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Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape,
defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of
uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from
cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other
disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement
between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions
of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present day, looking
at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and
how such movement, in turn, has conditioned understandings of the
landscape. A particular focus is on the modern transportation
landscape as it came into being with the canal, the railway, and
the automobile. These modes of transport have had a profound impact
on the perception and conceptualization of the modern landscape, a
relationship investigated in detail by authors such as Gernot
BAhme, Sarah Bonnemaison, Tim Cresswell, Finola O'Kane, Charlotte
Klonk, Peter Merriman, Christine Macy, David Nye, Vittoria Di
Palma, Charles Withers, and Thomas Zeller.
From the seventeenth century until today, the "modern" has served
as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present.
Art and architecture have played a key role in this pursuit, as the
means by which "the modern" was to manifest itself. The essays in
this new anthology trace the modern project through its
multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary
culture in a deeper sense than discussions of "modernism" and "post
modernism" usually offer. Drawng on architectural and urban history
as well as philosophy and sociology, the book outlines the complex
and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestations in
architecture and the city.
The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship
between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing
nineteenth century. Publication history is a rapidly expanding
scholarly field which has profoundly influenced architectural
history in recent years. Yet, while groundbreaking work has been
done on architecture and printing in the Renaissance, the
Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, the nineteenth century
has received little attention. This is the omission that The
Printed and the Built seeks to address, thus filling a significant
gap in the understanding of architecture's cultural history.
Lavishly illustrated with colourful and eclectic visual material,
from panoramas to printed ephemera, adverts, penny magazines, early
photography, and even crime reportage, The Printed and the Built
consists of five in-depth thematic essays accompanied by 25 short
pieces, each examining a particular printed form. Altogether, they
illustrate how new genres communicated architecture to a mass
audience, setting the stage for the modern architectural era.
A celebration of renowned sculptor and educator Kent Bloomer's
work, examining the role of ornament in contemporary architecture
and society Best known for New York's Central Park luminaires
(1982), the ornamentation at Rice University's Baker Hall in
Houston (1997), and his work on Yale University's Bass Library
entrance pavilion and Sterling Memorial Library stairwell entrance
(2007), the sculptor Kent Bloomer (b. 1935) has not only influenced
the discussion around ornament in contemporary architectural
practice, but has inspired developments in a range of disciplines
that include history, music, art, philosophy, and biology. With a
retrospective look at Bloomer's work as a point of departure,
scholars from a variety of different fields explore his
contributions to the history of ornament as both a social and an
artistic phenomenon. Through the lens of Bloomer's groundbreaking
oeuvre, this volume reorients the discourse of ornament from a
contentious vestige of modernity toward its active relationship to
architecture, landscape, urbanism, and a sense of place.
Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape,
defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of
uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from
cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other
disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement
between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions
of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present day, looking
at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and
how such movement, in turn, has conditioned understandings of the
landscape. A particular focus is on the modern transportation
landscape as it came into being with the canal, the railway, and
the automobile. These modes of transport have had a profound impact
on the perception and conceptualization of the modern landscape, a
relationship investigated in detail by authors such as Gernot
BAhme, Sarah Bonnemaison, Tim Cresswell, Finola O'Kane, Charlotte
Klonk, Peter Merriman, Christine Macy, David Nye, Vittoria Di
Palma, Charles Withers, and Thomas Zeller.
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