Landscape architecture amid Picturesque, Olmsted and Modernity / Arquitetura da paisagem entre o Pinturesco, Olmsted e o Moderno

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This research intends to explore the several meaning perceptions of the word landscape and their connection to the activity of the architect. Therefore, it runs at first the different concepts of the term landscape, trying to sort out of them the quality that seems fundamental to us: to be the great link to different themes, the place of multiple aesthetic values that makes meaningful the human-nature relationship. The confusion between concepts of landscape and nature, due to the supremacy of so-called science, and the subsequent outgrowth of planning corroborate the reduction of the complex meaning of the landscape concept. The question of a possible survival in modern times of aesthetic keys from the 18th century constitutes the background to the distinction of Frederick Law Olmsted as a pioneer in the activity of landscape architecture, of great significance of a whole era. Landscape as a construction of the eye appears in this elaboration, interlacing from historical examples a multiplicity of meanings that rejects to be straitened, and points to sources of possible misunderstandings. This work reaffirms the cultural and aesthetic dimension of art as motor for the inventions of landscape architecture.

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picturesque paisagem olmsted pintoresco olmsted landscape sublime

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