To Design Landscape

Art, Nature & Utility

Catherine Dee

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781136653650
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architettura
• Subtopic: Pianificazione urbana e paesaggistica

To Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using the concept of "aesthetics of thrift".Employing numerous case studies-as diverse as Hellerup Rose Garden in Denmark; Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, USA; Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire, UK and Tofuku-ji, in Kyoto, Japan - to illustrate her ideas, the book is a beautiful portfolio of Dee's drawings, which are both evocative and to the point.The book begins with a 'Foundations' section, which sets out the basis of the approach. 'Principles' chapters then elaborate eleven significant considerations applicable to any design project, regardless of context and scale. Following on, 'Strategies' chapters reinforce the principles, and suggest further ways of designing, adaptable to different conditions. Dee ends with a focus on 'Elements', case studies and verb lists providing sources for the designer to consider how the components - vegetation, water, terrain, structures, soils, weather, and the sky - might be engaged, mediated and joined.Catherine Dee's book is for all those who would craft landscape, from the gardener, to the professional landscape architect, to the student of design

Index

Absence 168–169, 173, 177, 188

Abstraction 25–26, 128–130

Action 4–6, 9–11, 25, 37, 81, 179; adaptive 9; collective 7; design 7, 119; ethical 7; material 6; modest 86; responsive 6, 81

Aesthetic 4–5, 8, 10, 69, 98, 154; design 10; experience 4, 10, 49; industrial 69, 247; judgement 4, 6, 10–11; knowledge 129; machine 71; quality 6; practice 4; principle 91; response 11; strategy 153; sublime 68

Aesthetics 3, 11, 69, 81, 119, 179; conduit for 11, 81, 179; formal 9, 129–130

Aesthetics of Thrift 3–5, 10–11, 81

Agriculture 59, 69, 131, 247

Alhambra 134

Arboriculture 69

Archetypal 25; landscape 26

Archetype 26

Architecture 66, 88, 239

Art 3–4, 8, 10–11, 26, 36–37, 51, 69, 80–81, 98–99, 149, 157; installation 150

Artist 39, 112, 133, 149, 153, 237, 248, 252

Artistic 3, 8, 10, 101, 130, 153, 169; practice 10; response 10

Authorship 81

Avenue 49, 130, 198, 219, 244, 258

Bacon, Francis 179

Beauty 10–11, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Foundations
• 1 To design landscape
• 2 Craft
• 3 Form
• 4 The aesthetics of thrift: art, nature and utility
• Principles
• 5 Sculpting time
• 6 All possible forms
• 7 Nature, culture, both
• 8 Soft, rock-hard and evergreen time
• 9 Elemental register
• 10 Hand and machine
• 11 Modesty and ingenuity in art
• 12 Economy of means
• 13 Utilitarian form
• 14 Context is everything
• 15 Raking
• Strategies
• 16 Abstraction
• 17 Hardly
• 18 Intervention
• 19 Keep
• 20 Absence
• 21 Lucky
• 22 Interplay
• Elements
• 23 Green
• 24 Terrain
• 25 Wet
• 26 Furnish
• 27 Dirty, rotten
• 28 Wind
• 29 Sky
• Bibliography
• Case studies listed by designer
• Case studies listed by site
• Index