The Planetary Garden And Other Writings
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Author |
: Gilles Clément |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2015-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812291384 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812291387 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis "The Planetary Garden" and Other Writings by : Gilles Clément
Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the Musée du Quai Branly, but he describes himself as a gardener. To care for and cultivate a plot of land, a capable gardener must observe in order to act and work with, rather than against, the natural ecosystem of the garden. In this sense, he suggests, we should think of the entire planet as a garden, and ourselves as its keepers, responsible for the care of its complexity and diversity of life. "The Planetary Garden" is an environmental manifesto that outlines Clément's interpretation of the laws that govern the natural world and the principles that should guide our stewardship of the global garden of Earth. These are among the tenets of a humanist ecology, which posits that the natural world and humankind cannot be understood as separate from one another. This philosophy forms a thread that is woven through the accompanying essays of this volume: "Life, Constantly Inventive: Reflections of a Humanist Ecologist" and "The Wisdom of the Gardener." Brought together and translated into English for the first time, these three texts make a powerful statement about the nature of the world and humanity's place within it.
Author |
: Alessandro Rocca |
Publisher |
: Birkhaüser |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106019989976 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Planetary Gardens by : Alessandro Rocca
This book includes Gilles Clement's guidelines for planetary gardens and includes nine examples of his gardens in France.
Author |
: Ana Kučan |
Publisher |
: Birkhäuser |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2023-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783035626568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3035626561 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Garden and Metaphor by : Ana Kučan
Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency. In this book, landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, philosophers and historians illuminate different aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene in six chapters: the garden as a place of community, garden as art, garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up questions of what garden as a model could stand for.
Author |
: Virginia Burrus |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2023-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226824550 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226824551 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Earthquakes and Gardens by : Virginia Burrus
Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography. In Jerome’s Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an earthquake-toppled city and a haunted garden in Cyprus. From these two fragmentary passages, Virginia Burrus delivers a series of sweeping meditations on our experience of place and the more-than-human worlds—the earth and its gods—that surround us. Moving between the personal and geological, Earthquakes and Gardens ruminates on destruction and resilience, ruination and resurgence, grief and consolation in times of disaster and loss. Ultimately, Burrus’s close readings reimagine religion as a practice that unsettles certainty and develops mutual flourishing.
Author |
: Vergil |
Publisher |
: University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2022-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299337407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299337405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eclogues and Georgics by : Vergil
James Bradley Wells shares his poet’s soul and scholar’s eye in this thought-provoking new translation of two of Vergil’s early works, the Eclogues and Georgics. With its emphasis on a natural rather than stylized rhythm, Eclogues and Georgics honors the original spirit of ancient Roman poetry as both a written and performance-based art form. The accompanying introductory essays situate both sets of poems in a rich literary tradition. Wells provides historical context and literary analysis of these two works, eschewing facile interpretations of these oft examined texts and ensconcing them in the society and culture from which they originated. The translations in Eclogues and Georgics are augmented with annotated essays, a pronunciation guide, and a glossary. These supplementary materials, alongside Wells’s bold vision for what translation choices can reveal, promote radically democratizing access for readers with an interest in classics or poetry.
Author |
: Maria Paula Diogo |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2019-04-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351170239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351170236 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene by : Maria Paula Diogo
This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse fields of research, including History of Science and Technology, Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture, and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and landscape history, the history of science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental humanities.
Author |
: David Schildberger |
Publisher |
: Birkhäuser |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2023-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783035625943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3035625948 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Food by : David Schildberger
Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and cultural artifacts, full of human intellect and powerful technologies. Our thinking, however, is dominated by the opposite, the notion of scarcity. The limits of nature act as an inevitable necessity. In his book, David Schildberger adopts a novel approach to the subject of resources, with the help of intelligent instruments that introduce new foods, such as chocolate made from cocoa cell cultures, and even a fruit-bearing vine raised far from a vineyard. With his imagined scenarios, the author invites the reader to dare stretch their intellectual imaginations and ultimately presents nature as a contingent. Conceptual models on the subject of nature and alternative ways of producing food Recommended reading for architectural IT specialists New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series
Author |
: Arne A. Wyller |
Publisher |
: MacAdam/Cage Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1878448641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781878448644 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Planetary Mind by : Arne A. Wyller
Author |
: Andreas Rumpfhuber |
Publisher |
: dpr-barcelona |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2017-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788494752315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 8494752316 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Into the Great Wide Open by : Andreas Rumpfhuber
Into the Great Wide Open is a book about a search for a form of practice in architecture. Practice here is understood both as a critical reflection of a status quo and its history, as well as forms of (active) intervention through designing and planning. The book is a fragmentary snapshot of an on going, constantly developing and altering process to find a place in the production and reflection of our built environment, and implicitly disputes the question: “What is to be done?”
Author |
: Kelly D. Norris |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2024-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780760388228 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0760388229 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Your Natural Garden by : Kelly D. Norris
"Your Natural Garden is an authoritative, practical, and beautiful guide to tending a naturalistic garden"--