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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 Günther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession.With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city, about his teaching at the ETH Zürich, 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.
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Günter Vogt, 1957 geboren, Landschaftsarchitekt. Ausbildung an der Gartenbauschule Oeschberg, Schweiz. Studium Landschaftsarchitektur am Interkantonalen Technikum Rapperswil, Schweiz. Seit 1995 Mitinhaber von Kienast Vogt Partner. Seit 2000 Inhaber Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten, Zürich und München, seit 2008 London. Seit 2005 ausserordentlicher Professor für Landschaftsarchitektur an der ETH Zürich. Seit 2007 Leitung des Netzwerks Stadt und Landschaft (NSL) der ETH Zürich
Summary
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 Günther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession.
With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city, about his teaching at the ETH Zürich, 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.
