Landscape Analogue : : About Material Culture and Idealism / / ed. by Christophe Girot, Albert Kirchengast.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Boehm, Frank,; Caviezel, Nott,; Figal, Günter,; Fischer, Ludwig,; Fretton, Tony,; Girot, Christophe,; Hahn, Achim,; Kirchengast, Albert,; Köppler, Jörn,; Mehling, Lara,; Nagler, Florian,; Richter, Dunja,; Ronacher, Anja,; Schoper, Henrike,; Schoper, Tom,; Strauß, Simon,; Zwerger, Klaus,
• HerausgeberIn: Girot, Christophe,; Kirchengast, Albert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : JOVIS, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Landscript ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; zahlr. Abb.

The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world. Yet, today...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Foreword
• The Analogue, the Adaptive, and the New : Thinking the Grammar of Landscape
• Toward a Theory of Contemporary Landscape Ornament
• The “Green Image of the City” Mapping Zurich : A Case Study
• Távora, Siza, and Nature
• Museum Insel Hombroich : The Construction of an Alternative Natural Space
• Ruach : Two Children
• A Farewell to the Concept of Landscape ?
• A Vision of the Rural
• The Ethical Relevance of Simple Things Art, Crafts, Design, and Modern Life
• Other Ways We Could Build
• The Simple’ s Strength Rethinking Vernacular Form
• Licht im Norden
• To Design Is to Transgress : Toward an Understanding of Architectural Design
• The Essence of the Analogy in Architecture— And the Spirit of cittá analoga
• Carpet of Memory : Messages from Monuments
• Prospectus for an Academy in the Countryside A Dialogue
• Appendix
• IMPRINT