Out There - Landscape Architecture in the Global Terrain

City and country-these terms are generally regarded as opposites. The urban, with its constructed spaces and places, is separated from nature, with its mature landscapes and clearings. Yet, today's landscape architecture explores both of them as a single system, making it possible to see the mutual dependency of these supposedly opposing developments. In view of massive changes in ecological systems, as well as increasing migration and the spread of unplanned human settlements, landscape architecture is also being confronted with global challenges. This catalogue is a plea to redefine the discipline's position. Innovative but complex approaches are presented in examples of specific projects from all over the world. Landscape architecture today commits itself to the spatial systems that will shape tomorrow's society. (German edition: ISBN 978-3-7757-4258-0)
 
Exhibition: Architekturmuseum der TU München in der Pinakothek der Moderne 29.3.-11.6.2017

About the author

Andres Lepik, MoMA New York, curator for architecture and design, author of several publications on Mies van der Rohe, Bauhaus et al.

Summary

City and country—these terms are generally regarded as opposites. The urban, with its constructed spaces and places, is separated from nature, with its mature landscapes and clearings. Yet, today’s landscape architecture explores both of them as a single system, making it possible to see the mutual dependency of these supposedly opposing developments. In view of massive changes in ecological systems, as well as increasing migration and the spread of unplanned human settlements, landscape architecture is also being confronted with global challenges. This catalogue is a plea to redefine the discipline’s position. Innovative but complex approaches are presented in examples of specific projects from all over the world. Landscape architecture today commits itself to the spatial systems that will shape tomorrow’s society. (German edition: ISBN 978-3-7757-4258-0)


 


Exhibition: Architekturmuseum der TU München in der Pinakothek der Moderne 29.3.–11.6.2017

Product details

• Authors: Joh Beardsley, John Beardsley, Undin Giseke, Undine Giseke, Regine Keller, Regine et a Keller, Andres Lepik, Jörg Rekittke, Jürgen Renn, Antje Stokman, Christian Werthmann
• Assisted by: Andre Lepik (Editor), Andres Lepik (Editor)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9783775742597
• ISBN: 978-3-7757-4259-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 514 g
• Illustrations: 155 Abb.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Architecture; Architektur, Verstehen, Landschaften, entdecken, ökologische Systeme