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Setting and Stray Paths: Writings on Landscape and Gardens
Contributor(s): Treib, Marc (Author)

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 ISBN: 0415700477     ISBN-13: 9780415700474
Publisher: Routledge
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Published: July 2005
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Annotation: Studies of the landscape have ranged from discussions of cultural geography at one end and botany at the other, with quite a mix in between. In this book Marc Treib focuses on the subject of the designed landscape, which he takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas, as well as a number of other landscape forms. His writings begin with an investigation of order and its perception: How have humans organized landscapes so that the experience of them could be directed, or even "read," decoded, and understood? His writings include analyses of both historical and contemporary works, with a geographic distribution that treats Asia as well as Europe and North America. Certain essays address the question of content in landscape design, others its meaning; others examine the lives and contributions of major figures in the field, for example, cultural landscape historian John Brinckerhoff Jackson and landscape architect Garrett Eckbo; subjects such as influence also receive the author's attention.
As a whole, theessays cover a remarkable range, examining issues that few other writers have attempted to explain in detail. Treib brings a designer's eye to his work, paring observation and formal analysis with a more theorical formulation of the ideas from which or by which landscape architecture is produced.
Photographs by the author complement his writings, adding a visual dimension to the provocative ideas outlined in the essays.
While all of these essays have appeared in print over a period of some twenty-five years, many have been published in specialist journals or in a foreign language. Settings and Stray paths assembles a vital collection of Marc Treib's writings on landscapearchitecture, for the first time in a single source book.
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Landscape
- Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning
Dewey: 712
LCCN: 2004021564
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.33" W x 9.13" L (1.16 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces. Asking essential questions about the nature of order and its perception, this book includes in its impressive scope analyses of both historic and modern works with a geographical distribution that extends across Europe, Asia and North America. With unique depth in many areas of study, Treib brings his expertise to bear on a range of inter-related and mutually influential issues within the subject, taking in an assessment of the lives and contributions of a number of leading figures in the field, the contents of a landscape and the meanings ascribed to it, and a theoretical formulation of the ideas from which or by which landscape architecture is produced.
 
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