Neue Landschaftsarchitektur New landscape architecture
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Neue Landschaftsarchitektur = New landscape architecture
Ernst & Sohn, c1994
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English and German
Bibliography: p. [378]
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Nature is at once visible and invisible. The visible outer layer of nature appeals to the eyes, but the forces of nature act on a primarily unseen plane. Life and death take place in processes of silent detachment. Hearts beat, lungs breathe, thoughts come and go, the blood circulates, and the digestion operates - all subject to the realm of nature. A split, however, passes through the centre of the innermost self: it divides the inside from the outside, the subject from the object, the self from nature, consciousness from the world. The landscape architecture of Hans-Dieter Schaal demonstrates this split. All the structures and compositions we know which consist of meadows, mountains, hills, grottoes, foliage, groves, buildings and staged situations are links in empty space between objects and subjects, between nature and consciousness, between exterior and interior. Proceesses are initiated here as they entail confrontation, entanglement, superposition, compression and encirclement. Windows and doors are endowed with the functions of transitways, and paths and squares become sites of meeting - places of approach between humans and nature.
This book presents no new theories of landscape architecture. Rather it describes the phenomena of the Earth's surface which we include under the concept of landscape, and it attempts a new definition of the relationship between humans and landscape.
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