See inside this book by clicking here. Excerpt from the preface, by George Hargreaves Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design has many roots. For design students and faculty in the 1970s, the state of American landscape-architecture education and practice was all but reduced to decorated diagrams, particularly since environmental planning cornered the intellectual resources of the day. So where to look? The fine arts - in particular land, minimal, and pop art - became one source of new ideas for a rebirth of landscape design. Another, developing in Europe, led by Jacques Simon and Michel Corajoud among others, focused on the art of design - "unapologetically" as Joseph Disponzio writes in the introduction to this book. Then, with the arrival in the mid-1980s of Paris' Parc de la Villette - first as a competition, then as a built work, and finally as the focus of scholarship (Lodewijk Baljon's Designing Paris of 1992, comes to mind) - the discourse of landscape architecture was dramatically invigorated. Most of the international competition entries, in particular those of Bernard Tschumi's winning design and Rem Koolhaas' OMA "banded park" proposal, were permeated with theory, something sorely lacking American landscape design work of the day. Critical attention ton the Parc de la Villette is rightly aimed at Tschumi's built park, which gave us, among other breakthroughs, Alexandre Chemetoff's bamboo garden - a landscape rich in theory and experiential qualities that embraced territory, infrastructure, volume, plants, sounds, and the participant as observer and observed. It was a design well in advance of other urban works of the day. As influential was OMA's scheme, which continues to reverberate through landscape-architecture circles (though one might please: enough with the bands!) The changes to landscape architecture set in motion in the 1970s and 1980s, and framed by the intellectual rigor of postmodern theory, can be viewed as the progenitors of projects presented in this copiously illustrated volume. They expand the practice of landscape design behind the conventional project boundary to engage a much broader field, a territory as Disponzio and the essayists of this volume make clear. In so doing, they suggest a future course for a landscape architecture beset with new challenges as we enter solidly into the twenty-first century. ... [continued] Contents Preface George Hargreaves Introduction Joseph Disponzio Viewed Across the Sea: European Landscape Architecture from the American Perspective Marc Treib A Landscape Abecedary A. Aquifer. Aqua Magica Landesgartenschau 2000, Bad Oeynhausen-Lohne, Germany. Agence TER B. Barrier. Dam and Quays, Nancy, France. Atelier de Paysage Bruel-Delmar C. Cloister. Bonaval Park, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Isabel Aguirre and Alvaro Siza D. Dockyards. Borneo-Sporenburg Housing, Amsterdam. West 8 E. Eurotwon. Urban Design for the Plateau de Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Latz+Partners F. Fringes. Parc departemental du Sausset, Seine-St. Denis, France. Atelier Corajoud G. Grounds. Remodeling the Historic Center of 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. Beth Gali H. Harbor. Old Dock Square, Copenhagen. Jeppe Aagaard Andersen I. Inscape. National Botanic Garden, Llanarthne, Wales. Kathryn Gustafson and Neil Porter J. Jail. State Penitentiary, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Inside Outside K. Kindergarten. Garden Court, Pestalozzi Street, Berlin. Buro Kiefer L. Light. Saint-Nazaire Ville-Port, Lighting, Saint-Nazaire, France. Yann de Kersale M. Marsh. Parc Saint-Pierre, Amiens, France. Jacqueline Osty N. Necklace. ZAC de Port Marianne, Montpellier, France. Desvigne and Dalnoky O. Office. Courtyard Gardens, Fyns Telecommunication Center, Odense, Denmjark. Preben Skaarup Tegnestue P. Ponds. Jardin de Mery, Chateau de Mery-sur-Oise, Oise, France. Pascal Cribier Q. Quarry. Croscat Volcano, Garrotxa National Park, Olot, Garrotxa (Catalonia), Spain. Martiria Figueras R. Rest Stop. Crazannes Quarries - Autoroute A837, Saintes / Rochefort-sur-Mer, France. Bernard Lassus S. Small Towns. Vignacourt, Ribemont-sur-Ancre, Epehy (Picardie) France. A Ciel Ouvert T. Trail. Rest Area at Malniu Recreation Area, Meranges, Cerdanya (Catalonia), Spain. Enric Batlle and Joan Roig U. Unease. Bijlmer Memorial, Amsterdam. George Descombes V. Valley. Vinterviken Culture Park, Stockholm. Thorbjorn Andersson W. Waterfront. Le Havre Waterfront, Le Havre, France. Alexandre Chemetoff X. Xanadu. Mata dos Medos, Private Garden, Lisbon. Gancalo Ribeiro-Telles Y. Yard. Private Garden, Oud Aa, the Netherlands. Paul van Beek Z. Zeitgeber. Invaliden Park, Berlin. Christophe Girot Activating Layers: Some Notes on Landscape in Barcelona Jordi Bellmunt and Maria Goula High and Low: Lyon's Open-Space Policy Dorothee Imbert Emscher Park: More than Postindustrial Romanticism? Thies Schroder Polderland Lodewijk Baljon Scandinavia: Reduction, Response, and Authenticity Thorbjorn Andersson |
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