The Modern Architectural Landscape
Language: English
Published by University of Minnesota Press, 2012
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University of Minnesota Press, Published 2012. Paperback, xiv, 300 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings.In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers have mild edge and shelf wear; binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.[From back cover] In The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between 1915 and the mid-1980s. Focusing on landscape as a conceptual and formal problem in the work of architects rather than landscape architects, Constant's analyses encompass the Sunnyside Gardens housing development, Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion, Erik Gunnar Asplund's Woodland Cemetery, Joze Plecnik's designs for Ljubljana, Garrett Eckbo's California gardens, Le Corbusier's Chandigarh Capitol Complex, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Mies van der Rohe's Lafayette Park, and Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park alongside Rem Koolhaas and OMA's Parc de la Villette competition entry, revealing them as salient to the formulation of both modern architecture and the modern landscape.Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Sunnyside Gardens; Chapter 2: The Barcelona Pavilion; Chapter 3: Erik Gunnar Asplund; Chapter 4: The Woodland Cemetery; Chapter 5: Joze Plecnik; Chapter 6: Garrett Eckbo; Chapter 7: Le Corbusier and Chandigarh; Chapter 8: Hilberseimer and Lafayette Park; Chapter 9: Central Park and OMA's Parc de la Villette; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…
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- Title
- The Modern Architectural Landscape
- Author
- Caroline Constant
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0816676356
- ISBN 13
- 9780816676354
- Item weight
- 25 ounces
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
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In The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between 1915 and the mid-1980s. Case studies highlight landscapes in the public realm rather than the private garden, which had been a primary focus of much Western landscape theory and practice during the early decades of the century. These landscapes do more than accommodate the functional needs of the evolving mass society in parks, playgrounds, and places of assembly; they give formal expression to Modern Movement social and political ideologies, engaging the symbolic potential of the modern landscape—particularly in its ability to take on new, more democratic forms of social organization.
Constant probes the cultural significance of specific landscapes designed by architects, understanding them as ways of interpreting the world and the place of humankind in the world. The examples she scrutinizes extend widely across the century (from the works of Erik Gunnar Asplund and Jože Plečnik to those of Le Corbusier and Rem Koolhaas) and around the globe (from suburban Los Angeles to Barcelona and Chandigarh).
Approaching landscape as an essential component of modern architecture’s constructive endowment of material with social value, The Modern Architectural Landscape focuses on the precise material forms and ideological underpinnings of landscapes conceived by architects, revealing them as salient to the formulation of both modern architecture and the modern landscape.
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Caroline Constant is professor of architecture at the University of Michigan and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
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