| design: nature conservation, art and aesthetics
BEAUTY OF “SUBLIMATED CONTRADICTIONS”
BOOK REVIEW: 250 THINGS A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW
Review by Rajat Ray
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| The unique compilation brings together a diverse set of values of the discipline of landscape architecture from the fields of ecology, environment, design, planning and urbanism, art and philosophy through the medium of multiscalar works and ideas spread across geographies and belonging to different cultures.
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This illustrated book for landscape architects is itself like a neatly ‘organized’ forest of fifty gardens with five lots in each of them. Rather unusual, this thick volume does not have a table of contents page. The best way to enter this ‘forest’ therefore is by opening the book anywhere randomly and landing directly into any one of the two hundred and fifty lots! There you will find on each recto on the right an expression in colourful or black and white images and graphics, and on each verso on the left is a corresponding statement in large typescript, together making one submission at a time. In these lots, this book captures the nature of this wonderful subject. We proceed to the content of the book following a small retrospective glance at the provenance of the Modern Discipline of Landscape Architecture to set the context for an Indian reader today.
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