Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities: In Search of a Position

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 G nther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession.With reference to five different locations, G nther Vogt speaks about current themes of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city, about his teaching at the ETH Z rich, 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.

Author: Rebecca Bornhauser
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Published: 02/20/2015
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9783037783047