Braae - Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architectures increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role. The volume reflects topical concerns in theoretical, historical, philosophical, and practice-related research in landscape architectureresearch that reflects our relationship with what has traditionally been called nature. It does so at a time when questions about the use of global resources and understanding the links between human and non-human worlds are more crucial than ever.

The twenty-five chapters of this edited collection bring together significant positions in current landscape architecture research under five broad themesHistory, Sites and Heritage, City and Nature, Ethics and Sustainability, Knowledge and Practicesupplemented with a discussion of landscape architecture education. Prominent as well as up-and-coming contributors from landscape architecture and adjacent fields including Tom Avermaete, Peter Carl, Gareth Doherty, Ottmar Ette, Matthew Gandy, Christophe Girot, Anne Whiston Spirn, Ian H. Thompson and Jane Wolff seek to widen, fuel, and frame critical discussion in this growing area.

A significant contribution to landscape architecture research, this book will be beneficial not only to students and academics in landscape architecture, but also to scholars in related fields such as architecture, urban design, planning, history, and social studies.

Ellen Braae has been Professor of Landscape Architecture Theory and Method at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, since 2009, where she heads the research group Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. She has been Visiting Professor at AHO, Norway (2010), and TU Delft, the Netherlands (2018). Her research bridges design and humanities, with a focus on the transformation of post-industrial and welfare landscapes. This crossover is partly reflected in her recent book Beauty Redeemed: Recycling Post-Industrial Landscapes (2015) and partly in her position chairing the Danish Art Council | Architecture (20182021) and being a member of the National Independent Research Council for Culture and Communication (20112015).

Henriette Steiner is Associate Professor at the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the Department for Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research investigates the cultural role and meaning of architecture, cities, and landscapes. She is author of the book The Emergence of a Modern City: Golden Age Copenhagen 18001850 (Routledge, 2014) and has co-edited six academic volumes, including Architecture and Control (Brill, 2018). She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2008, and afterwards held a position as Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich in Switzerland for five years.

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Edited by Ellen Braae and Henriette Steiner

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Tom Avermaete is Professor for the History and Theory of Urban Design at ETH Zurich. He has a special research interest in the public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. His research examines precedents, with the explicit ambition to construct a critical base of design knowledge. Avermaete is the author of Another Modern (2005), amongst other works. He is co-editor of Architectural Positions (2009), Colonial Modern (2010), Architecture of the Welfare State (2014), Shopping Towns Europe (2017), and OASE Architectural Journal , as well as curator of exhibitions such as Casablanca Chandigarh (Montreal, 2015).

Alan M. Berger is Norman B. and Muriel Leventhal Professor of Advanced Urbanism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he co-directs LCAU and P-REX lab. His most recent book is Infinite Suburbia (2017, with Joel Kotkin and Celina Balderas Guzman), a global perspective on suburban expansion. In addition to his award-winning books Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America and Reclaiming the American West , his other books include Designing the Reclaimed Landscape and The Infrastructural Monument and Scaling Infrastructure (2006, with Alexander DHooghe). Prior to joining MIT, Berger was Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a Prince Charitable Trusts Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

Inge Bobbink is Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, since 2007. She trained as an architect at TU Delft and holds a postgraduate degree from the Berlage Institute. She gained her PhD at TU Delft, allowing her to expand her interest in the form and structure of the Dutch water system. In addition to developing and co-ordinating the masters programme in landscape architecture, since 2010 she has been teaching and supervising masters and PhD theses. Her current research focus is on landscape architectonics and the sustainable characteristics of global water systems. Various publications bear witness to this research agenda: Land inSight (2005), The Polder Atlas of the Netherlands (2009), Delta Urbanism (2010), Water inSight (2012), Blue Bliss (2016), and Waterworks (2017).

Anne Bordeleau is ODonovan Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is an architect and historian with publications on the temporal dimensions of drawings, maps, buildings, and architecture more generally, as well as the author of Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time: Reflections Around Anachronistic Drawings (2014). In 2016 she oversaw the creation of plaster casts as co-principal on The Evidence Room, an exhibition prepared for the Fifteenth Venice Biennale in 2016 that was also shown at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2017 and selectively as Architecture as Evidence at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Ellen Braae has been Professor of Landscape Architecture Theory and Method at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, since 2009, where she heads the research group Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. She is Visiting Professor at AHO, Norway (2010) and TU Delft, the Netherlands (2018). Her research bridges design and humanities with a focus on the transformation of post-industrial and welfare landscapes. This crossover is partly reflected in her recent book Beauty Redeemed: Recycling Post-Industrial Landscapes (2015) and partly in her position chairing the Danish Art Council | Architecture (20182021) and being a member of the National Independent Research Council for Culture and Communication (20112015).