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LAR 388L, lecture course Prof. Mirka Beneš Spring semester 2012 Office hrs: Mondays 12-2pm. Mon-Wed 9:30-11am Office: Sutton Hall 3.138 Room: GOL 3.120 Office tel: (512) 232-7384 [email protected]

T.A.: Natsumi Nonaka, Ph.D. Program. Office hrs. & location.: TBA. email: [email protected]

LAR 388K / ARC 388 R / ARC 368 R:

History and Theories of Landscape Architecture--II:

Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1750 to the 1990s.

Spring Semester 2012

Course Description

LAR 388L is a lecture course that continues History and Theories of Landscape Architecture I (Antiquity to 1750); it covers the formal and cultural history of gardens, parks and public landscapes from 1750 to the 1990s. The course thus ranges from the theories and practice of the Picturesque in 18th-century English landscape gardens to contemporary urban parks, worldwide. The focus is on understanding the critical components of design language, as well as contemporary discourses on landscape architecture. It seeks to identify and discuss the theoretical frameworks that structured and enriched the imaginations of the designers and their public, the observers and users of the landscapes. We situate the formation of theories and conceptualizations of modern designed landscapes in specific historical contexts. The multivalent forms of modern and contemporary landscape architecture, which cross borders with art, architecture and urban planning, technology, philosophy and geography, amongst others, are examined in the contexts of public and private spheres, relations between city and countryside, the rise of technology, social reform and ecological concerns during industrialization and urbanization.

The course charts in particular the rise of public landscapes--from the early 19th-century landscaped parks of England and Germany to the public park movement in America, to contemporary developments. Attention will be given to the evolution of modernism in landscape architecture, its origins in Europe and America from the 1910s to its later expression in the 1960s and 1970s. Lectures will analyze the typologies of designed landscapes and the notion of the profession of landscape architecture from "Capability Brown", Humphry Repton, Karl-Friedrich Schinkel, Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., to Gertrude Jekyll, Beatrix Farrand, and on to Leberecht Migge, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Thomas Church, Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, Lawrence Halprin, among others. We will attempt to interpret the work of contemporary designers from the period called "Post-Modernism" to recent times.

Throughout the course, we will consider the new thinking about landscape and landscape architecture that has occurred in professional and academic circles particularly during the last several decades, a period characterized by interdisciplinary thinking in both professional practice and academic research, which brings together landscape architecture and other disciplines--such as geography, history, sociology, and architecture.

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Through the study of history and theories, this course structures the range of conceptual categories and contexts, which are specific to the designing of works of landscape architecture. The key underlying question is: how does one conceptualize the design of a work of landscape architecture? what are the relevant issues and contexts at hand? Four frameworks are engaged to structure the course material: 1. Historical and Theoretical Frameworks: Categories of Reference. 2. The Formation of Landscape Architecture as a Discipline and as a Profession. 3. The Inscription of Meanings in Landscape Architecture: Theoretical-Cultural Interpretation 4. The Relevance of History for the Contemporary Field of Design.

Goals of the Course:

On a broad level, the course encourages the situating of designed sites and their conceptualization in historical or modern contexts, the recognition of their multivalent character and the fundamental social and interdisciplinary nature of their production, which engages variously with the spheres of art, architecture, urbanism and planning, ecological and geographical systems, among others. On a theoretical and methodological level, the course readings encourage an evaluation of the new thinking about landscape and landscape architecture that has occurred in professional and academic circles particularly during the last several decades, a period characterized by interdisciplinary thinking in both professional practice and academic research, which brings together landscape architecture and other disciplines--geography, history, sociology, art, architecture, and science.

Lectures, Discussion, and Discussion Sections:

Handouts: Handouts with sites and dates will be distributed to accompany lectures.

Discussions: Discussion takes place in the classroom, and students are encouraged to ask questions. Some sessions are devoted to reviewing previously seen material.

Field Trips: One or more lectures (field trips on campus) will have a seminar format making use of the university's rich resources in rare book rooms, museums, and archives, among them the Harry Ransom Center (rare books and maps). Such field trips vary from year to year.

Class attendance is mandatory, and forms part of your grade for this course.

It is mandatory, unless exemption has been given in advance by the instructor for excusable absences. Students with three (3) or more unexcused absences are subject to lowering of the final grade for the course. Please contact the T.A. or the instructor by email in advance, if you expect to be absent.

Time Commitment of Students:

Includes class time (lectures and discussions), plus about four (4) hours (varies) of weekly reading. Additional time for study, reading and preparation for projects. The course assignments are spaced across the semester, and the instructor attempts to accomodate deadlines for the class in view of specific studio deadlines that students may have.

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Basis of Final Grade and Assignments:

Class Participation: Discussions, questions...... 5 %

1. Short Project: Studies in the Picturesque: 18th and 19th centuries. Short Essay of 4 pages, plus Images, Bibliography, and a Drawing...... 25 %

2. Mid-Term Exam: Exam in-class (1 hour 20 min) with 5 comparative slide-identifications (10 images) and short written essay in class...... 30 %

3. Final Project: This Short Essay project trains the student in conducting scholarly research in Modern and Contemporary Landscape Architecture; Essay of 10 pages, plus Images and Bibliography...... 40 %

There is no Final Exam in this course; the Final Essay serves as the concluding project.

Due Dates of Assignments:

1. Short Project:: due 2/15/12 (Wed), in class, hand to T.A., GOL 3.120.

2. Mid-Term Exam: on 3/19/12 (Mon), in class, hand to T.A., GOL 3.120.

3. Final Project: due 4/23/12 (Mon), in class, hand to T.A., GOL 3.120.

Grading Policy and Grade Descriptions:

A = excellent work that displays conceptual rigor, original research, and insights and ideas that tend to go beyond those presented by the readings or by the instructor in class; excellent writing and superb presentation of the project in terms of Bibliography, Notes, Images. The assignment or essay has a rigorously supported argument. Readings are strongly engaged in the assignment, and the student takes a position with respect to them, successfully critiquing or building on them.

B = good work that displays thorough understanding of the material and successful completion of the assignment, very good writing, diligent research, fine presentation of the project in terms of Bibliography, Notes, Images. The assignment or essay has an argument that is clear to the reader. Readings are very well engaged in the assignment.

