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Nature and Ideology
The essays in this volume explore the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. They also investigate garden designers' use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the rich model that nature offers.
Architecture and the Nazi Cultural Landscape
This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural landscape. For the Nazi regime, cultural landscape was indeed a heritage resource, but it was much more than that: cultural landscape was the nation. The project of Nazi racial purification and cultural renewal demanded the physical reshaping and reconceptualization of the existing environment to create the so-called "new Nazi cultural landscape." One of the most important components of this was a set of monumental sites thought to embody blood and soil beliefs through the harmonious synthesis of...
Places of Commemoration
"Everyone is occupied, consciously or unconsciously, with identity--one's origin and the question of one's place in humankind and society of the past, present, and future. Identity and memory are not stable and objective things, but representations or constructions of reality related to a particular interest, such as class, gender, of power relations. Identity is problematic without history and without the commemoration of history, and of course such remembrance may distort historical events and facts. When dealing with gardens, a substantial part of our physical environment, there are always unspoken questions of identity." Places of Commemoration examines commemorative sites of different character, including gardens, landscapes, memorials, cemeteries, and sites of former Nazi concentration camps, detailing the ideas behind the creation of memorials and monuments and the struggles over the narratives they present.
In a Dark Wood
In a Dark Wood presents a history of debates among ecologists over what constitutes good forestry, and a critique of the ecological reasoning behind contemporary strategies of preservation, including the Endangered Species Act. Chase argues that these strategies, in many instances adopted for political, rather than scientific reasons, fail to promote biological diversity and may actually harm more creatures than they help. At the same time, Chase offers examples of conservation strategies that work, but which are deemed politically incorrect and ignored. In a Dark Wood provides the most thoughtful and complete account yet written of radical environmentalism. And it challenges the fundamental...
Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period
This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly “scientific” approach that was being adopted in and applied to garden art and garden culture in the early modern period. This development was deeply embedded in the philosophical, religious, political, cultural and social contexts, running parallel to the beginning of processes of scientization so characteristic for modern European history. This volume strikingly shows how these various developments are intertwined in gardens for various purposes.
On Landscapes
There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music – but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies that produce them. Drawing on examples from a wide range of landscapes from around the world and throughout history, Susan Herrington considers the ways landscapes can affect our emotions, our imaginations, and our understanding of the passage of time. On Landscapes reveals the design work involved in even the most naturalistic of landscapes, and the ways in which contemporary landscapes are turning the challenges of the industrial past into opportunities for the future. Inviting us to thoughtfully see and experience the landscapes that we encounter in our daily lives, On Landscapes demonstrates that art is all around us.
Gartendenkmalpflege in der DDR
Der Muskauer und der Branitzer Park, die Schlossgärten von Rheinsberg, Güstrow, Großsedlitz oder Pillnitz, die Parks des klassischen Weimar und des aufklärerischen Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreichs, Sanssouci natürlich und der Babelsberger Park - die Reihe ließe sich beliebig fortsetzen. Herausragende Gartenkunstwerke gehören ebenso dazu wie die große Masse der Gärten, Parks und des Stadtgrüns von regionaler Bedeutung, die für das Gesamtbild unseres Gartenerbes so unerlässlich sind. Dass es sie als vergängliche, der kontinuierlichen Pflege und Wiederherstellung bedürftige Kunstwerke auf dem früheren Gebiet des ostdeutschen Staates bis heute zu bestaunen gibt, verdanken sie in nic...
Plätze in einem geteilten Land
Plätze in einem geteilten Land erforscht die Entwicklungsgeschichte von Stadtplätzen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik von 1945 bis 1990. Bei ihrer Gestaltung trafen Politik und gesellschaftliche Hintergründe, Städtebau, Architektur und Landschaftsarchitektur aufeinander. Die Auswirkungen der unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen in Ost und West auf die Entwicklung verschiedener Platztypen, die Funktion und Nutzung der Plätze, ihre Ausstattung sowie die Formensprache der Platzgestaltungen werden dargestellt und damalige Planer- und Nutzerwünsche untersucht. Ein Vergleich der Platzgestaltungen in der DDR und der BRD zeigt, wo und aus welchen Gründen Parallelen und Unterschiede auftraten.
