Abstract :
As the world teeters on the verge of environmental collapse, landscape architecture has taken on a new significance offering a longed-for sanctuary for our increasingly urbanised lives. Here, in his introduction to the issue, guest-editor Michael Spens explains how by taking its impetus from land art, landscape architecture, as an expanded field, transcends the conventional confines of site. This renders it possible to read architecture as landscape, or as non-landscape, as building becomes non-site and the site indeed materialises as the work per se. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords :
Hans Hollein , Spain , Le Corbusier , Alles ist architektur , Robert Morris , Peter Cook , Ego , Guggenheim Museum in Salzburg , Site-specifics , Grahame Shane , Juhani Pallasmaa , Aleksanterinkatu , Spiral Jetty , Lorens Holm and Paul Guzzardo , John Dixon Hunt , Austria , Robert Smithson , Patrick Geddes , New Orleans , Dixon and Jones , Great Salt Lake , Cahokin , post-Katrina , Londonיs Exhibition Road , Utah , laser\net digital future landscape terrain , Gustafson and Porterיs urban redefinition of Singapore , Peter Eisenman Architects , Bernard Lassus , Museum of Vulcanology , City of Culture , Michel Conan , 2006 International Architectural Biennale in Venice , vehicle-free urban perspective , 1970 , Felipe Correa , Et in Arcadia , Germany , Notes on Sculpture II , Florian Beigel and Philip Christou in Leipzig and Korea , Ricky Burdett , Whiteinch Cross , University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts , The Big Easy , Dieter Kienast , Museum Abteilberg in M?nchengladbach , minimalist sculpture , Kathryn Gustafson and Neil Porter in Beirut , Hiroki Hasegawaיs Yokohama Portside Park in Japan (1999) , Gross.Max , James Corner , Clermont-Ferrand , Santiago de Compostela , Mies van der Rohe , Bogot? , Glasgow Green (1999) , Ian McHarg , Jayne Merkel and Lucy Bullivant
