Distance and Engagement: Field Trips to Landscapes

by Günther Vogt, Alice Foxley

Günther Vogt and his landscape designers bring a lot of passion to their research and to their search for ideas for transforming undesigned sites or tracts of land into landscapes. They don’t want to depend just on knowledge acquired from books. They venture out into the landscape at all times of the day and year and interrogate what they see there. They make room for art and science in their studies and use the same tools to turn their landscape designs into reality. Most of their "field trips" begin out of curiosity based on something they’ve seen, heard, or read. Against this backdrop, they explore, among other things, fortifications in France, the Upper Rhine in Switzerland, and national parks in England. The results of their "field trips," research projects, and practical implementations are collected in this publication. Distance and Engagement takes up where Miniatur und Panorama left off and shows not only what Günther Vogt is working on but also, and above all, how he works.

480 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2010

Reviews

[Tiffany · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating insight into the design thinking and methodology of a research-driven landscape architecture practice. Rich with extraneous material and references to others, this is an inspiring catalogue of design approaches and references that have informed some amazing projects.