Delta Dialogues

Delta landscapes are difficult to define. These murky territories require a careful reading, and the analysis of a site caught between land and water calls for more than a mapping project to understand its complex bounds, so often drawn in fiction- al lines. This issue of Pamphlet proposes that, as landscape architects, we must thoroughly investigate the medium by innovating our design methods, strategies, processes, and tools to gain a literacy of place, which like the delta itself, embraces multiple threads and a constantly changing course. Delta Dialogues discusses site-reading methods that teach us to read between these rigid lines.

Summary

Delta landscapes are difficult to define. These murky territories require a careful reading, and the analysis of a site caught between land and water calls for more than a mapping project to understand its complex bounds, so often drawn in fiction- al lines. This issue of Pamphlet proposes that, as landscape architects, we must thoroughly investigate the medium by innovating our design methods, strategies, processes, and tools to gain a literacy of place, which like the delta itself, embraces multiple threads and a constantly changing course. Delta Dialogues discusses site-reading methods that teach us to read between these rigid lines.

Product details

• Publisher: GTA Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9783856763688
• ISBN: 978-3-85676-368-8
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 8 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 174 g
• Illustrations: ca. 20 Abbildungen
• Series: Pamphlet; PAMPHLET; Pamphlet / Publikationsreihe des Instituts für Landschaftsarchitektur ILA, ETH Zürich
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landschaftsarchitektur, Europa, für die Hochschulausbildung, Architektur: berufliche Praxis, Flussmündung, Entwurfsmethode, Deltalandschaft