C = satisfactory work that meets the minimum requirements of the assignment, displays no further pursuit of ideas presented in class and in readings, displays limitations in skills, writing, conceptualization, and presentation of project. The argument of the essay or assignment is not clearly presented. Readings are minimally brought into the assignment.

D = poor work that does not meet the minimum requirements of the assignment and does not meet the level of skills required to complete the assignment in terms of conceptualization, writing, and presentation. No attempt to structure an argument is made. Readings are not well understood and are not even minimally brought into the assignment.

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F = unacceptable, failing work that includes incomplete assignment or major parts of it, unacceptable delays in turning in the work, unsuccessful performance overall.

Important Guidelines and Rules:

All assignments not done in class must be typed. Bibliography, footnotes and a minimum number of illustrations must ALWAYS be included.

All assignments MUST be submitted to the instructor in hard copy. The instructor will not accept assignments sent only by email.

NO late work will be accepted: A "Fail" Grade will be given for any late assignment.

Honor Code for the University of Texas:

The core values of The University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity, and responsibility. Each member of the university is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and respect toward peers and community.

Honor Code for this Course:

Each student in this course is expected to abide by this Honor Code, and any work submitted by a student will be the student's own work. You are encouraged to study together and to discuss information and concepts covered in this course, but you should never copy from one another or from anyone else, be it from printed and/or published work, or from any digital form or from the internet. Any transgressors on an assignment shall receive a "Fail" Grade for that assignment.

Academic Accomodations:

The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, please contact the Office of the Dean of Students, as soon as possible, at (512) 471-6259 or (512) 471-6441 TTY, also to request an official letter outlining authorized accommodations.

Readings:

Readings consist of Required Readings and Recommended Readings (distributed in a separate handout).

All Required Readings are located under Course Documents on BLACKBOARD at http: //courses.utexas.edu. The original books for nearly all Required Readings are also on Reserve in the Architecture & Planning Library, Battle Hall, and are to be used also for required Assignments. The Course Readings have been very carefully chosen and balanced with each other, in order to provide the

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greatest range of historical, aesthetic, philosophical, geographical approaches that regard the periods studied. Most of the readings have become "classics" in the literature.

Students may wish to supplement their assigned Course Readings with a textbook, and the following is recommended: Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (New York, 2001). [in paperback]

Students are responsible for information and concepts in the Required Readings, which are posted on Blackboard under Course Documents at http: //courses.utexas.edu. Other additional recommended readings are available as electronic texts at the website of Dumbarton Oaks Center for Studies in Landscape Architecture, Washington, D.C.: www.doaks.org/Etexts.html.

The instructor appreciates the fact that, given the student's commitment to studio time, not all Required Readings can be done immediately, at the time of the lectures. Therefore, on this Syllabus, the essential readings are highlighted in bold; the other Required Readings can be read as time permits, but before exam times.

The Course Reserves at the Architecture & Planning Library:

The actual books for nearly all Required Readings are also on Reserve in the Architecture & Planning Library, Battle Hall, and are to be used also for required Assignments. The Course Readings have been very carefully chosen and balanced with each other, in order to provide the greatest range of historical, aesthetic, philosophical, geographical approaches that regard the periods studied. Many of the readings have become "classics" in the literature.

A selection of other books of interest are available on Reserve, for student research projects.

The UT and SOA Libraries's Listing of Reserve Readings:

Be sure to check for readings under all categories--e.g. author, editor, and title, as the Reserve/Circulation desk may list books variously. For example, the following two books, both by the same author, may not appear under the author's name, for example Wilson or Groth, but instead under the title of the edited volume, e.g.:

Wilson, Chris, and Paul Groth, eds. Everyday America. Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson, eds. Chris Wilson and Paul Groth (Berkeley-Los Angeles, 2003); or: Everyday America. Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson, eds. Chris Wilson and Paul Groth (Berkeley-Los Angeles, 2003).

At the end of this Syllabus is an APPENDIX ON REFERENCE MATERIALS & TEXTBOOKS, and Suggestions for Readings on Theoretical and Methodological Issues.

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SCHEDULE OF LECTURES

I. The Origins of the Picturesque.

01/18 Wed Lecture 1 Introduction and Overview of the Course.

01/23 Mon Lecture 2 England, I: 1650-1700. Transformation of the English Formal Garden. The Landscape Garden: Eclecticism and a New Syntax for the Language of Design.

01/25 Wed Lecture 3 England, II: 1700-1750. William Kent, Lord Burlington, and English Palladianism. Rousham and Chiswick. Origins of the Picturesque.

Assignment # 1 handed out today in class: Studies in the Picturesque.

01/30 Mon Lecture 4 England, III: 1750-1770. Two Classes of Memories in Henry Hoare's Stourhead and Richard Cobham's Stowe. English landscape painting and gardening in the time of "Capability" Brown.

II. Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries, 1770 - 1830.

02/01 Wed Lecture 5 England & America, IV: 1770-1830. Humphry Repton (1752-1818) and the Profession of Landscape Gardener. Politics of the Picturesque and Modernity.

02/06 Mon Lecture 6 France 1770-1830. The Aristocratic Picturesque before and after the French Revolution. Girardin, Ermenonville, Monceau. Hubert Robert.

02/08 Wed Lecture 7 Germany 1770-1830. The Rise of Capital Cities and the Picturesque goes Public. The Urban Public Sphere. Friedrich Schinkel and Peter-J. Lenné in Berlin.

III. Mid 19th Century, 1830 - 1880.

02/13 Mon Lecture 8 England 1830-1880. Development of the Suburb and the Public Park. John Nash, John Claudius Loudon, Joseph Paxton.

02/15 Wed Lecture 9 France 1830-1880. Transformation of Paris and Nature in the City, Baron Haussmann, Alphonse Alphand, the Parks and Promenades.

Assignment # 1 due today in class: Studies in the Picturesque.

02/20 Mon Lecture 10--Group A. United States 1830-1880. The Training and Education of the Landscape Architect: Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., and the Culture of Books and Treatises. Harry Ransom Center, Seminar, Group A.

02/22 Wed Lecture 10--Group B. United States 1830-1880. The Training and Education of the Landscape Architect: Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., and the Culture of Books and Treatises. Harry Ransom Center, Seminar, Group B.

