The landscape imagination : collected essays of James Corner, 1990-2010

The landscape imagination Collected essays of James Corner, 1990-2010

James Corner, 1961-

Book - 2014

Over the past two decades, James Corner has reinvented the field of landscape architecture. His highly influential writings of the 1990s--included in our bestselling Recovering Landscape--together with a post-millennial series of built projects, such as New York's celebrated High Line, prove that the best way to address the problems facing our cities is to embrace their industrial past. Collecting Corner's written scholarship from the early 1990s through 2010, The Landscape Imagination addresses critical issues in landscape architecture and reflects on how his writings have informed the built work of his thriving New York-based practice, Field Operations.

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Subjects
Landscape architecture.
Published
New York : Princeton Architectural Press [2014]
Language
English
Main Author
James Corner, 1961- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
367 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-367).
ISBN
9781616891459
  • Theory and poiesis. Critical thinking and landscape architecture, 1991 ; A discourse on theory I: "sounding the depths"-origins, theory, and representation, 1990 ; A discourse on theory II: three tyrannies of contemporary theory and the alternative of hermeneutics, 1991 ; Recovering landscape as a critical cultural practice, 1999
  • Representation and creativity. Aerial representation, 1996, and Irony and contradiction in an age of precision, 1996 ; Representation and landscape: drawing and making in the landscape medium, 1992 ; The agency of mapping: speculation, critique and invention, 1999 ; Eidetic operations and new landscapes, 1999 ; Ecology and landscape as agents of creativity, 1997
  • Landscape urbanism. Not unlike life itself: landscape strategy now, 2004 ; Landscape urbanism, 2003 ; Lifescraping, 2001 ; Terra fluxus, 2006
  • Practice. Field operations landscape architecture and urban design, New York, 2010 ; Botanical urbanism: a new project for the botanical garden at the Univ. of Puerto Rico, 2005 ; Hunt's haunts: history, reception, and criticism on the design of the High Line, 2009.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Landscape architect Corner (founder and director of James Corner Field Operations) is a strong advocate for the relevance and potential of the art. His work on New York City's High Line, the elevated railroad track turned verdurous park, has raised the profession's visibility and influence markedly. This polished, incisive collection marks a related accomplishment for the discipline. Beginning in 1990, when landscape architecture was split between ecologists and artists, and both occupied a critical vacuum, Corner developed an intellectual framework that helped liberate the field. Throughout these lucid essays, he argues that landscape architecture has "a profound role to play in the reconstitution of meaning and value in our modern cities and communities." Landscape architects can intercede in urban, social, and environmental issues by appealing to the collective imagination where such problems originate. Neatly divided into four sections-theory, representation and creativity, landscape urbanism, and practice-the essays are immensely valuable for assessing how the discourse has evolved. 160 b&w illus. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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