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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Edition: GTA Verlag
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9783856763688
• ISBN: 978-3-85676-368-8
• Pages: 80
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 8 mm x 233 mm
• Poids: 174 g
• Illustrations: ca. 20 Abbildungen
• Thèmes: Pamphlet; PAMPHLET; Pamphlet / Publikationsreihe des Instituts für Landschaftsarchitektur ILA, ETH Zürich
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Architecture; Landschaftsarchitektur, Europa, für die Hochschulausbildung, Architektur: berufliche Praxis, Flussmündung, Entwurfsmethode, Deltalandschaft