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02/27 Mon Lecture 11 United States 1830-1880. Synthetic Professional Practice: Frederick Law Omsted.

IV. Late 19th and Early 20th Century, 1880 - 1940.

02/29 Wed Lecture 12 England 1880-1940. Modern Gardens and Englishness. William Robinson and Reginald Blomfield, Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens.

03/05 Mon Lecture 13 United States 1880-1940. The Country Place Era before and after the Depression: Charles Platt, Beatrix Farrand, Jens Jensen. Infrastructure up to the New Deal (1933-38): Charles Eliot, Garden Cities, Parkways.

03/07 Wed Lecture 14 France 1880-1940. French Modernism. André Vera to Jean Forestier. The Expositions Intérnationales of 1925 and 1937.

03/12 Mon NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK.

03/14 Wed NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK.

03/19 Mon MID-TERM EXAM IN CLASS.

Assignment # 2 today in class: Mid-Term Exam.

V. New Paradigms in Design, 1880 - 1945.

03/21 Wed Lecture 15 Germany, 1880-1940. Modern Society, Community, Planning, Political Uses of Ecology. Architekturgarten, Naturgarten, Autobahn. Hermann Muthesius, Leberecht Migge.

03/26 Mon Lecture 17 Le Corbusier, 1910-1945.

Assignment # 3 handed out today in class: Final Essay Project.

03/28 Wed NO CLASS: Instructor gives talk at conference.

04/02 Mon Lecture 18 Mies van der Rohe, 1910-1945.

04/04 Wed Lecture 19 Asplund and Lewerentz: the Stockhom Cemetery, 1910-1945.

04/09 Mon Lecture 20 United States, 1930-1945. Modernism arrives during the Depression. Infrastructure and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Fletcher Steele, Thomas Church.

04/11 Wed Lecture 21 International Modernism. The Year 1937--Christopher Tunnard in England and the USA. Dan Kiley, Garrett Eckbo, James Rose. Rose, 1937-1950.

VI. Post-World War II, 1945 - 1985.

04/16 Mon Lecture 22 United States, 1945-1965. Modernism, Suburban, Domestic, and Urban. Thomas Church, James Rose, Dan Kiley. Philip Johnson and the MoMA Garden.

04/18 Wed Lecture 23. Latin America, 1945-1985. Luis Barragan, Roberto Burle-Marx.

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04/23 Mon Lecture 24 The Impact of Conceptual Art and Linguistics. La Villette Competition 1982-83 in Paris and its Consequences. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin.

Assignment # 3 due today in class: Final Essay Project.

VII. The Contemporary Field (1985-2000).

04/25 Wed Lecture 25 Post-Modernism in Landscape Architecture? The 1980s and 1990s in the United States and Europe.

04/30 Mon Lecture 26 Urban Expansion, Environment and Ecology. The Beginnings of Environmental Design. Ian McHarg and his Legacy, 1955-1985-2000. Guest-lecture by Dean Fritz Steiner.

05/02 Wed Lecture 27 Summary: Thinking about Landscape Architecture Today.

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SCHEDULE OF READINGS

N.B. The Required readings of top priority are highlighted in bold.

I. The Origins of the Picturesque.

01/18 Wed Lecture 1 Introduction and Overview of the Course.

Required: Groth, Paul, and Chris Wilson. "The Polyphony of Cultural Landscape Study: An Introduction," in: Everyday America. Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson, eds. Chris Wilson and Paul Groth (Berkeley-Los Angeles, 2003), 1-22, and notes on pp. 309-319. [read online at UT Library Catalog: http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu; also will be on Blackboard] Herrington, Susan. "Framed Again: The Picturesque Aesthetics of Contemporary Landscapes," Landscape Journal 25:1 (2006), 22-37. [on Blackboard]

01/23 Mon Lecture 2 England, I: 1650-1700. Transformation of the English Formal Garden. Military Gardening and the Great Estates: Castle Howard, Blenheim, Stephen Switzer, Alexander Pope. The Landscape Garden: Eclecticism and a New Syntax for the Language of Design.

Required:

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Hunt, John Dixon and Peter Willis. The Genius of the Place. The English Landscape Garden 1620- 1820 (New York, 1975), paperback ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988), 1-45. [on Blackboard] Williamson, Tom. "Estate Management and Landscape Design," in Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England 1690-1730, eds. Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams (2000), 12-30. [on Blackboard] OR: Worsley, Giles. "'After ye Antique': Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor and Kent," in Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England 1690-1730, eds. Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams. (Thrupp: Sutton Publishing, with the National Trust, 2000), 131-153. [on Blackboard] OR: Laird, Mark. "Exotics and Botanical Illustration," in Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England 1690-1730, eds. Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams (2000), 93-113. [on Blackboard]

01/25 Wed Lecture 3 England, II: 1700-1750. William Kent, Lord Burlington, and English Palladianism. Rousham and Chiswick. Origins of the Picturesque.

Assignment # 1 handed out today in class: Studies in the Picturesque.

Required: Hunt, John. "Verbal versus Visual Meanings in Garden History: The Case of Rousham," in: Garden History. Issues, Approaches, Methods, ed. John Dixon Hunt (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1992), 151-181. [on Blackboard] Hunt, John Dixon and Peter Willis, The Genius of the Place, (1975) 1988: Read two authors from these excerpts from essayists and theorists: 96-99 (William Temple); 228-232 (Castle Howard); 122- 124 (Shaftsbury); 138-147 (Addison); 187-190 (Castell); 204-214 (Alexander Pope); 151-163 (Stephen Switzer); 178-186 (Batty Langley). [On Blackboard.] Williams, Raymond. Keywords (Oxford 1973), brief entries on "Class," "Culture," "History," "Ideology," Nature," "Theory." [on Blackboard]

01/30 Mon Lecture 4 England, III: 1750-1770. Two Classes of Memories in Henry Hoare's Stourhead and Richard Cobham's Stowe. English landscape painting and gardening in the time of "Capability" Brown.

