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Arcadia en Metropolis, het landschapsexperiment van de Verlichting: Anatomie van het picturale ontwerp in de landschapsarchitectuur
No full textIn dit proefschrift is de ontwikkeling van de 18e eeuwse Engelse landschapstuin onderzocht. In deze tuinen heeft het experimentele instrumentarium van de landschapsarchitectuur zich verbreed en verdiept, vooral waar het de omgang met de natuur en het cultuurlandschap betreft. Deze tuinen zijn, niettegenstaande hun schilderachtigheid, als een architectonische constructie benaderd. Wat is the geometry of the picturesque, hoe verhoudt het architectonisch instrumentarium zich tot de genius loci, de ruimtelijke eigenschappen en de geschiedenis van de plek en het landschap waarin zij liggen? De picturale landschapsarchitectuur is vervolgens geplaatst in het bredere kader van de conceptuele ontwikkeling van de landschapsarchitectuur als geheel. Waar ligt haar virtuoze moment, waarin werden de grenzen van het rationele en formele concept van de Italiaanse villatuin en de Franse baroktuin overschreden en er iets nieuws ontstond? Met het picturale instrumentarium kreeg de landschapsarchitectuur vat op de ruimtelijke ontwikkeling van stad en land binnen definitief opengebroken en sterk veranderende maatschappelijke verhoudingen. De betekenis van dit instrumentarium ligt vooral in zijn transformatieve kracht, die het alledaagse cultuurlandschap als een kunstwerk aan de orde stelt. In die zin was de landschapstuin de wegbereider van het hedendaagse metropolitane landschap, waarin het gehele cultuurlandschap tot architectonisch speelveld is verklaard.Architectur
The Sigiriya Royal Gardens
No full textBesides the efforts that are of a descriptive and celebrative nature, studies related to Sri Lanka’s historical built heritage largely view material remains in historical, sociological, socio-historical and semiological perspectives. There is hardly any serious attempt to view such material remains from a technical-analytical approach to understand the compositional aspects of their design. The 5th century AC royal complex at Sigiriya is no exception in this regard. The enormous wealth of information and the material remains unearthed during more than 100 years of field-based research by several generations of archaeologists provide an ideal opportunity for such analysis. The present study aims, therefore, to fill the gap in research related to Sri Lanka’s historical built heritage in general, and to Sigiriya in particular. Therefore, the present research attempts to read Sigiriya as a landscape architectonic design to expose its architectonic composition and design instruments. The study, which is approached from a technicalanalytical point of view, follows a methodological framework that was developed at the Landscape Design Department of the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. The study reveals that the architectonic design of Sigiriya constitutes multiple design layers and multiple layers of significance with materialspatial- metaphorical-functional coherence, and that it has both general and unique landscape architectonic elements, aspects, characteristics and qualities. The richness of its composition also enables the identification of the landscape architectural value of Sigiriya, which will help reshape policies related to conservation and presentation of Sigiriya as a heritage site, as well as to its protection and management as a green monument. The positive results of the study also underline that the methodology adopted in this research provides a framework for the study of other examples of historical gardens and landscapes in Sri Lanka, which will eventually provide insight into the typological aspects of a possible Sri Lankan tradition of landscape design.UrbanismArchitectur
De stap over de horizon: Een ontleding van het formele ontwerp in de landschapsarchitectuur
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Hidden landscapes: The metropolitan garden and the genius loci
No full textThis thesis aims at the landscape architecture of the enclosed garden as an expression of the genius loci: definition, analysis, typology and transformation. The process of metropolisation tends to eliminate, or at least hide, the underlying landscape. The research addresses the question of how the genius loci can be made accessible in the metropolitan landscape, focusing on the concept of place. Can place be designed? The metropolitan landscape is understood here as the spatial expression of the profound mix of city and landscape, nature and culture, production and consumption, the far-reaching influence of urbanity. This global phenomenon leads to a diffused and fragmented landscape with many different spatial conditions, existing next to and on top of each other, in a constant process of formation. If a garden - the classical means of expressing the landscape - is also capable of expressing metropolitan conditions, then we may call it a metropolitan garden. These conditions could be the generic, metropolitan condition that has led to its existence - such as the landscape of infrastructure or the skyscraper landscape - or they could have emerged as the garden developed and matured. The metropolitan garden, as a defined space in the continuous metropolitan field, as well as an anchor point to the landscape topography, provides an alternative way to access the landscape horizon, the reference to nature, and the connection to the underlying landscape. In the landscape architecture of the metropolitan garden, artificial and natural can no longer be viewed as complementary notions. The garden as an abstraction of nature is thus an experimental playground of the metropolitan landscape. This form of abstraction can be called ‘super-nature’: sensory nature, brought close to man, part of daily life, and part of the metropolis. It is as artificial as it is natural, bringing together the architectural and the ecological view of the 20th century. The processes of time, growth and decay, whimsicality, abundance, rough materials, and tactility, play a large part in the contemporary metropolitan garden. The processes of nature, growth and decay, whimsicality, abundance, rough materials, and tactility, play a large part in the contemporary metropolitan garden. The notion of place is elaborated upon as the inherent characteristics of a geographical location, which are perceivable as a coherent ensemble, different from its surroundings. Yet it is also the surroundings which determine at least part of these characteristics. In order to be defined as ‘place’ three components are at play. Firstly, it is meaningful: there is an affective bond between people and place (sense of place). Secondly it is determined by its landscape characteristics (‘personality’ of the location). Both are united in a definite space, on the scale of the human being, small in relation to the scale of landscape (third component: definition of form). Since it is already determined by its landscape characteristics, place cannot be designed, but it can be made accessible by design: through form place becomes perceptible. The garden asserts the hidden qualities of the location and denotes the location as a place. The opportunity interstitial gardens offer for the metropolitan landscape, is that they can function as places outside, juxtaposing their metropolitan context by emphasising specific locations, and reflecting the landscape from the margins of the metropolitan tissue. These marginal spaces could be developed into an interstitial strategy of metropolitan gardens: a new layer of precise anchor points to the genius loci.UrbanismArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Architectuur en landschap: Rationele, formele en picturale enscenering en het situatief ontwerpen
No full textDit boek levert een bijdrage aan de discussie in een poging tot herwaardering van de landschapsarchitectuur door het instrumentarium dat in bloeiperioden van de landschapsarchitectuur is ontwikkeld, bloot te leggen en te ontrafelen. Hierbij is bewust gekozen voor een beperking van besproken onderwerpen om wezenlijke vernieuwingen in het juiste licht te stellen.Architectur
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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