FUTURE ANTERIOR volume III no.1
Columbia University GSAPP Historic Preservation Program (Summer 2006)

Design with Culture, a collection of essays edited by Charles Birnbaum and Mary Hughes, represents a cross-section of current thinking in landscape preservation. At the same time, it provides a retroactive history of the landscape preservation movement from 1890 to 1950, a period in which the American territory was facing heretofore unknown pressures relative to the modernization of the territory in the form of highway construction, mass car ownership, and large land use development patterns... 

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LAND FORUM no.14
Spacemaker Press (2002) 

Part biography, part monograph, Udo weilacher’s Visionary Gardens: Landscape by Ernst Cramer portrays one designer’s search for a modern language of landscape architecture. Born in 1898 and practicing until his death in 1980, Cramer’s life spanned the twentieth century, and his work evolved considerably in response to pressures from art and ecology, nativism and the international school. Visionary Gardens situates Cramer’s projects within a broad cultural milieu, tracing his path from romantic horticulturist to modernist garden designer to teacher of "pure form" at the Athenaeum in Lausanne...

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LAND FORUM no.7
Spacemaker Press (1999)

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LAND FORUM no.04
Spacemaker Press (1998)


The term "landscape architecture" implies a peaceful coexistence of contradictory ideas:  soft/hard low/high, outside/inside, ground/figure. Many contemporary theorists have been concerned with such dualisms: How do we reconcile mind and body, the mental and physical worlds? In his new book Unnatural Horizons Allen Weiss suggests that it is this very ‘paradoxical’ condition that can provide a blueprint far a new way of thinking about and mating landscape architecture, one that "escapes all formalist definition." Weiss appropriates the work of artists and sculptors such as Robert Smithson into his vision of landscape architecture and then creates a history for these "non-sites" - works that simultaneously disrupt and reveal the original site - through a series of five essays... 
 

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