Historical Ground - The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	John Dixon Hunt
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-81412-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General
LSN:	0-415-81412-X
Barcode:	9780415814126

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