Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 1864702516
Published on: 2006-01
Paperback
The Art of Survival：Recovering Landscape Architecture is a unique contribution of theory and practice. It is both encyclopedic in its coverage of the antecedents of the ideal paradise or Shangri-La, so beautifully expressed in Chinese mythology as the land of peach blossoms, and focused on the origins of landscape architecture in China, establishing bridges between the art of survival and land stewardship, along with the Challenges and Opportunities for Landscape Architecture for the new era.
This book makes it possible to follow unequivocally Professor Yu's statement that the challenge for landscape architecture is to recover its role as an art of survival. The leading task is to re-create a new type of Land that sustains humanity, returns people's identity, and makes them happy.
This book will be an invaluable tool in translating theory into action, assisting in the global sharing of knowledge and raising the quality of the professional debate when policies are considered.
1.Positioning Landscape Architecture in the New Era
1.1 The Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape Architecture(KongjianYu)
1.2 Seeking the Deity of the Land (Kongjian Yu)
1.3 Vernacular Cities and Vernacular Landscapes(Kongjian Yu And Birgit Linder)
1.4 A Force of Nature (Susan Jakes)
1.5 Questions and Answers About Landscape Architecture ( Kongjian Yu)
1.6 Urben Frenzy(Gareth George)
1.7 Internationality and Cultural Identity(Antje Stockman)
2. The Negative Approach: Landscape Leading the Way
2.1 The Growth Pattern of Taizhou City Based On Ecological Infrastructuret (Kongjian Yu And Dihua Li)
2.2 Rescuing a Village: The Magang Project (Kongjian Yu, Dihua Li And Xili Han)
3. The Art of Survival: Landscape Architecture Recovered
3.1 The Rice Campus: Shenyang Architectural University (Kongjian Yu)
3.2 The Floating Gardens: The Yongning River Park (Kongjian Yu)
4. The Poetics of Vernacular
4.1 Zhongshan Shipyard Park (Kongjian Yu and Wei Pang)
4.1a The Industrial Strength: Zhongshan Shipyard Park (Mary Padua)
4.2 The People's Place: Dujiangyan Square(Kongjian Yu)
4.2a Dujiangyan Square-Articulating a Narrative Public Open Space (Mary Padua)
