1st Edition
Landscape Is...! Essays on the Meaning of Landscape
Landscape Is...! examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. Following on from the previous publication Is Landscape…? which examined the plural and promiscuous identities of the landscape idea, this companion volume reflects upon the diverse and multiple meanings of landscape as a discipline, profession, and medium. This book is intended for academics, researchers, and students in landscape architecture and cognate disciplines. Chapters address various overlooked aspects of landscape that develop, disturb, and diversify received understandings of the field. Framed as an inquiry into the relationship of landscape to the forms of human subjectivity, the book features contributions from leading voices who challenge the contemporary understandings of the field in relation to capital and class, race and gender, power and politics, and more.
Foreword: Landscape Is History
Thaïsa Way
Introduction
Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim
1. Is Landscape Fieldwork?
Gareth Doherty
2. Is Landscape Capital?
Douglas Spencer
3. Is Landscape Colonial?
Burcu Yiğit-Turan
4. Is Landscape Empowerment?
Jala Makhzoumi
5. Is Landscape Gendered?
Sonja Dümpelmann
6. Is Landscape Imperial?
John Edward Crowley
7. Is Landscape Indigenous?
Ọlátúnjí Adéjùmọ̀
8. Is Landscape Elitist?
Alison Hirsch
9. Is Landscape Just?
Kofi Boone
10. Is Landscape Labor?
Danielle N. Choi
11. Is Landscape Public?
Ed Wall
12. Is Landscape Queer?
Kate Thomas
13. Is Landscape Collaborative?
Tarna Klitzner
14. Is Landscape Reconciliation?
Ujijji Davis Williams
15. Is Landscape Insurgency?
António Tomás
16. Is Landscape Haunted?
Edward Eigen
17. Is Landscape Language?
Anne Whiston Spirn
18. Is Landscape Human?
Charles Waldheim
Biography
Gareth Doherty is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Charles Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
