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 not just the historical past, but how new ground can be
given a life and a future.
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