Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader

Simon Swaffield

University of Pennsylvania Press, Oct 25, 2002 - Architecture - 265 pages

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures, Theory in Landscape Architecture reminds readers that the discipline of landscape architecture can be both practical and formally challenging. Covering the past fifty years of theory, this primer makes an important contribution to a student's emerging professional ethics.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• THE NATURE OF THEORY IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: 7
• Landscape for Living 1950: 9
• How to Study Landscape 1980: 11
• Origins of Theory 1990: 19
• Theory in Crisis 1991: 20
• Situating Modern Landscape Architecture 1992: 21
• DESIGN PROCESS: 33
• Design Process 1950: 35
• The Art of Site Planning 1984: 37
• An Ecological Method 1967: 38
• The RSVP Cycles 1969: 43
• Community Design 1974: 49
• Site Design 1984: 57
• Creative Risk Taking 1983: 58
• The Obligation of Invention 1998: 64
• FORM MEANING and EXPERIENCE: 73
• Form Meaning and Expression 1988: 77
• The Landscape of Man 1987: 80
• New Lives New Landscapes 1970: 82
• Cubist Space Volumetric Space 1988: 84
• Minimalist Landscape 1997: 87
• Must Landscapes Mean? 1995: 89
• Place Reclamation 1993: 102
• Three Dimensions of Meaning 1994: 104
• Systems Signs and Sensibilities 1987: 108
• DeRe Informing Landscape 1991: 116
• SOCIETY LANGUAGE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LANDSCAPE: 123
• The Language of Landscape 1998: 125
• The Hermeneutic Landscape 1991: 130
• Reading and Writing the Site 1992: 131
• Landscape Narratives 1998: 136
• Representation and Landscape 1992: 144
• Landscape as Cultural Product 1984: 165
• The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture 1997: 167
• ECOLOGICAL DESIGN AND THE AESTHETICS OF SUSTAINABILITY: 171
• Design with Nature 1969: 173
• An Ecological Approach 1982: 175
• Design for Human Ecosystems 1985: 178
• Can Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms? 1991: 188
• Gray World Green Heart 1994: 189
• Messy Ecosystems Orderly Frames 1995: 196
• INTEGRATING SITE PLACE AND REGION: 207
• Principles for Regional Design 1990: 209
• SignatureBased Landscape Design 1997: 213
• Gardens from Region 1990: 216
• Infrastructure as Landscape 1996: 220
• The Theoretical Terrain of Landscape Architecture: 227
• Notes: 231
• Credits: 257
• Index: 261
• Acknowledgments: 267

Popular passages

Page 245 - Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (New York: Hill and Wang, 1975), p. 22. 49. See Tania Modleski, "The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory," paper given at a conference on mass culture.

About the author

Simon Swaffield is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader; Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Editor: Simon Swaffield
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0812218213, 9780812218213
• Length: 265 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Landscape