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Meyer‐Lee, Robert J.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511483356.001

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“…As Elizabeth Meyer said, the "abstraction, objecthood, uniqueness and universality that characterized modern art and design" marginalized landscape architecture's focus on matters of site. 21 While it is true that abstraction of modernism was challenged by site concerns, as Meyer suggested, some manifestations of modernism www.theplanjournal.com did engage with the conceptual space of the regional landscape, as a reaction to that same abstraction, and as a form of criticism in architecture. This development paralleled what Elizabeth Meyer described happening in landscape theory: the reaction to the transposition of idealized types and the formulation of concepts tied to place.…”

Section: Architecture As Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The "disciplinary contamination" Elizabeth Meyer has described as "the intermingling of aesthetic discourses and conventions" with knowledge from other disciplines, such as geology and ecology, enriched the vocabulary of landscape architecture. 26 Similarly, the disciplinary contamination from landscape and ecology is proving enriching to architecture. A critical contemporary practice understands the performance of architectural form as an experiential and environmental device integral to landscape ecologies.…”

Section: Architecture Of Ecological Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prospect Park is a cultural product of a unique moment in nineteenth and early twentieth century when Olmstead adapted theories of idealized pastoral landscape for the American city, to create more than purely visual compositions that were informed by the reading of the geological qualities of the glacial landscape of Brooklyn. 29 Reinterpreted as an ecological space, this landscape has provided important open space for the urban population, a rich and diverse flora and fauna, and assumed an important role in the microclimate, air and water systems. Its historical and cultural significance, apart from being one of the oldest and most important urban landscape spaces in American urbanism, is that it is designed by one of the founding figures of the landscape architecture discipline.…”

Section: New Critical Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Landscape as a Conceptual Space for Architecture: Shifting Theories and Critical Practices

Laboy¹

2016

TPJ

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Architecture constantly negotiates the ideal and the real. These two conditions, being a reflection of cultural values and practices, change over time. I suggest that what remains constant to architecture are the lasting spatial and formal qualities that engage in constructing the physical and cultural landscape: how it channels natural light and air, how its permanent structures organize space, frame and supports life, shelter, protect and comfort. There are the qualities that make architecture endure and adapt to a changing cultural and natural environment. The placement of architecture in the real world often seems contaminated by a multiplicity of socioeconomic structures and processes, but its situation in the world is also what provides an opportunity to engage in the making of a landscape where over time architecture finds a critical autonomy and relevance. The role of architecture in making or responding to the landscape is one of the critical questions in current debates about autonomy and contingency. In this paper, I expand on the work I presented at the ACSA conference at Syracuse University in the Fall of 2015, where I explored how the discipline of architecture has absorbed the landscape as a conceptual space, to "theorize critical means of engagement with the formal, spatial and performance qualities of its territory, to define critical contingencies that are meaningful through space and time, and to refuse those that can keep it tied to the trivialities of a temporary situation." More specifically, my work examines how the notion of the ecological permeates the architecture discipline from the field of landscape, providing a framework for architectural discourse to theorize the relationship of the idealized and the real, to create new singular form within a situation of multiplicity.

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Section: Architecture As Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Architecture Of Ecological Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: New Critical Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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