Landscape architecture and infrastructure of the twentieth century : selections from the Docomomo chapters / Jan Haenraets, Andrew Saniga, Gulnur Cengiz (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haenraets, Jan, editor.

Saniga, Andrew, editor.

Cengiz, Gulnar, editor.

International Working-Party for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement, issuing body.

Series:

Docomomo International Book Series ; #01

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture--History--20th century.

Landscape architecture.

Physical Description:

280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Delft [Netherlands] : Docomomo International, 2024.

Summary:

"This book presents a wide range of landscapes that have been integral to the Modern Movement era. It aims to raise awareness of their design significance and to broaden understanding of their diversity. It demonstrates the breadth of roles that landscape architects and affiliated designers have played in response to the demands wrought by social, political and environmental change, particularly in the post-World War II years. In this sense it draws attention to people and places that previously may have been marginally understood--'invisible' or 'dislocated'--thus enabling them to be appreciated in new ways and to be considered more carefully in comparative analyses into the future. Included in this book are eighty-six landscapes spanning the twentieth century and representing the following thirty-eight countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Thailand, the Netherlands, Turkey, United States of America, and Venezuela. The book is published by Docomomo International as an initiative by the Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and Landscape, and received publishing grants from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Research Fund and the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne.-- $$c Publisher's website.

Contents:

Preface

Foreword: Modernist landscapes as a key to environmental well-being

Essay: Making twentieth-century landscapes visible

1. From domesticity to urban vision

2. New parks and places of leisure

3. Institutions, education and health

4. Landscapes of infrastructure and production

5. Memory, commemoration, provocation

Landscapes by country

Timeline of landscapes

Methodology and submissions : geographical range and period

Landscape types.

Notes:

"This book presents landscapes of the Modern Movement era in order to raise awareness of the role of landscape architecture among the wider public and within the International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement, referred to as Docomomo. It seeks to broaden understanding of a diversity of landscapes beyond the more well-known, drawing attention to places that may previously have been marginally understood, dislocated or beyond categorisation."--Acknowledgements, page 7.

"DOCOMOMO International is a non-profit organization dedicated to documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement. It was initiated in 1988 by Hubert-Jan Henket, architect and professor, and Wessel de Jonge, architect and research fellow, at the School of Architecture at the Technical University in Eindhoven, the Netherlands."--Docomomo website.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789083386706

9083386708

OCLC:

1472943087