Required: Hunt, John Dixon. The Picturesque Garden in Europe (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002), Ch. 3: "The picturesque climax: theory and practice," 60-89, and bibliographical essay, 200. [on Blackboard] Williamson, Tom. Polite Landscapes. Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England, (Baltimore, 1995), Ch. 4: "The Age of Brown," 77-99, and notes, 173-74. [on Blackboard] When you have time, read: Daniels, Stephen. et al. "Landscaping and Estate Management in Later Georgian England," in: Garden History: Issues, Approaches, Methods, ed. John Dixon Hunt (Washington, D.C., 1992), 359-371. Laird, Mark. "Ornamental Planting and Horticulture in English Pleasure Grounds, 1700-1830," in: Garden History. Issues, Approaches, Methods, ed. John Dixon Hunt (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks) (Colloquium XIII), 243-277. [on Blackboard]

II. Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries, 1770 - 1830.

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02/01 Wed Lecture 5 England, IV: 1770-1830. Humphry Repton (1752-1818) and the Profession of Landscape Gardener. Politics of the Picturesque. Modernity--A New Notion. Repton's effect in America, Thomas Jefferson.

Required: Daniels, Stephen. Humphry Repton: landscape gardening and the geography of Georgian England (New Haven-London, 1999), Introduction, Ch. 1: "On the Road," 1-25. [on Blackboard] Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826). "Memorandums Made on a Tour to Some of the Gardens in England" (1786), in: The Genius of the Place. The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820, eds. John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), 333-336. Gilpin, William. excerpt from "Remarks on Forest Scenery" (1791), in: Hunt and Willis, eds. The Genius of the Place (Cambridge, MA, 1988), 337-41. [on Blackboard] Price, Uvedale. excerpt from "An Essay on the Picturesque" (1794), in: Hunt-Willis, 351-57. [on Blackboard] O'Malley, Therese. "The Lawn in Early American Landscape and Garden Design," in: The American Lawn, ed. Georges Teyssot (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), 64- 87. [on Blackboard]

02/06 Mon Lecture 6 France 1770-1830. The Aristocratic Picturesque before and after the French Revolution. Girardin, Ermenonville, Monceau. Hubert Robert.

Required: Cleary, Richard. "Making Breathing Room: Public Gardens and City Planning in Eighteenth- Century France," in: Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art, eds. John Dixon Hunt and Michel Conan (Philadelphia, 2002), 68-81. [on Blackboard] Hunt, John Dixon. The Picturesque Garden in Europe (London, 2002), Ch. 5: "French picturesque in practice," 104-139, and bibliographical essay for Ch. 5, 200-202. [on Blackboard] Vidler, Anthony. "Introduction," to his The Writing of the Walls. Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment (Princeton, 1987), 1-5. [on Blackboard]

02/08 Wed Lecture 7 Germany 1770-1830. The Rise of Capital Cities and the Picturesque goes Public. The Urban Public Sphere. Friedrich Schinkel and Peter-J. Lenné in Berlin.

Required: Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge, Mass., 1989), 1-12, 27-33, 55-56. Parshall, Linda. "Motion and Emotion in C.C.L. Hirschfeld's Theory of Garden Art,"in: Landscape and the Experience of Motion, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2003), 35-51. [read Online at www.doaks.org/ Etexts.html; also on Blackboard] Vogtherr, Christoph Martin. "Views and Approaches: Schinkel and Landscape Gardening," in Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1781-1841. The Drama of Architecture, ed. John Zukowsky, (Berlin-Chicago, 1994), 68-83. [on Blackboard]

III. Mid 19th Century, 1830 - 1880.

02/13 Mon Lecture 8 England 1830-1880. Development of the Suburb and the Public Park. John Nash, John Claudius Loudon, Joseph Paxton.

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Required: Fishman, Robert L. "American Suburbs/English Suburbs: A Transatlantic Comparison", Journal of Urban History 13:3 (May 1987), 237-251. [on Blackboard] Schenker, Heath. "Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century," in Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002), 337-360. [read Online at www.doaks.org/etexts.html]

02/15 Wed Lecture 9 France 1830-1880. Transformation of Paris and Nature in the City, Baron Haussmann, Alphonse Alphand, the Parks and Promenades.

Assignment # 1 due today in class: Studies in the Picturesque.

Required: Joest, Thomas von. "Haussmann's Paris: A Green Metropolis?," in: The Architecture of Western Gardens, eds. Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1991), 387- 398. [on Blackboard] Meyer, Elizabeth K. "The Public Park as Avante-Garde (Landscape) Architecture: A Comparative Interpretation of Two Parisian Parks, Parc de la Villette (1983-1990) and Parc des Buttes- Chaumont (1864-1867)," Landscape Journal 10:1 (Spring 1991), 16-26. [on Blackboard]

02/20 Mon Lecture 10 United States 1830-1880. The Training and Education of the Landscape Architect: Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., and the Culture of Books and Treatises. Harry Ransom Center, Seminar, Group A.

Group A: Meet at 9:30am at Ransom Center, 2nd floor, Reception area, for Seminar.

Required: Ponte, Alessandra. "Public Parks in Great Britain and the United States: From a `Spirit of the Place' to a `Spirit of Civilization'," in: The Architecture of Western Gardens, eds. Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991), 373-86. [on Blackboard] Ackerman, James S. "On Public Landscape Design Before the Civil War, 1830-1860," in: Regional Garden Design in the United States, eds. Therese O'Malley and Marc Treib (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995), 191-207. [on Blackboard] For your interest: Cellauro, Louis. "Thomas Jefferson and his books on architecture and landscape gardening," Aurora 5 (2004), 82-124. [to be placed if possible on Blackboard]

02/22 Wed Lecture 10 United States 1830-1880. The Training and Education of the Landscape Architect: Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., and the Culture of Books and Treatises. Harry Ransom Center, Seminar, Group B.

Group B: Meet at 9:30am at Ransom Center, 2nd floor, Reception area, for Seminar.

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Ackerman, James S. "On Public Landscape Design Before the Civil War, 1830-1860," in: Regional Garden Design in the United States, eds. Therese O'Malley and Marc Treib (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995), 191-207. [on Blackboard] For your interest: Cellauro, Louis. "Thomas Jefferson and his books on architecture and landscape gardening," Aurora 5 (2004), 82-124. [on Blackboard]

02/27 Mon Lecture 11 United States 1830-1880. Synthetic Professional Practice: Frederick Law Omsted. Required: Beveridge, Charles E. "Regionalism in Frederick Law Olmsted's Social Thought and Landscape Design Practice," in: Regional Garden Design in the United States, eds. T. O'Malley and Marc Treib (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995), 209-41. [on Blackboard] Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System (Cambridge, Mass.-London: Harvard University Press, 1982), new ed. (1992), Ch. II: "The Making of a Landscape Architect," 19-32. [on Blackboard]

IV. Late 19th and Early 20th Century, 1880 - 1940.

02/29 Wed Lecture 12 England 1880-1940. Modern Gardens and Englishness. William Robinson and Reginald Blomfield, Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens.

