These captivating landscapes by the Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin provide a visual document of Europe in the midst of a growing environmental crisis. Technically flawless, cool, detached, yet highly analytical, Franklin’s photos reveal the irrefutable proof of humans effect on Europe and the vulnerability we face as a result, from the Arctic Circle to the Peloponnese. Footprint brings together a singular photographic perspective with a powerful environmental message to present an engaging picture of the vulnerability of Europe’s landscape and population in the wake of ominous change.
Revitalization of landscape design at O? S?owackiego: Preservaion of Landscape Architecture at Oscar Hansen’s project O? S?owackiego, Lublin, Poland
In the first part of this book there is a thorough introduction of how Oscar Hansen, one of the recent prominent architect, whose composition towards free form is in continuation with that of Le Corbusier, ?Towards the new architecture’. He answers beautifully the growing needs of 21st century world inhabitants. Now for Oscar Hansen the global world is one and to come up for an answer to this he traveled far and wide like how Le Corbusier did almost a century ago. His multidimensional approach towards architecture makes him universal; he opens all the physical and psychological boundaries and its barriers; and in a linear fashion takes all the architects and other professionals together towards the focused march of global accomplishment. The second part of this book focuses on towards the revitalization of the project at the S?owacki estate, Juliusz S?owacki housing estate and Lublin Housing Cooperative, 1961. Here, the students are supposed to come up with the solution to revitalise the beautiful open form building housing complex.
Wild & Scenic Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has, acre for acre, the most varied scenery of all the states in the Union. Even though it accounts for scarcely one percent of the total area of the lower forty-eight states, the Keystone State includes within its borders portions almost a third of all the landform provinces in the nation. Anybody who doubts the significance of this measure of the abundance and diversity of Pennsylvania’s natural features has only to leaf through this portfolio of two hundred full-color photographs by master landscape photographer Steve Mulligan to be convinced of the open hand with which nature has endowed this state.
Mulligan spent four years seeking out just the right places and subjects to portray natural Pennsylvania in all its diversity. Like a Mason or Dixon freed from the compulsion of the straight line, Mulligan has tirelessly trekked uphill and down dale, feeling with his feet and probing with his eye the rock-ribbed, forest-clad lineaments of “Penn’s Woods”. Seeking out the most subtle and most spectacular photographic subjects in each of Pennsylvania’s varied landscapes, Mulligan has assembled for Wild & Scenic Pennsylvania images from every section of every physical province in the state.
Steve Mulligan’s photographs are systematically grouped into the twenty-three sections of Pennsylvania’s seven landscape provinces, whose picturesque charms are explained by reference to their violent origins in a lively and informative text by naturalist Robert Hutchinson. In the photographer’s introduction, Mulligan touches on the artistic and emotional springs that have sustained him on his long and revelatory trip through WILD & SCENIC PENNSYLVANIA.
