https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/anne-whiston-spirn-and-the-language-of-landscape/ Gardenvisit.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:39:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/anne-whiston-spirn-and-the-language-of-landscape/#comment-1453 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:39:01 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=3113#comment-1453 Gaston Bachelard’s book is another which I need to re-read. My recollection is that it has a much more disciplined interpretation of poetics – and that I had a reservation about treating design PRIMARILY as a spatial composition. Though very important, space cannot be separated from functional or constructional considerations.

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/anne-whiston-spirn-and-the-language-of-landscape/#comment-1452 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:46:18 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=3113#comment-1452 Thank you Tom I have ordered this, it’s a great way to develop ones reading. What did you think of Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space? I thought his idea of ‘intimate immensity’ was very powerful, although the introduction verges on hermetic.

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