Landscript 4 | Nature Modern

Landscript 4 | Nature Modern
October 19, 2017 Fujan Fahmi
EDITORS

Christophe Girot, Albert Kirchengast

CHIEF EDITORS

Christophe Girot, Albert Kirchengast

AUTHORS

Pierre-Alain Croset, Caroline Constant, Patrick Düblin, Christophe Girot, Sandy Isenstadt, Albert Kirchengast, david Leatherbarrow, Marco Pogacnik, Manfred Speidel, Charles Waldheim, Richard Weston

DATE OF PUBLICATION

October 2017

SPECIFICATIONS

English
16.0 x 22.0 cm
Euro 29.80  sFr 36.20
ISBN 978-3-86859-213-9

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The Place of Landscape in the Modern Movement

Nature is not simply “green” or the “opposite of culture.” Essentially, it is an intellectual construct. The relationship between man and Nature, for instance, articulates itself architectonically. Now what could one see as the possible role of Nature in projects of architects representative of the International Style (including successive echoes in postwar modernity), and how does Nature itself only become “visible” through the built environment? Based on key architecture projects, this fourth volume of the Landscript series attempts to instigate a change of perspective. In series of investigations, renowned researchers analyse architecture through the lens of its own inherent understanding of Nature. Their essays try to gain insights both into concepts of Nature in modernity, whose entire range of characteristics have yet to be explored, and into an architecture, whose relationship to Nature is usually only negotiated in disciplines like garden history. How does this finally relate to our present condition?