Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities (Paperback)

Medea Hock

ISBN 10: 3037783044 / ISBN 13: 9783037783047

Published by Lars Muller Publishers, Baden, 2012

About this Item

Paperback. Inspired by the architects' tradition of passing on experience in conversation form, this paperback book provides insights into the ideas, methods, and memories of one of Europe's most innovative landscape architects. In twelve concise conversations, Vogt inquires into the meaning of landscape architecture in the context of the worldwide urbanization process, and tries to define this young discipline's position. To this day, our concept of landscape appears to be influenced by an Arcadian ideal. Only when landscapes are understood on several levels, as the product of natural, cultural, and social processes, can atmospheric and living urban landscapes appropriate to the specific situation be created. Gunther Vogt sees landscape architecture decidedly as part of a city, given its close relationship to topography, architecture, and infrastructure. 64 illustrations Inspired by the architects' tradition of passing on experience in conversation form,this paperback book provides insights into the ideas, methods, and memories of oneof Europe's most innovative landscape architects. In twelve concise conversations,Vogt inquires into the meaning of landscape architecture in the context of theworldwide urbanization process, and tries to define this young discipline's position.To this day, our concept of landscape appears to be influenced by an Arcadian ideal.Only when landscapes are understood on several levels, as the product of natural,cultural, and social processes, can atmospheric and living urban landscapes appropriateto the specific situation be created. Günther Vogt sees landscape architecturedecidedly as part of a city, given its close relationship to topography, architecture,and infrastructure. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities (Paperback)
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers, Baden
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037783044
• ISBN 13: 9783037783047
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Picking up on architecture’s tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Günther Vogt,and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession.With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city, about his teaching at the ETH Zürich, and about the work of Vogt Landscape Architects; he describes his perception of the lanscape as a cabinet of curiostities, tells how he collects various phenomena and individual elements, relates them to each other and rearranges them. And in the reader’s mind’s eye unfolds a cosmos, in which the lack of wholeness of “the landscape” seems to be a gain rather than a loss.

About the Author

GUNTHER VOGT is a landscape architect and owner of Vogt Landscape Architects Zurich, with branch offices in Munich, Berlin, and London. Since 2005, he is a professor for landscape architecture at ETH Zurich. Current work includes public realm and streetscape designs for the athletes' village for the Olympic Games in London 2012, now known as East Village.