Landscape As Dialogue - A New Approach to Site Analysis and Design

This book examines the process of landscape dialogue as a natural give and take with the environment, offering a series of practical steps and techniques that designers can use in understanding the landscape. Case studies from the US, Japan, China, Mexico, Turkey, and Peru explore the book's lessons in practice.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The landscape speaks - the problem of "site" 2. Landscape information - the problem of analysis 3. Landscape perception and motion 4. Landscape immersion - Time in the landscape 5. Landscape relations - how connections structure dialogue 6. Landscape critique - critical engagement and violence 7. Landscape dissent - transgression, protest and the body 8. Landscape formation - openness to personal change Conclusion

About the author

Cory Parker is a landscape architect and geographer who teaches at the University of California, Davis.

Summary

This book examines the process of landscape dialogue as a natural give and take with the environment, offering a series of practical steps and techniques that designers can use in understanding the landscape. Case studies from the US, Japan, China, Mexico, Turkey, and Peru explore the book’s lessons in practice.

Product details

• Authors: Cory Parker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2025
• EAN: 9780367746551
• ISBN: 978-0-367-74655-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Climate Change, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General, GARDENING / Essays & Narratives, Applied ecology, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Landscape architecture and design, Civil engineering, surveying and building