Technology and the Garden

Lee, Michael G. (Editor)/ Helphand, Kenneth I. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0884023966 / ISBN 13: 9780884023968

Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, 2014

294 pages. 10.25x8.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __0884023966

Inhaltsangabe:

Technology is the practice and activity of making, as well as the tools that enable that making. It is also the realm of ideas behind those endeavors, the expanse of technical knowledge and expertise. At once material, intellectual, active, and social, technology is the purposeful organization of human effort to alter and shape the environment. Gardens, like other designed landscapes, are products of a range of technologies; their layout, construction, and maintenance would be unthinkable without technology. What are the technologies of garden making, what are the concepts and ideas behind garden technologies, and what is the meaning and experience of those endeavors?Technology and the Garden examines the shaping and visualization of the landscape; the development of horticultural technologies; the construction of landscape through hydraulics, labor, and infrastructure; and the effect of emerging technologies on the experience of landscape. These essays demonstrate how the technics of the garden can be hidden or revealed, disguised beneath the earth or celebrated on the surface. How designers have approached technology, in all historical periods and in a diversity of places and cultures, is a central question in landscape studies.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Michael G. Lee is the Reuben M. Rainey Chair in the History of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia.

Kenneth I. Helphand is Knight Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Technology and the Garden
Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New