mentor, and/or friend.
Landscape Fascinations and Provocations demonstrates the ways in
which Riley's work continues to provoke others in his field to
think and act in directions both new and unexpected.
General
| Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Reading the American Landscape |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Editors: |
Brenda J. Brown
|
| Authors: |
Lake Douglas
|
| Dimensions: |
203 x 229mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-7932-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8071-7932-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780807179321 |
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