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Article: ON THE NATURE OF THINGS: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.(Gavin Keeney)(Brief Article)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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By Gavin Keeney. Basel: Birkhauser, 2000. DM118
In the first of two forewords to this hook John Dixon Hunt writes 'Contemporary landscape architecture is concerned, with good reason, to defend itself against charges of anti or un-intellectualism'. In the second foreword Alan Weiss quotes a critic of his own work, 'who bemoaned the abyss between practice and academia'.
Gavin Keeney has attempted to bridge this 'abyss' by including a section of his own theoretical essays linking his detailed critical descriptions of the work of some 13 American practices whose work illustrates many of the issues he discusses.
The 13 practices chosen are not all ...