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The Shape of the Land

Topography & Landscape Architecture

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The first book to address the role and aesthetic potential of shaping the land as the basic act of making landscape architecture and gardens.

Size: 10” x 10” Square
Pages: 288pp
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Date: Spring 2023
ISBN: 978-1-957183-24-4
Price: $50.00
World Rights: Available
 
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“Presents the contributions of thirteen well-known practitioners and academics who discuss the forms and ramifications of reconfiguring terrain”

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Weight 3 lbs
Dimensions 11 × 11 × 1 in
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The Shape of the Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture—the first book to center on this subject—presents the contributions of thirteen well-known practitioners and academics who discuss the forms and ramifications of reconfiguring terrain. The essays range in content from pre-industrial precedents in the work of Humphry Repton to new digital topographic modeling systems without the use of contour lines, the treatment of waste products to the land art of the American Southwest. Practicing landscape architects focusing on the modeling of topography in the works considering both utility and aesthetics. In all, the book reviews the history, reasons, and results of at least three centuries of topographic interventions, while suggesting pathways into the future — as new technology and new necessities increase the functional demands placed upon landscape architects, while at the same time potentially offering new forms of artistic expression.

Authors

Marc Treib Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a historian and critic of landscape and architecture who has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. Books published by ORO Editions include Landscapes of Modern Architecture; Austere Gardens; The Landscapes of Georges Descombes: Doing Almost Nothing; and Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East, and more recently The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design and Serious Fun: The Landscapes of Claude Cormier.

Other Contributors

Stephen Daniels
Georges Descombes
Adriaan Geuze
Jennifer Guthrie
Kathleen John-Alder
Ana Kučan
Karl Kullmann
José Miguel Lameiras
David Meyer
Elissa Rosenberg
Bas Smets
Laura Solano

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Size: 10” x 10” Square
Pages: 288pp
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Date: Spring 2023
ISBN: 978-1-957183-24-4
Price: $50.00
World Rights: Available

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The Shape of the Land

“Presents the contributions of thirteen well-known practitioners and academics who discuss the forms and ramifications of reconfiguring terrain”

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