For 25 years the LAND studio has promoted a project for the Landscape - in its fullest and culturally richest sense - in both Italy and Europe. In primis its founders; Andreas Kipar and Giovanni Sala; have introduced a vision of the ldquo;Landscaperdquo; that is not the two-dimensional scenic; picturesque curtain in a postcard image; nor the badly treated residue of uncontrolled anthropization of the territory.Contrary to an interpretation of the Landscape that is all too often reduced to a passive backdrop for economic; social and urban events; LAND interprets it with an active and productive connotation; capturing the complexities and stratifications accumulated over time.Luca Molinari
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A work of geniusBy JackWhile written in the style of mid-19th Century discourse; it is a work of genius; revealing the authors amazing breadth of concerns for humanity.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. OlmsteadBy David EngleA rich collection of Olmsteadian thinking!3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Inspiration for Earth Days goal of planting treesBy Robert C RossRead at the New York Society Library.The Earth Day Movement committed us to plant 7.8 billion trees for the Earth by 2020. As a strong believer in supporting the health of our planet; I am committed to help in the effort.That takes research; and a great place to start is with the writings of Frederick Law Olmsted.Central Park gave Olmsted his start; but there were many other projects. The National Association for Olmsted Parks has created a map showing the thousands of projects designed by the Olmsted family over a century-long span. By the early 1880s he had already designed Manhattanrsquo;s Riverside Park; Brooklynrsquo;s Prospect Park; Niagara Falls State Park; Chicagorsquo;s South Park system; and Detroitrsquo;s Belle Isle. Other commissions included numerous college campuses such as Cornell University; University of Berkeleyrsquo;s Piedmont Avenue; and the University of Maine; the management of the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove; and the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.Olmsted was devoted to trees all of his life. Olmsted argued ldquo;that both the lsquo;air purifying valuersquo; and the lsquo;decorative motiversquo; of planting trees were subordinate to its paramount object: to offer a restorative; often unconscious; lsquo;solace and comfortrsquo; to town-strained minds.rdquo; See Frederick Law Olmsted: The Passion of a Public Artist (American Social Experience Series) by Melvin Kalfus.This extract from one of the papers in this fascinating collection makes the point even more clearly:There is an association between scenes and objects such as we are apt to call simple and natural; and such as touch us so quietly that we are hardly conscious of them.But this is to be said and said sadly: As a result of the massing of population in cities; of the centering of communication in cities; of the increasing resort to cities for recreation; of the tendency of fashions to rise in and go out from the wealthy class in cities; of the prominence given by the press to the latest matters of interest to the rich and the fashion-setting classes; and of the natural assumption that people of great wealth get that for themselves that is most enjoyablemdash;as a result of all thismdash;the population of our country is being rapidly educated to look for the gratification of taste; to find beauty; and to respect art; in forms not of the simple and natural class; in forms not to be used by the mass domestically; but only as a holiday and costly luxury; and with deference to men standing as a class apart from the mass.All this tends to our impoverishment through the obscuration; supercession and dissipation of tastes which; under our older national habits; and especially under our older village habits; were productive of a great deal of happiness; and a most important source of national wealth.And I submit that; both in the planting of village streets and in the planting of town parks; this tendency is rather to be resistedby sanitarians than to be enthusiastically pursued.***There are many other treasures here.Robert C. RossApril 2016
