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The Landscape Imagination: Collected Essays of James Corner 1990-2010
Over the past two decades, James Corner has reinvented the field of landscape architecture. His highly influential writings of the 1990s—included in our bestselling Recovering Landscape —together with a post-millennial series of built projects, such as New York's celebrated High Line, prove that the best way to address the problems facing our cities is to embrace their industrial past. Collecting Corner's written scholarship from the early 1990s through 2010, The Landscape Imagination addresses critical issues in landscape architecture and reflects on how his writings have informed the built work of his thriving New York– based practice, Field Operations.
- GenresLandscape Architecture
320 pages, Hardcover
First published May 27, 2014
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June 29, 2020
I particularly enjoyed the last quarter of the book which focuses on 'The High Line' garden in NY, and references to the writings/work by John Dixon Hunt.
"Hunt develops the concept of the longue durée, the long duration, the slow accrual of experience and meaning over time. Possibly one of the most fundamental, important, and difficult criteria for landscape architecture is the fact that the medium is bound into time. There can be no immediacy of appreciation, no fast way to consume landscape in any meaningful or lasting way. Landscapes can never be properly captured in a single moment; they are always in a process of becoming, as in a temporal quarry of accrual and memory—collecting experiences, representations, uses, the effects of weather, changes in management, cultivation and care, and other traces of layered presence."
This excerpt above really got to me. I miss visiting gardens. Vita Sackville-West's and Derek Jarman's are on the top of the list of my 'Gardens To Visit'. Also, Piet Oudolf's studio/garden, and so many more. This book allows me to think about the art of growing plants and the aesthetics/relationship between plants and people in a new/different perspective(s) - and I like that.
"Hunt develops the concept of the longue durée, the long duration, the slow accrual of experience and meaning over time. Possibly one of the most fundamental, important, and difficult criteria for landscape architecture is the fact that the medium is bound into time. There can be no immediacy of appreciation, no fast way to consume landscape in any meaningful or lasting way. Landscapes can never be properly captured in a single moment; they are always in a process of becoming, as in a temporal quarry of accrual and memory—collecting experiences, representations, uses, the effects of weather, changes in management, cultivation and care, and other traces of layered presence."
This excerpt above really got to me. I miss visiting gardens. Vita Sackville-West's and Derek Jarman's are on the top of the list of my 'Gardens To Visit'. Also, Piet Oudolf's studio/garden, and so many more. This book allows me to think about the art of growing plants and the aesthetics/relationship between plants and people in a new/different perspective(s) - and I like that.
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