The title may sound like a joke for the purist; but there is reason to believe that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s understanding of landscape and nature shifted significantly throughout his career, and came to play a distinct role in his later American works.
Pamphlet 12 presents a landscape design workshop undertaken by architecture students under the supervision of the Institute for Landscape Architecture on the site of the Lagoon of Santa Gilla in Cagliari, Sardinia.
The results from the areas of design, theory and video deal with problems and issues of place specific to the Upper Rhine Delta on the Lake of Constance.