Required: Helmreich, Anne. "Re-presenting Nature: Ideology, Art, and Science in William Robinson's `Wild Garden,'" in Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, ed. Nature and Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the Twentieth Century (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1997), 81-111. [on Blackboard] Wood, Martin. "Gertrude Jekyll's Munstead Wood," in: Gertrude Jekyll. Essays on the life of a working amateur, eds. Michael Tooley and Primrose Arnander. (Durham, England: Michaelmas Books, 1995), Ch. 7: 84-112 and notes, 230-231. [on Blackboard]

Required: Davidson, Rebecca Warren. "Charles A. Platt and the Fine Art of Landscape Design," in: Shaping an American Landscape: the art and architecture of Charles A. Platt, ed. Keith N. Morgan (Hanover, NH, 1995), 75-95. [on Blackboard] Gorlin, Alex. "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Italian Villa," A+U (October 1990), 44-57. [on Blackboard] Grese, Robert E. "The Prairie Gardens of O.C. Simonds and Jens Jensen," in: Regional Garden Design in the United States, eds. Therese O'Malley and Marc Treib (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995), 99-123. [on Blackboard] McGuire, Diane Kostial, ed. Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980)., v-vix, xxi-xxiii. [on Blackboard] [Full book can be read Online at www.doaks.org/ Etexts.html]

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03/07 Wed Lecture 14 France 1880-1940. French Modernism. André Vera to Jean Forestier. The Expositions Intérnationales of 1925 and 1937.

Required: Dodds, George. "Freedom from the Garden. Gabriel Guévrékian and a New Territory of Experience" in: Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art, eds. John Dixon Hunt and Michel Conan (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), Ch. 10, 184-202. [on Blackboard] Imbert, Dorothée. "French visions of the modern garden," Die Gartenkunst 7:2 (1995), 255-67. [we will try to place on Blackboard] Steele, Fletcher. "New Pioneering in Garden Design", Landscape Architecture, (April 1930), 159-77. [on Blackboard]

03/12 Mon NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK.

03/14 Wed NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK.

03/19 Mon MID-TERM EXAM-- IN CLASS, GOL 3.120 = Assignment # 2.

V. New Paradigms in Design, 1880 - 1945.

03/21 Wed Lecture 15 Germany, I: 1880-1940. Modern Society, Community, Planning, Political Uses of Ecology. Architekturgarten, Naturgarten, Autobahn. Hermann Muthesius, Leberecht Migge.

Required: Groening, Gert and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. "Changes in the philosophy of [German] garden architecture in the 2Oth century and their impact upon the social and spatial environment", Journal of Garden History 9:2 (1989), 53-70. [on Blackboard] De Michelis, Marco. "The Green Revolution: Leberecht Migge and the Reform of the Garden in Modernist Germany," In: The Architecture of Western Gardens, edits. Mosser and Teyssot (Cambridge, Mass., 1991), 409-420. [on Blackboard] Haney, David. "Leberecht Migge's 'Green Manifesto': Envisioning a Revolution of Gardens," Landscape Journal 26:2 (2007), 201-218. [on Blackboard] Schneider, Uwe. "Hermann Muthesius and the Introduction of the English Arts & Crafts Garden to Germany," Garden History 28:1 (Summer 2000), 57-72. [on Blackboard]

03/26 Mon Lecture 17 Le Corbusier, 1910-1945.

Assignment # 3 handed out today in class: Final Research Project.

Required: Imbert, Dorothée. The Modernist Garden in France (New Haven-London, 1993), Ch. 8: "Le Corbusier. The Landscape Vs. The Garden," 147-183, and notes, 236-243. Also see color Plates I-XVII between pp. 208-209. [on Blackboard]

03/28 Wed NO CLASS: Instructor gives talk at conference.

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04/02 Mon Lecture 18 Mies van der Rohe, 1910-1945.

Required: Bergdoll, Barry. "The Nature of Mies's Space," in: Terence Riley and Bary Bergdoll, Mies in Berlin, (New York, 2001), pp. 66-105 and notes on pp. 374-375.[on Blackboard]

04/04 Wed Lecture 19 Asplund and Lewerentz: the Stockhom Cemetery, 1910-1945.

Required: Berrizbeitia, Anita. "The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience," in Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, ed. James Corner (1999), 187-205. [on Blackboard]

04/09 Mon Lecture 20 United States, 1930-1945. Modernism arrives during the Depression and World War II. Infrastructure and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Fletcher Steele, Thomas Church.

Required: Cushman, Gregory T. "Environmental Therapy for Soil and Social Erosion: Landscape Architecture and Depression-Era Highway Construction in Texas," in: Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2000), 45-70. [read Online at www.doaks.org/ Etexts.html] Black, Brian. "Organic Planning: Ecology and Design in the Landscape of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-45," in: Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2000), 71-95. [read Online at www.doaks.org/ Etexts.html]

04/11 Wed Lecture 21 International Modernism. The Year 1937--Christopher Tunnard in England and the USA. Dan Kiley, Garrett Eckbo, James Rose. Rose, 1937-1950s.

Required: Meyer, Elizabeth K. "The Spaces of Landscape Modernism," in: Dan Kiley Landscapes: The Poetry of Space (Richmond: William Stout, 2009), 117-143. [on Blackboard] Neckar, Lance M. "Christopher Tunnard: The Garden in the Modern Landscape," In: Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review, edit. Marc Treib, Cambridge, Mass., 1993, 144-158. [on Blackboard] Rose, James C. "Freedom in the Garden," Pencil Points (October 1938), 639-643; reprinted in Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review, ed. Marc Treib, Cambridge, MA, and London, 1993, 68-70. [on Blackboard]

VI. Post-World War II, 1945 - 1985.

04/16 Mon Lecture 22 United States, 1945-1965. Modernism, Suburban, Domestic, and Urban. Thomas Church, James Rose, Dan Kiley. Philip Johnson and the MoMA Garden.

