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 or even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041581412X
• ISBN13: 9780415814126
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"