Site, sight, insight : essays on landscape architecture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunt, John Dixon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Penn studies in landscape architecture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The lie of the land
  • Near and far, and the spaces in between
  • Stourhead revisited and the pursuit of meaning in Gardens
  • Thomas Whately's observations on modern gardening
  • John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yves-Alain Bois walked into a bar ...
  • Folly in the garden
  • Jardins : reflections on the human condition
  • Between garden and landscape
  • Ekphrasis : déja vu all over again
  • Preservation in the sphere of the mind : duration and memory
  • "ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by gravity as rapture by grief"
  • From illustration to landscape.