Overview

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.

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Author:   Caroline Constant
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9780816676354

ISBN 10:   0816676356
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   19 March 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Landscapes of Modern Architecture 1. Social Idealism and Urban Landscape: Sunnyside Gardens vs. Römerstadt 2. The Barcelona Pavilion as Landscape Garden: Modernity and the Picturesque 3. The Urban Landscapes of Erik Gunnar Asplund: Architecture between “Nature” and the City 4. Toward a Spiritual Landscape: The Woodland Cemetery and Swedish Burial Reform 5. A Landscape “Fit for a Democracy”: Jože Plečnik at Prague Castle 6. Collaborative Fruits: Garrett Eckbo’s Communal Landscapes 7. From the Virgilian Dream to Chandigarh: Le Corbusier and the Modern Landscape 8. Hilberseimer and Caldwell: Intersecting Ideologies in Lafayette Park 9. The Once and Future Park: From Central Park to OMA’s Parc de la Villette Afterword Notes Publication History Index

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<p> This is a book which architect aficionados of landscape design have long been waiting for, written by a critical scholar who has devoted the best part of the last twenty years to a progressive analysis of the interplay between modern architectural form and the landscape by which it has been invariably amplified. --Kenneth Frampton, author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History

""This is a book which architect aficionados of landscape design have long been waiting for, written by a critical scholar who has devoted the best part of the last twenty years to a progressive analysis of the interplay between modern architectural form and the landscape by which it has been invariably amplified."" —Kenneth Frampton, author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History

This is a book which architect aficionados of landscape design have long been waiting for, written by a critical scholar who has devoted the best part of the last twenty years to a progressive analysis of the interplay between modern architectural form and the landscape by which it has been invariably amplified. Kenneth Frampton, author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History

This is a book which architect aficionados of landscape design have long been waiting for, written by a critical scholar who has devoted the best part of the last twenty years to a progressive analysis of the interplay between modern architectural form and the landscape by which it has been invariably amplified. --Kenneth Frampton, author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History

Author Information

Caroline Constant is professor of architecture at the University of Michigan and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

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