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"David Leatherbarrow offers a new way of thinking of architecture and landscape architecture. Moving beyond partisan arguments, he shows how the two disciplines rely upon one another to form a single framework of cultural meaning. Leatherbarrow redefines landscape architecture and architecture as topographical arts, the shared task of which is to accommodate and express the patterns of our lives. Topography, in his view, incorporates terrain, built and unbuilt. It also traces practical affairs, by which culture preserves and renews its typical situations and institutions." "This argument is illustrated by nearly 100 images, as well as examples of topography from the sixteenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, through the heroic period of early modernism, to more recent offerings. A number of these studies revise existing accounts of decisive moments in the history of these disciplines, particularly the birth of the informal garden, the emergence of continuous space in the landscapes and architecture of the modern period, and the new significance of landform or earthwork in contemporary architecture. For readers not directly involved with either of these professions, this book shows how over the centuries our lives have been shaped and enriched by landscape and architecture."--BOOK JACKET.
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Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture
2015, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture
2015, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
October 2004, University of Pennsylvania Press
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0812238095 9780812238099
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"Do the geometries and dimensions of landform prescribe those of building-form?"
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