2G Dossier: New Latin American Landscape Architecture

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ISBN: 9788425223099
English/Spanish edition
Editorial Gustavo Gili
Softcover, 144 pages
23 x 30 cm
February 2009
€28,37 (excl. VAT)

2G Dossier: New Latin American Landscape Architecture

Miquel Adrià Ed(s)

Series: 2G Dossier

This volume explores the relationship between landscape and architecture by means of more than twenty current Latin American examples, the aim being to demonstrate the interaction between the two disciplines. Architectures that appear, firstly, to have less to do with the objective idea that preserves the reality of a devastated planet, and secondly, a modified, domesticated landscape.

The works chosen extend from architectures inserted as objects in the landscape-a house by Gabriel Orozco, for example-to architectures that not only constitute the support but also the container of domesticated bits of nature; the Orchidorama in Medellín, for instance. Other examples are based on experiments, games and temporary installations whose common denominator is an alteration of the landscape per se. Also included in this number are more landscapist schemes that define territories, make them accessible, and at the same time introduce monumental elements so that they may take on the characteristics of genuine places.