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Why is Landscape Beautiful? : The Science of Strollology.
Title:
Why is Landscape Beautiful? : The Science of Strollology.
Author:
Burckhardt, Lucius.
ISBN:
9783035604139
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Contents:
Content -- Strollology. A Minor Subject. In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist -- LANDSCAPE -- Landscape Development and the Structure of Society (1977) -- Why is Landscape Beautiful? (1979) -- Ecology-Only A Fashion? (1984) -- Nature Is Invisible (1989) -- "Nature has neither core Nor outer rind …" (1989) -- Aesthetics and Ecology (1990) -- Aesthetics of the Landscape (1991) -- Landscape Is Transitory (1994) -- Wasteland As Context. Is There Any Such Thing As The Postmodern Landscape? (1998) -- Landscape (1998) -- GARDENS and THE ART OF GARDENING -- Gardening-An Art and a Necessity (1977) -- No Man's Land (1980) -- Destroyed By Tender Loving Care (1981) -- Reason Slumbers in the Garden (1988) -- Gardens Are Images (1989) -- In Nature's Garden (1989) -- Nature and the Garden in Classicism (1963) -- Garden Design-New Trends (1981) -- A Critique of the Art of Gardening (1983) -- Views from Mount Furka (1988) -- Natura Maestra (1999) -- Current Trends in Garden Design (1999) -- STROLLOLOGY -- Strollological Observations on Perception of the Environment and the Tasks Facing Our Generation (1996) -- The Science of Strollology (1995) -- What Do Explorers Discover? (1987) -- Mountaineering on Sylt. In Conversation with Nikolaus Wyss (1989) -- A Matter of Looking and Recognizing. In Conversation with Thomas Fuchs (1993) -- Strollology-A New Science (1998) -- On Movement And Vantage Points-The Strollologist's Experience (1999) -- Bibliography -- Biography -- Index.
Abstract:
Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) lehrte an der Universität Kassel Architekturtheorie, gründete in den 1980er Jahren die Promenadologie, die Spaziergangswissenschaft, und entwickelte sie zu einer komplexen und weitsichtigen Planungs- und Designdisziplin. Das Buch veröffentlicht in englischer Sprache 32 Texte des Design- und Planungskritikers, in deren Zentrum die Aspekte Landschaft, Gartenkunst und Spaziergangswissenschaft stehen.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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