James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.
Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb
This volume brings together a wide range of critical commentary on one of American’s most productive & talented landscape architect’s- Dan Kiley. Through out his career Kiley collaborated with some of the most distinguished architects: Louis Kahn, Eero Saarinen, and I.M. Pei to create award winning spaces. This publication features the long out-of-print proceedings of a 1982 symposium at the University of Virginia. The transcript illuminates Kiley’s approach to design and will provide inspiration to the next generation of landscape architects, architects and planners.
Lighting design, long regarded as a pragmatic and purely technical aspect of construction planning, has increasingly developed into a discipline of its own over the past years. This publication recognises recent developments by combining the technical sphere with an artistic perspective, centred on the question of the role of natural and artificial light in the perception of a variety of (urban) landscapes. The first section of the book describes techniques for creating nocturnal landscapes, analysing these according to typology (coastal, riverside, lakeside, mountain, forest, marsh, or quarry and industrial sceneries) and concept of illumination. We embark on a process of learning to read (illuminated) landscapes. The second section presents detailed documentation of 21 international case-studies arranged according to type and drawn, for example, from Great Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan and Singapore.
