Un état des lieux de l’architecture paysagère en Europe à travers 39 projets accompagnés d’une analyse.
European
landscape architecture builds on a common horizon of understanding and yet produces
quality works of very different expression and style. In Touch explores
outstanding projects created within the European mindset, diving below the
surface in an attempt to uncover the common values that bind European design
work. The book presents 11 in-depth project ‘features’, which include thematically
related essays, and 28 concise project ‘icons’. The features focus both on big and
small scale urban and rural situations. On the one hand, the newly installed and
subtly designed railway line of the Glattalbahn in the Zurich metropolitan region,
on the other the small scale urban spaces the privately developed and publicly used
City Dune exterior spaces of the SEB Bank in Copenhagen. On the one hand French
Sermange’s redesigned heart of the village, focusing on a meadow, on the other
hand the far reaching site installations referring to local legends in Norway’s
Lake Seljord region.The essays include
debates about landscape policies as well as about how to design with history,
about the role of art and nature as well as about pioneer landscape architects
across the European countries. In Touch is the third volume in the triennial Landscape
Architecture Europe series, following On Site (2009) and Fieldwork (2006). Produced
for the Landscape Architecture Europe Foundation (LAE), situated in the Netherlands,
it aims to set standards, in design and design critique, by presenting an overview
of carefully selected and edited projects and topics of contemporary European landscape
architecture.
The series
is endorsed by the European Federation for Landscape Architecture (EFLA) within
the International Federation for Landscape Architecture (IFLA). It is produced
under the auspices of Meto Vroom (chairman), Fritz Auweck, Maria Goula,
Alastair McCapra and Kathryn Moore, members of the board of the Landscape
Architecture Europe Foundation (LAE). The jury of In Touch has been composed by
Michael van Gessel (chairman), Antonio Angelillo, Lilli Licˇka, Tone Lindheim, João
Ferreira Nunes. The book has been edited by Lisa Diedrich (editor-in-chief),
Mark Hendriks, Thierry Kandjee, Claudia Moll, and produced by Harry Harsema.
Anglais.