Required:

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Beneš, Mirka. "A Modern Classic. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden," in Philip Johnson and the Museum of Modern Art, Studies in Modern Art 6 (New York: MoMA, 1998), 104-151. [on Blackboard] Mozingo, Louise. "Campus, Estate, and Park: Lawn Culture Comes to the Corporation," in: Chris Wilson and Paul Groth, eds. Everyday America: cultural landscape studies after J.B. Jackson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), pp. 255-274. [read Online through link on UT Libraries Catalogue--electronic book]

04/18 Wed Lecture 23 Latin America, 1945-1985. Luis Barragan, Roberto Burle-Marx.

Required: Barragan, Luis. "Gardens for Environment. Jardines des Pedregal," Journal of the AIA (April 1952), 167- 172. [on Blackboard] Berrizbeitia, Anita. Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas. Parque del Este, 1956-1961 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), Ch. 3: "Lightness," pp. 60-77 (pp. 69-77 are color plates); 4: "Roberto Burle Marx and the Contemporary Practice of Landscape Architecture," pp. 78-100. [on Blackboard]

04/23 Mon Lecture 24 The Impact of Conceptual Art and Linguistics. La Villette Competition 1982-83 in Paris and its Consequences. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin.

Assignment # 3 due today in class: Final Research Project.

Required: Hunt, John Dixon. "Reinventing the Parisian Park" in: Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art, eds. John Dixon Hunt and Michel Conan (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), Ch. 11: 203-219. [on Blackboard] Krauss, Rosalind E. "Sculpture in the Expanded Field," in her The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge, MA-London: MIT, 1985), 277-290. [on Blackboard]

VII. The Contemporary Field (1985-2000).

04/25 Wed Lecture 25 Lecture 26 Post-Modernism in Landscape Architecture? The 1980s and 1990s in the United States and Europe.

Required: Corner, James. "The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention," in: Mappings, ed. Denis Cosgrove (London, 1999), 213-252. [on Blackboard] Meyer, Elizabeth K. "The Post-Earth Day Conundrum: Translating Environmental Values into Landscape Design," in: Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2000), 187-244. [on Blackboard; also read Online at www.doaks.org/ Etexts.html] Rainey, Reuben M. "Environmental Ethics and Park Design: A Case Study of Byxbee Park," Journal of Garden History, 14:3 (Autumn 1994), 171-178. [George Hargreaves] [on Blackboard] study--on Course Reserves: Berrizbeitia, Anita, and Linda Pollak. Inside/Outside. Between Architecture and Landscape (Gloucester, MA: Rockport, 1999).

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04/30 Mon Lecture 26 Urban Expansion, Environment and Ecology. The Beginnings of Environmental Design. Ian McHarg, Richard Haag, Lawrence Halprin: 1955-1985. Possible guest lecturer: Dean Frederick R. Steiner.

Required: McHarg, Ian L. Design with Nature (Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press, 1969). [Look at the book in the Arch Library Reserves, read sections when you can]. Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Ian McHarg, Landscape Architecture, and Environmentalism: Ideas and Methods in Context," in: Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2000), 97-114. [on Blackboard; also read Online at www.doaks.org/ Etexts.html]

05/02 Wed Lecture 27 Summary: Thinking about Landscape Architecture Today.

Required: Harris, Dianne. "The Postmodernization of Landscape: A Critical Historiography," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58:3 (1999), pp. 434-443. Herrington, Susan. "Framed Again: The Picturesque Aesthetics of Contemporary Landscapes," Landscape Journal 25:1 (2006), 22-37. [on Blackboard] Pollak, Linda. "Constructed Ground: Questions of Scale," in: The Landscape Urbanism Reader, ed. Charles Waldheim (New York: Princeton Archit. Press, 2006), 125-139.[on Blackboard]

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APPENDIX ON REFERENCE MATERIALS & TEXTBOOKS

Highly recommended Reference site for History of Landscape Architecture: www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/histland.html: University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design Library, a leading reference site with key publications listed, suggestions on "how to get started in research," etc.

Recommendation of a book on resesarch in landcape architecture:

Deming, M. Elen and Simon Swaffield. Landscape Architecture Research: Inquiry, Strategy, Design (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011).

Recommendation of a recent, introductory text--useful also for historical overview:

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (New York, 2001). [P = in paperback]

Recommendation of a "classic", written by a landscape architect:

Jellicoe, Geoffrey and Susan. The Landscape of Man. Shaping the Environment from Pre-history to the Present (New York-London, 1982). [P]

Texts recommended for purchase, now or in future -- across your careers! -- depending on your field s of interest:

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A wide range of book prices exist on the Internet, so we recommend that you search for used or new copies at the sites of Barnes & Noble and www.amazon.com, as well as: www.abebooks.com, www.half.com, www.bibliofind.com, www.bookfinder.com

General texts: You may enjoy purchasing one of these overview or introductory texts: Hobhouse, Penelope. The Story of Gardening (London-New York: DK Pub. 2002). *possibly [P] Hobhouse, Penelope. Penelope Hobhouse's Gardening Through the Ages. An Illustrated History of Plants and Their Influence on Garden Styles--from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day (New York- London, 1992). *possibly [P] Jellicoe, Geoffrey and Susan. The Landscape of Man. Shaping the Environment from Pre-history to the Present (New York-London, 1982). Pregill, Philip and Nancy Volkman. Landscapes in History. Designing and Planning in the Eastern and Western Tradition, 2d ed. (New York: Wiley, 1999). Teyssot, Georges, and Monique Mosser. eds. The Architecture of Western Gardens (Cambridge, MA- London, 1991). [P]

For the period 1800 to the 1950s: Newton, Norman. Design on the Land. The Development of Landscape Architecture (Cambridge, MA, 1971). [*possibly in [P] by now]

Textbooks

It is suggested that students buy, individually if they like, or in "study groups" (with one copy of the book for 5-10 students) the following texts for the theoretical material of the course:

Berrizbeitia, Anita, and Linda Pollak. Inside/Outside. Between Architecture and Landscape (Gloucester, Mass.: Rockport Publishers, 1999). Corner, James. ed. Recovering Landscape. Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999). Cosgrove, Denis E. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, 1st ed., (London, 1984); new paperback ed. (Madison, WI, 1998), with new "Introductory essay,"xi-xxv. Hunt, John Dixon. The Afterlife of Gardens (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Swaffield, Simon. ed. Theory in Landscape Architecture. A Reader (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).

