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Site/Non‐Site: Extending the Parameters in Contemporary Landscape
Author(s) -
Spens Michael
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.418
Subject(s) - architecture , landscape architecture , landscape architect , landscape history , field (mathematics) , landscape design , work (physics) , environmental ethics , history , landscape archaeology , archaeology , geography , civil engineering , engineering , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , mechanical engineering
As the world teeters on the verge of environmental collapse, landscape architecture has taken on a new significance offering a longed‐for sanctuary for our increasingly urbanised lives. Here, in his introduction to the issue, guest‐editor Michael Spens explains how by taking its impetus from land art, landscape architecture, as an expanded field, transcends the conventional confines of site. This renders it possible to read architecture ‘as landscape, or as non‐landscape, as building becomes non‐site’ and the ‘site indeed materialises as the work per se’. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.