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Beauty redeemed : recycling post-industrial landscapes
- Title
- Beauty redeemed : recycling post-industrial landscapes / Ellen Braae.
- Author
- Braae, Ellen
- Publication
- Risskov : IKAROS Press ; Basel : Birkhäuser, [2015]
- ©2015
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- Description
- 335 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
- Summary
- Coping with post-industrial sites is a pressing issue throughout Europe and North America. One point of departure for their general rediscovery was the revitalisation by Latz + Partner in the early 1990s of an abandoned steelworks as Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord; industrial relics were not demolished but seen as integral parts of the overall concept and imbued with new meanings and uses. Many more projects with a similar approach have since been executed and this book presents a selection of the most seminal, such as Chemetoff's Île de Nantes, Parc del Clot in Barcelona, Hargreaves/PROAP's Parque do Tejo e Tranca̋o in Lisbon and Michel Desvigne's Parc aux Angéliques in Bordeaux. Beauty Redeemed offers a systematic framework for the consideration and use of post-industrial sites. The author, Professor of Landscape Design at Copenhagen University, places these 'leftovers' in their broad historical and aesthetic context, proceeding from the 19th-century Romantic fascination with ruins through present-day industrial decline as exemplified by Detroit to a renaissance of the transformed landscape. Transformation, understood as designing with the 'as found', forms the basis of this design theory; it explores design work informed by a sensibility for redeemed beauty and various concepts of relating past, present and future.--Back cover.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-332).
- Language (note)
- 31 German, 9 English, 1 French and 1 Spanish contribution.
- ISBN
- 9783035603460
- 3035603464
- 9788792614100
- 8792614108
- 9783706908146
- 370690814X
- LCCN
- 2015429106
- 9783706908146
- OCLC
- 911494632
- SCSB-5861836
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries