Arcadia Updated

"In an era where connections to landscape are being disciplined into increasingly positivist frames, Arcadia Updated offers a lifeline. Fiskevold and Geelmuyden present a vivid reminder of the place of the imagination in the analysis of landscapes, as well as the welcome resuscitation of the concept of narrative. Theoretically rich, and well-supported by a range of case studies, this book has broad appeal for landscape architects and planners from both academic and practice perspectives." Jacky Bowring, Lincoln University, New Zealand

Autorentext

Marius Fiskevold received a Cand. Agric. in landscape architecture from the Agricultural University of Norway in 1998. He worked as a landscape designer and planner for a number of consulting companies for 10 years before starting a PhD study, which he finished in 2012 with a thesis entitled "The road as will and representation: landscape analysis and aesthetic experience". In addition to his work as a landscape architect and planner, he draws heavily on his long experience with and passion for landscape photography. All the original photographs in this book are his. He now works as a landscape architect at Sweco Norge AS and as an assistant professor at the School of Landscape Architecture at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

Anne Katrine Geelmuyden received a Cand. Agric. in landscape architecture from the Agricultural University of Norway in 1982. She gained a PhD from the same university in 1989 with a thesis entitled "Landscape experience and landscape: ideology or critique of ideology?", an early example of the social constructivist approach in landscape studies, at least within landscape architecture. She works as a professor at NMBU, where she heads the programme board at the School of Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on the conceptualisation of landscape, landscape aesthetics and landscape criticism.

Zusammenfassung
Including 30 black and white images, this book analyses the emotional and cognitive aspects of human engagement with land and seeks to raise landscape awareness as an individual but also collective act of imagination.

Inhalt

Preface

1. Introduction: Reinterpreting Landscapes in an Evolving World

2. The Pastoral Tradition as Inherited Motives

3. From Classical Pastorals to Pastoral Landscapes: Rebirth of the Landscape Idea Through Analytical Narration

4. Instances of Pastoral Motivation in Contemporary Landscape Analytical Practice

5. Articulating Analytical Narratives of Contemporary Pastoral Landscapes

6. The Landscape Analyst's Pastoral Action

Glossary