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art examples that help to shape (urban) landscape experiences
Excerpts of stories that help to shape (urban) landscape experience, part 6 Okay, this may be my favourite subject. In some ways a guilty pleasure because comic books are still for geeks or the illiterate. For those of you who haven’t spent time in really good comic book stores, the below examples will hopefully improve…
Hi there. In addition to last month post, that produced quite some positive response on diverse linkedIN networks, I would recommend to watch this TEDtalk by David Byrne (former singer/frontman of the Talking Heads). He reveals the relationship between architecture and the evolution of musical styles. See here. There is another cross disciplinary influence…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-Q2fFKEq0 (music begins at 1:01) The landscape architect Olmsted declared that ‘landscapes moves us in a manner more analogous to music than anything else’ (Olmsted biography by Martin 2011, 155). He was aware of a fascinating similarity between landscape design and the ‘flow of a symphony’. Olmsted noted how sounds were amplified and bounced off…
Will landscape experiences change by the influences of smartphones and on-site-extensive-information (OSEI)? Yes, probably just as radical as novels and travel guides have changed the perspective of the tourist/public gaze, since they first became popular. The educated public notices what it has been familiarised by and vice versa, becomes numb for those experiences that are…
This excerpt is from a book by Kurt Vonnegut (1922 Indianapolis USA – 2007), an American writer who writes hilariously funny about modern or future American life. Most of his books are written from the perspective of the cast-out, such as individuals with exceptional skills or physical appearances, that render them an atmosphere of weirdness.…
Starting this new year, 2014, I intend to create posts that are different from what I wrote about in the past months. There are literary excerpts to be shared with you, containing diverse aspects of landscape experiences. Diverse landscapes create an equal diversity of experiences. The first excerpt is from a book I cherish deeply.…
Today appears to be an ordinary day, yet from an imaginative perspective it is a colossal day. Today I finished reading the last book of a long series of highly detailed landscape fantasies: The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson who took over when Jordan died in 2007). It was only in…
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