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Catherine Dee To Design Landscape Art, Nature & Utility To Design Landscape To Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in an accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Catherine Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using the concept of ‘aesthetics of thrift’. Employing numerous case studies as diverse as Hellerup Rose Garden in Denmark; Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, USA; Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire, UK; and Tofuku-ji, Kyoto, Japan to illustrate her ideas, the book is a beautiful portfolio of Dee’s drawings, which are both evocative and to the point. The book begins with a Foundations section, which sets out the basis of the approach. The Principleschapters then elaborate eleven significant considerationsapplicable to any design project, regardless of context and scale. Following on, the Strategies chapters reinforce the principles, and suggest further ways to design, which are adaptable to different conditions. The book ends with a focus on Elements: case studies and verb lists provide sources for the designer to consider how the components – vegetation, water, terrain, structures, soils, weather and sky – might be engaged, mediated and joined. Dee’s book is for all those who craft landscape, from the gardener, to the professional landscape architect, to the student of design. Catherine Dee trained in fine art before studying landscape architecture, and today practises both. She is author of Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: A Visual Introduction (Routledge 2001) and several articles on the relationship between design, drawing and art. She is a founding editor of the European Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA) (2006) and creator of its peer-reviewed visual essay section ‘Thinking Eye’. A highly regarded design teacher, she holds an academic post in the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield, UK. Catherine Dee To Design Landscape Art, Nature & Utility First published 2012 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2012 Catherine Dee The right of Catherine Dee to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, me- chanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Dee, Catherine, 1958- To design landscape : art, nature and utility / Catherine Dee. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Landscape design. 2. Landscape design--Philosophy. I. Title. SB472.45.D44 2011 712.01--dc22 2011005712 ISBN13: 978-0-415-58504-0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-58505-7 (pbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-80620-3 (ebk) Typeset in Egyptienne, Trade Gothic and Bell Gothic Cover and graphic design: Oliver Kleinschmidt, Berlin To my mother and father Acknowledgements Thank you Marc Treib. Your encyclopaedic knowledge of landscape architecture and contemporary art was freely and most generously shared. Your support, acute critical suggestions and editorial advice played the most significant role in the book’s development. Thank you to my friends; co-editors of the European Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA), from whom I have greatly enjoyed learning during the many long meetings as we worked to found the journal: Bernadette Blanchon, Malene Hauxner, Karsten Jorgensen and Martin Prominski. Thank you to Anne Spirn, friend and kindred spirit. Your work has inspired me since I first encountered landscape architecture. Thank you to all the students I have had the pleasure to teach and to learn from. Thank you to John and Will for bearing with me: I hope family life did not suffer too much. Thank you to Alex Hollingsworth and Louise Fox at Routledge, for your support and patience. Oliver Kleinschmidt, thank you: I could not have wished for a better graphic designer. The book is as much yours as mine, and how wonderful it has been to work with someone who knows his craft, and practises aesthetics meticulously. Contents Foundations Principles 1 | To design landscape 3 5 | Sculpting time 14 2 | Craft 6 6 | All possible forms 24 3 | Form 8 7 | Nature, culture, both 36 4 | The aesthetics of thrift: 10 8 | Soft, rock-hard art, nature and utility and evergreen time 48 9 | Elemental register 56 10 | Hand and machine 68 11 | Modesty and ingenuity in art 80 12 | Economy of means 90 13 | Utilitarian form 98 14 | Context is everything 110 15 | Raking 118 Strategies Elements 16 | Abstraction 128 23 | Green 196 17 | Hardly 140 24 | Terrain 208 18 | Intervention 148 25 | Wet 220 19 | Keep 156 26 | Furnish 232 20 | Absence 168 27 | Dirty, rotten 240 21 | Lucky 178 28 | Wind 248 22 | Interplay 188 29 | Sky 254 Bibliography 262 Case studies listed by designer 266 Case studies listed by site 267 Index 268 ix
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