Recommendation of a recent, introductory historical text--useful also for historical overview of the modern and contemporary periods:

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (New York, 2001), Chs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, pp. 311-513, and Bibliography on pp. 527-533. [P = in paperback]

Recommendation of two historical "classics", written by 20th-century landscape architects:

Jellicoe, Geoffrey and Susan. The Landscape of Man. Shaping the Environment from Pre-history to the Present (New York-London, 1982). [P] Newton, Norman. Design on the Land. The Development of Landscape Architecture (Cambridge, MA, 1971), Chs. XVI-XLII,pp. 221-674. [*possibly in [P] by now]

Texts recommended for purchase, now or in future -- across your careers! -- depending on your field s of interest:

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General texts:

You may enjoy purchasing one of these overview or introductory texts: Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (New York, 2001). [P] Hobhouse, Penelope. The Story of Gardening (London-NY: DK Pub. 2002). *[P possible] Hobhouse, Penelope. Penelope Hobhouse's Gardening Through the Ages. An Illustrated History of Plants and Their Influence on Garden Styles--from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day (New York- London, 1992). *[P possible] Jellicoe, Geoffrey and Susan. The Landscape of Man. Shaping the Environment from Pre-history to the Present (New York-London, 1982). [P] Pregill, Philip and Nancy Volkman. Landscapes in History. Designing and Planning in the Eastern and Western Tradition, 2d ed. (New York: Wiley, 1999). Teyssot, Georges, and Monique Mosser. eds. The Architecture of Western Gardens (Cambridge, MA- London, 1991). [P]

Useful periodicals:

Journal of garden history, 17 vols. (London: Taylor & Francis), Vol. 1:1 (Jan.-Mar. 1981) to Vol. 17:4 (Winter 1997). UT-Arch: SB 451 .J687 v. 1 1981 - v. 17 1997. Studies in the history of gardens & designed landscapes (London-Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis, 1998-), Vol. 18:1 (Jan.-Mar. 1988) - N.B. this journal continues Journal of garden history. Index of article titles is online: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/archive/tgahvol... Pays Paysages; Topos; Die Gartenkunst. Landscape and Urban Planning. An International Journal of Landscape Ecology, Planning and Design. 100th volume Special Issue, 2011, with 32 essays, "by invited authors addressing key substantive, meethodological, or sectoral issues of relevance to the journal, and are grouped into six general areas: Theory and Critique, Foundations for Landscape and Urban Planning, People-Environment Interactions, Urban Ecology, Modeling and Visualization, and Critical and Emerging Issues." Issue 100th volume is online: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 01692046. Also see Library Catalog, Subjects: Gardens--History--Periodicals; Landscape architecture--History-- Periodicals.

Useful timelines:

Carr, Ethan; Jory Johnson; and Susan Herrington (authors). "Timeline of American landscape architecture," Landscape architecture magazine, vol. 89 (1999), a ten-part series of articles presenting decade by decade, a brief history and time-line of 20th century American landscape architecture.

Turner, Tom. Garden History. Philosophy and Design 2000 BC - 2000 AD (London: Routledge, 2004). 304p. 170 line drawings, 400 color illus. In hardcover and in paperback.

Useful online resources and websites: www.society-urban-ecology.org [* newly organized in 2010-11, will hold its First World Congress, in South Africa, in 2013; president is: Jürgen Breuste]

Useful guide to theoretical language/jargon:

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Enn, Ots. Decoding Theory speak. An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory (New York-London: Routledge, 2010).

Routledge guides to theorists'work with implications for designers: see www.routledge.com/architecture/books/series/thinkers_for_architects_THINKARCH

Ballantyne, Andrew. Deleuze & Guattari for Architects (London-New York: Routledge, 2007). Coyne, Richard. Derrida for Architects (London-New York: Routledge, 2011). Elliott, Brian. Benjamin for Architects (London-New York: Routledge, 2010). [* Walter Benjamin] Hernandez, Felipe. Bhabha for Architects (London-New York: Routledge, 2010). [* Homi K. Bhabha's work on postcolonial discourse, focuses on Bhabha's book The Location of Culture.] Rawes, Peg. Irigaray for Architects (London-New York: Routledge, 2007) [* the French femminist theorist, Luce Irigaray]. Sharr, Adam. Heidegger for Architects (London-New York: Routledge, 2007). Webster, Helena. Bourdieu for Architects (London-New York: Routledge, 2010). [* the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu]

Appendix: Suggested for Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Beneš, Mirka. "Teaching History in the School of Design," GSD News, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (Summer 1993), 25-26. Conan, Michel. ed. Perspectives on Garden Histories (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1999). [historiographical essays--Italian, Mughal, English, American gardens, ecology, etc.] Corner, James. "A Discourse on Theory I: `Sounding the Depths'--Origins, Theory, and Representation," Landscape Journal 9:2 (Fall 1990), 60-78. Corner, James. "A Discourse on Theory II: Three Tyrannies of Contemporary Theory and the Alternative of Hermeneutics," Landscape Journal 10:2 (Fall 1991), 115-133. Corner, James. "Representation and landscape: drawing and making in the landscape medium," Word & Image, 8:3 (July-September 1992), 243-274. Corner, James. "The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention," in: Mappings, ed. Denis Cosgrove, London, 1999, 213-252. Corner, James. ed. Recovering Landscape. Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999). Cosgrove, Denis E. "Liminal Geometry and Elemental Landscape: Construction and Representation," in: Corner, James. ed. Recovering Landscape. Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), 103-119. Cosgrove, Denis E. ed. Mappings (London, 1999). Cosgrove, Denis. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (Totowa, N.J., 1984); (2nd ed., Madison, WI, 1998). See esp. the "Introductory Essay for the Paperback Edition," 1998, xi-xxxv. Daniels, Stephen, Dydia DeLyser, J. Nicholas Entrikin, and Doug Richardson, eds. Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds (London-New York: Routledge, 2011). Dee, Catherine. Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture. A Visual Introduction (London-New York: Routledge, 2001). [* an introduction to the discipline for students of landscape architecture] Dee, Catherine. To Design Landscape. Art, Nature, and Utility (London-New York: Routledge, 2011). [on the aesthetics of landscape design, both as practice and cultural reflection] Groth, Paul and Todd W. Bressi, Understanding Ordinary Landscapes, New Haven-London, 1997. Gundaker, Grey. ed. Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Grounds, Charlottesville, VA, 1998. Harris, Dianne. "What History Should We Teach and Why: An Historian Responds," Landscape Journal 16:2 (Fall 1997), 191-196.

