Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities: In Search of a Position - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3037783044 ISBN 13: 9783037783047

Publisher: LARS MULLER, 2015

Synopsis

Picking up on architecture’s tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Günther Vogt,

and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession.

With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city, about his teaching at the ETH Zürich, and about the work of Vogt Landscape Architects; he describes his perception of the lanscape as a cabinet of curiostities, tells how he collects various phenomena and individual elements, relates them to each other and rearranges them. And in the reader’s mind’s eye unfolds a cosmos, in which the lack of wholeness of "the landscape" seems to be a gain rather than a loss.

About this title

About the Author:

GUNTHER VOGT is a landscape architect and owner of Vogt Landscape Architects Zurich, with branch offices in Munich, Berlin, and London. Since 2005, he is a professor for landscape architecture at ETH Zurich. Current work includes public realm and streetscape designs for the athletes' village for the Olympic Games in London 2012, now known as East Village.

About this edition

• Publisher: LARS MULLER
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3037783044
• ISBN 13: 9783037783047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Bornhauser Rebecca