Category: books
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Reading the Landscape: The Emergence of Landscape Urbanism
The next essay from the Landscape Urbanism Reader is by David Grahame Shane, entitled ‘The Emergence of Landscape Urbanism’. This essay builds on Waldheim’s essay and further elaborates on the origins of the theory – with a broad take on the historical foundations and precedents around landscape urbanism as mentioned in the introductory text: “Shane…
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Reading the Landscape: Landscape as Urbanism
The next essay in the Landscape Urbanism Reader, following ‘Terra Fluxus‘ and the initial ‘Reference Manifesto‘ is a longer essay by Waldheim exploring the idea that landscape is most suited to the modern metropolis, being “uniquely capable of responding to temporal change, transformation, adaptation, and succession… a medium uniquely suited to the open-endedness, indeterminacy, and…
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Reading the Landscape: Terra Fluxus
This essay, Terra Fluxus by James Corner, from the Landscape Urbanism Reader is considered one of the seminal texts in formulating landscape urbanism theory. Obviously it has had an impact on me personally, as I used it for the name of my firm, with a respectful tip of the hat to Mr. Corner. The concept…
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Reading the Landscape: LU Reader broken down
Our previous excursion into online readings was sort of disjointed, sparsely commented, and for the most part not terribly fruitful. There was some good discussion, but I think a combination of format, content, and time constraints added to the difficulty in exploring the Landscape Urbanism Reader to the degree I would have liked to…
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Reading List: Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA
‘Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA‘ published in 2011, is edited by the Infrastructure Research Initiative of SWA including Los Angeles office principals Gerdo Aquino and Ying-Yu Hung. This is supplemented with contributions from Charles Waldheim, Julie Czerniak, Adriaan Geuze, Matthew Skjonsberg and Alexander Robinson. While ostensibly about landscape infrastructure, this type of book is…
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Source: Axioms for Reading the Landscape – Lewis
Doing some readings of seminal texts for an upcoming essay/book chapter on landscape urbanism, and want to capture some of the content, at least in fragments. ‘Source’ will be the code for snapshot of a particular essay – not a thorough review but an abstract and some specific reflections. In this case the instructive ‘Axioms…
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RBC: Notes on the Third Ecology | Kwinter
Notes on the Third Ecology | Sanford Kwinter Kwinter used the dichotomy of city/nature, rooting in our historic perceptions that evolved in the Industrial era. As mentioned, this concept is characterized by a time “…when immense upheavals in social, economic, and political life transformed the very landscape around us and our relationship to it irreversibly…
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RBC: Urban Earth: Mumbai
Urban Earth: Mumbai | Raven-Elison & Askins Urban Earth, with studies in Mumbai, Mexico City, and London: Their approach: “walking across some of Earth’s biggest urban areas, to explore their spatial realities for the people who live there and challenge dominant media discourses regarding the places in which most of us now live. The idea…
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RBC: Mumbai on My Mind | Bhabha
Mumbai on My Mind: Some Thoughts on Sustainability | Homi Bhabha :: Mumbai Slum – image via Lost & Found “It is always too early, or too late, to talk of the ‘cities of the future.’ (78) Bhabha uses this essay to frame the idea of sustainability and innovation, mentioning that “Any claim to newness,…
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RBC: Zeekracht (OMA)
Zeekracht | OMA A related follow-up to the essay by Koolhaas, this short essay explores Zeekracht, a master plan for the North Sea, driven by it’s “high wind and consistent wind speeds and shallow waters…” making it “…arguably the world’s most suitable area for large-scale wind farming.” The project master plan (below) outlines the strategy. …