Landscape design and the experience of motion

Conan, M., 2004, Landscape design and the experience of motion, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington

  • Author : Conan, M.
  • Year : 2004
  • Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
  • Publisher's Location : Washington
  • ISBN : 088402293
  • Pages : 328
  • Abstract : This book covers on an important but largely unexplored topic in scholarly texts in the field of Landscape Studies: the experience of motion through a garden or designed landscape. As Conan suggests in his introduction, human movement--circulation--takes place partly in response to or in accordance with the designer’s intentions. The essays span Europe, the Far East, the Americas, the modern era as well as the ancient world. Its contributors likewise have diverse backgrounds and fields of specialization ranging from anthropology to art history, thereby imparting a diversity of viewpoints so as to engender different perspectives and new ways of thinking about the experience of motion in a designed landscape
  • Comments : KEYWORDS: landscape architecture, history, philosophy.