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Harris, Dianne. "The Post-modernization of Landscape: A Critical Historiography," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58:3 (September 1999), 434-43. Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity (Baltimore-London, 1989). Herrington, Susan. On Landscapes (London-New York: Routledge, 2008). [series: Thinking in Action] [* on the reception of landscapes and designed landscapes; philosophical approach, considers the effect of landscapes on human emotions, imagination, concerns with the passage of time.] Hunt, John Dixon. Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (Philadelphia, 1999). Hunt, John Dixon. ed. Garden History. Issues, Approaches. Methods (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1992). Jackson, John B. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time, New Haven-London, 1994. Jackson, John B. Landscape in Sight. Looking at America, New Haven-London, 1997. Jorgensen, Anna and Richard Keenan. eds. Urban Wildernesses (London-New York: Routledge, 2011). [* concerned with "evolved" urban landscapes--those left derelict, abandoned, or marginal, and often overgrown with vegetation; their meanings in relation to sustainable approaches to design.] Journal of Garden History, [1980 - 1998 ca]. [Editor: John D. Hunt] From ca. 1998 to current issues, this journal became Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes]. See, among others, the issue on Ethics and Morality, 14:3 (July-September 1994), guest edited by Joachim Wolschke- Bulmahn. Kaminer, Tahl. Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation: The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in late twenieth- century Architecture (London-New York: Routledge, 2011). Land& Scape Series. [see individual titles: Walkscapes; Landscape+100 Words to Inhabit It; Latinscapes; Artscapes; Waterscapes, etc.] Published by G. Gilli, Barcelona, Spain. Lim, C.J. and Ed Liu. Smartcities and Eco-Warriors (London-New York: Routledge, 2010). [ *urban green space, evolution of cities, reintegration of agriculture in urban environment, leading to new spatial practices -- an approach by architects] Marx, Leo. "Does Pastoralism Have a Future?," In: The Pastoral Landscape, edit. John Dixon Hunt, (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), (Hanover-London, 1992), 209-223. Marx, Leo. "The American Ideology of Space," In: Denatured Visions. Landscape and Culture in the Twentieth Century. edits. Stuart Wrede and William Howard Adams, (The Museum of Modern Art), New York, 1991, 62-78. Meinig, D.W. "The Beholding Eye. Ten Versions of the Same Scene," in: The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. Geographical Essays, ed. D.W. Meinig. Oxford, 1979, 33-48. Meinig, Donald W. ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes, Oxford, 1979, interviews with J.B. Jackson and W.G. Hoskins, "Reading the Landscape. An Appreciation of W.G. Hoskins and J.B. Jackson," 195-244. Mitchell, W.J.T. ed. Landscape and Power, Chicago, 1994. See his "Introduction," 1-4, and Mitchell, "Imperial Landscape," 5-34. Olin, Laurie. "Form, Meaning and Expression in Landscape Design", Landscape Journal, 7:2 (Fall 1989), 149-168. Roskill, Mark. The Languages of Landscape (New Haven-London, 1997). Saunders, William S. ed. Nature, Landscape and Building for Sustainability [A Harvard Design Magazine Reader, 6] Schama, Simon. "Dutch Landscapes: Culture as Foreground," in: Peter C. Sutton, Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting. Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), 1987, 64-83. Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory (New York, 1995). Schenker, Heath Massey. "Feminist Interventions in the Histories of Landscape Architecture," Landscape Journal 13 (1994), 107-112. Spirn, Anne W. The Granite Garden SWA [Sasaki, Walker, and Associates]. Infrastructure Landscape. ter Braak, Lex, et al. Reading the American landscape: an index of books and images [with Frank van der Salm, Erik de Jong, Hanneke Schreiber] (Amsterdam: Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture; Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2009).

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Thompson, Ian H. Rethinking Landscape. A Critical Reader (London-New York: Routledge, 2010). [* covers a range, from Antiquity with Vitruvius to the 18th century Picturesque to Phenomenology today.] Tilley, Christopher. A phenomenology of landscape: place, paths and monuments (Oxford-London, 1997). Treib, Marc. "Must Landscapes Mean? Approaches to Significance in Recent Landscape Architecture," Architectural Association Quarterly 11:4 (1995), 28-39. Treib, Marc. "Nature Recalled," in: Corner, James. ed. Recovering Landscape. Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), 29-43. Treib, Marc. ed. Spatial Recall. Memory in Architecture and Landscape (London-New York: Routledge, 2009). [* divided into 3 Parts:: 1. Body, 2. Landscapes, 3. Buildings; essays by twelve designers and artists: Juhani Pallasmaa, Adriaan Geuze, Susan Schwartzenberg, Georges Descombes, Esther da Costa Meyer, etc.] Treib, Marc. ed. Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens (London-New York: Routledge, 2011). [includes four key essays from the 1980s to 2000s, with commentaries, on how meanings become embedded in designed landscapes: 1. Laurie Olin, "Form, Meaning, and Expression in Landscape Architecture"; 2. Marc Treib, "Must Landscapes Mean?"; 3. Jane Gillette, "Can Gardens Mean?"; 4. Susan Herrington, "Gardens Can Mean," "Meaning and Criticism."] Williamson, Tom. "Garden History and Systematic Survey," in: Garden History. Issues, Approaches, Methods, ed. John Dixon Hunt (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1992), 59-61 (introduction). Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim. ed. Places of Commemoration: Search for Identity and Landscape Design (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2001). Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim. "The Search for `Ecological Goodness' among Garden Historians," in Michel Conan, ed. Perspectives on Garden Histories (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1999), 161-80.

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