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Doing Almost Nothing - The Landscapes of Georges Descombes (Hardcover)
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Doing Almost Nothing - The Landscapes of Georges Descombes (Hardcover)
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Until now, writings about the architect/landscape architect Georges
Descombes have been relatively limited, appearing primarily in
publications in Switzerland and abroad as conversations,
interviews, and conference proceedings; most of them have appeared
only in French. However, during his forty years of practice,
Descombes has developed and applied a method unique to landscape
architecture, one in which an extremely broad vision, both
scientifically and culturally, shapes his thinking and projects.
Descombes enters each project by attempting to understand the
existing conditions on site and how, using minimal means and
interventions, those conditions can be modified to meet the
requirements of the programme and those appropriate to the natural
or urban environment. To some critics it would appear that
Descombes has always done too little on and to the site, and in
some instances have condemned him for 'doing almost nothing'.
Although simplicity usually demands greater concentration and
study, it often yields greater rewards that result from just that
restraint. Perhaps how we approach the world is more important that
how we shape the world. Descombes's landscapes are instructive in
this regard.
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