Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture

by John Dixon Hunt

Book Overview

Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism's neglect of history, these essays by John Dixon Hunt explore how, in fact, designers do attach importance to how a location manifests its past.

The process involves, on the one hand, registering how geography, topography and climate determine design and, on the other, how history discovered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415814138
• ISBN13: 9780415814133
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"