Screen LibrarySite, sight, insight : essays on landscape architecture /
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Penn studies in landscape architecture
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| Item Description: | Collection of essays; some are revisions of previously published texts. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 193 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780812248005 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0812248007 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | SB469 |
| CLC: |
TU986-02 TU986.4 |
| Call Number: | TU986.4/H941 |
| 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 |