The Penn Landscape Architecture Reader 2020
So admist all the Covd-19 chaos there is still a little hope of learning. The Landscape Architecture department put together a light list of readings for quarantine. This was originally released during the extended spring break. I have posted it now as it is a relatively long list and perfect for summer!
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens – Wallace Stevens, Alfred A Knof, 1990
- “Frederick Law Olmstead and the Dialectic Landscape” excerpted from The Writing of Robert Smithson, 1979
- “Farmland Without Farmers” Wendell Berry, in The Atlantic 2015
- “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking” Richard Buchanon, in Design Issues Vol 8, 1992
- “Ground Truthing” Tempest Williams, in the Orion Magazine, 2004
- Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees, Sonja Dumpelmann, 2019
- Landscape and Power: Space, Place, and Landscape 2nd edition, preface, W.J.T. Mitchell, 2002
- “Airport, Landscape, Environment” excerpted from Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age, Sonja Dumpelmann, 2016
- Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture, 2015
- “Introduction”, Sonja Dumpelmann, John Beardsley
- “Creating New Landscapes for Old Europe: Herta Hammerbacher, Sylvia Crowe, Maria Teresa Parpagliolo” Sonja Dumpelmann
- What Is Landscape? (Introduction) 2015, John Stilgoe
- Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture, 2000
- “Ian McHarg. Environmentalism and Landscape Architecture. Ideas and Methods in Context.” Anne Whiston Spirn
- “Slow Landscape: A New Erotics of Sustainability” in Harvard Design Magazine vol 31, 2009/2010, Elizabeth Meyer
- “Sustaining Beauty. The Performance of Appearance. A Manifesto in 3 parts.” in Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2008, Elizabeth Meyer
- Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent (Introduction: River Literacy), 2019, Dilip da Cunha
- Ecological Urbanism, 2010, M Mostafavi & G Doherty
- “The Sea and Monsoon Within: A Mmbai Manifesto” Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha
- Recovering Landscape, 1999, James Corner (Ed)
- “Neigher Wilderness Nor Home: The Indian Maidan” Anuradha Mathur
- Design with Nature Now, 2019
- “Traverse Before Transect” Anuradha Mathur
- “Design with Change” Rob Holmes
- “Operational Eidetics: Forging New Landscapes” in Harvad Design Magazine, 1998, James Corner
- Ecological Design and Planning, 1997
- “Ecology and Landscape as Agents of Creativity” James Corner
- The Landscape Imagination: Collected Essays of James Corner (preface) 1990-2010, James Corner
- Projective Ecologies, 2014, C Reed and NM Lister
- “Ecology and Design: Parallel Genealogies”
- “Curious Methods” in Places Journal, 2017, Karen Lutsky and Sean Burkholder
- “Methodolatry and the Art of Measure” in Places Journal, 2013, Shannon Mattern
- Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, 2010, Jane Bennett
- “Chaper 1: The Force of Things”
- “Chapter 2: The Agency of Assemblages”
- Autonomous Nature: Problems of Prediction and Control from Ancient Time to the Scientific Revolution, 2016
- “Vexing Nature: Francis Bacon and The Origin of Experimentation” Carolyne Merchant
- “Interacting with Simulations” in LA+SIMULATION Fall 2016, Eduardo Rico and Enriqueta Llabres Valls
- Unearthed: The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates (introduction), 2013, Karen M’Closkey
- Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies, 2016, Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann
- “Speaking of Geodesign” in GIS Science 1, 2012, Dana Tomlin
- “On the Escape of Tigers: An Ecologic Note” in American Journal of Public Health and the Nation’s Health, 1970 (?), William Haddon
- Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm, 1994,
- “Cannibal City: Los Angeles and the Destruction of Nature” Mike Davis
- Letters to the Leader of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City, 2018, Zhongjie Lin
- “When Green was the New Black: What Went Wrong with China’s Eco-city Movement?”
- The Latin American Urban Landscape: A Mosaic of Enhanced Influences, 2019, David Gouverneur
- Responsive Urbanism in Informal Areas, 2014, David Gouverneur
- “The Informal Armature Approach”
- Landscape Ecological Urbanism Landscape and Urban Planning, 2011, Frederick Steiner
- “Landscape, Public Imagination, and the Green New Deal” in the Landscape Architecture Magazine, 2019, Nicholas Pevzner
- “Design and the Green New Deal” in Places Journal, 2019, B. Fleming
- “Professional-Managerial Chasm”, 2019, G. Winant
- Planning Theory, 2006, Ananya Roy
- “Praxis in the Age of Empire”
- “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic, 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- ANY: Architecture New York, 1998, Stan Allen
- “Diagrams Matter”
- Speculative Everything, 2014, Anthony Dunn and Fiona Raby
- “Zone: The Spatial Softwares of Extrastatecraft” in Places Journal, 2012, Keller Easterling
- “Junkspace”, 2002, Rem Koolhaas
- New Geographies, 2019, Christopher Marcinkoski
- “Fallow or Failure? Urbanization in the Age of Speculation”
- “Stewardship Now? Reflections on Landscape Architecture’s Raison d’etre in the 21st century” in Landscape Journal, 2015, Richard Weller
- “Landscaper Genres: Towards a Taxonomy of Contemporary Landscape Architecture” Landscape Architecture Frontier, 2019, RJ Weller
- Human Destiny in the Antrhopocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch, 2015, Clive Hamilton
- After Nature – A Politics of the Anthropocene, 2015, Jebediah Purdy
- “Imagining the Anthropocene”
- “Making Kin” Environmental Humanities vol 6, 2015, Donna Haraway
- “We are Designing the Planet Whether You Like it or Not” in The Dirt, 2019, Richard Weller
- LA+: https://laplusjournal.com
- Scenario Journal: https://scenariojournal.com
- “Several Short Sentences About Writing” in Ecotone vol. 7 number 2, 2012, Verlyn Klinkenborg
Should you read one a day, and only the referenced excerpts, this is roughly two months of reading. Should you delve into the texts a bit more you might find yourself well occupied for several more months. I hope you enjoy this list! If anything is unclear or you need help finding something let me know in the comments and I will do my best to help out. Enjoy!
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