Landscript 5 | Material Culture

Landscript 5 | Material Culture
October 19, 2017 Fujan Fahmi
EDITOR

Jane Hutton

CHIEF EDITORS

Christophe Girot, Albert Kirchengast

AUTHORS

Garth Anderson, Adam Bobbette, Jana Cephas, Sonja Dümpelmann, Cornelia Escher, Jennifer Foster, Kim Förster, Martin Hogue, Jane Hutton, Stephan Kowal, Alessandra Ponte, Heidy Schopf, Nancy Takahashi, Katie Lloyd Thomas, Jane Wolff, Sara Zewde

DATE OF PUBLICATION

October 2017

SPECIFICATIONS

English
16.0 x 22.0 cm
Euro 29.80  sFr 36.20
ISBN 978-3-86859-214-6

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Assembling and Disassembling Landscapes

 

Landscript 5 examines Material Culture in landscape architecture theory and design. Designed landscapes are temporal assemblages of extant and introduced materials, constructed and maintained through the efforts of human labor, mediated through non-human forces, and shaped by constantly changing cultural relations. Sites are bounded by property lines, yet their material relationships—from the transport of construction commodities to global water cycles—extend to untold limits. Designed landscapes are models of human-nature relations, at the same time they are human-nature relations, simultaneously representing and actualizing the co-production of the world. Landscript 5 looks at the aesthetic implications and design opportunities engaging landscape’s extended Material Culture.