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GENERAL TEXTS / SURVEY(S) The following books have been placed on reserve in the Fine Arts Library and are for general reading in landscape-architectural history. These texts will provide background and depth on subjects and sites addressed in lecture and discussion sections. This list will be amended periodically, as the course progresses. I. GARDEN & ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: James S. Ackerman, The Villa: Form & Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990) Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream (1499) (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999) Claudia Lazzaro, The Italian Renaissance Garden (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990) Denise & Jean-Pierre le Dantec, Reading the French Garden (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990) Dorothee Imbert, The Modernist Garden in France (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993) Charles Moore et alia, The Poetics of Gardens (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988) Monique Mosser & Georges Teyssot (eds.), The Architecture of Western Gardens (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991) Norman Newton, Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1971) Erwin Panofsky, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art (Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1965) Clemens Steenbergen & Wouter Reh, Architecture & Landscape: The Design Experiment of the Great European Gardens & Landscapes (New York: Prestel, 1996) Manfredo Tafuri, Venice & the Renaissance, trans. Jessica Levine (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989) __________, Theories & History of Architecture, trans. Giorgio Verrecchia (New York: Harper & Row, 1980) Gilles A. Tiberghien, Land Art (Paris: Editions Carre, 1995) Marc Treib (ed.), Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993) Virgilio Vercelloni, European Gardens: An Historical Atlas (New York: Rizzoli, 1990) Peter Walker & Melanie Simo, Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994) Udo Weilacher, Between Landscape Architecture & Land Art (Basel: Birkhauser, 1996) Allen S. Weiss, Unnatural Horizons: Paradox & Contradiction in Landscape Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998) John Dixon Hunt, Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2000) II. AESTHETICS & PHILOSOPHY: Giorgio Agamben, Infancy & History: Essays on the Destruction of Experience, trans. Liz Heron (London: Verso, 1993) __________, The Coming Community, trans. Michael Hardt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1993) George Baird, The Space of Appearance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995) James Corner (ed.), Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999) Midas Dekkers, The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins (New York: FSG, 2000) Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996) __________, The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (New York: New Press, 1998) __________, Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1985) Marco Frascari, Monsters of Architecture: Anthropomorphism in Architectural History (Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991) Clarence Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature & Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967) Joan Ockman (ed.), Architecture, Criticism, Ideology (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1985) Alberto Perez-Gomez, Architecture & the Crisis of Modern Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983) __________, Architectural Representation & the Perspective Hinge (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997) Roland Ritter & Bernd Knaller-Vlay (eds.), Other Spaces: The Affair of the Heterotopia, Dokumente zur Architektur 10 (Graz: Haus der Architektur, 1998) Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1979) Simon Schama, Landscape & Memory (New York: Vintage, 1995) Geoffrey Scott, The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste (New York: Norton, 1999) John Summerson, Heavenly Mansions & Other Essays on Architecture (New York: Norton, 1998) Slavoj Zizek (ed.), Mapping Ideology (London: Verso, 1994) __________, The Abyss of Freedom: Ages of the World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1997) Rudolf Wittkower, Born Under Saturn (London: Weidenfeld, 1963) Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972) __________, The Art of Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966) __________, The Theatre of the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969) |
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