{"id":2832,"date":"2009-12-12T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2009-12-12T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:11:30","slug":"kerb-is-landscape-architecture-dead-a-magazine-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/kerb-is-landscape-architecture-dead-a-magazine-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerb &#8211; is landscape architecture dead? &#8211; a magazine review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RMIT University in Australia publish the annual publication <em>Kerb <\/em>and Vol 17 asks the question &#8216;Is landscape architecture dead?&#8217;. It is a good question and a handsome volume with interesting illustrations. But most of the articles in <em>Kerb <\/em>led me to think that &#8216;if this is the future of landscape architecture, then it deserves to die&#8217;. The images do not have either captions or any discernable relationship with the text. Most of the 26 articles are inconsequential: significant questions are asked; random assertions are made; obscure paragraphs abound eg1 &#8216;Contemporary landscape architecture has not produced an aesthetic paradigm that describes the vicissitudes surrounding the idea of nature today&#8217; (p 10),\u00a0 eg2 &#8216;landscape is not an object. yet this image of landscape is projected upon the world with each project you undertake&#8217; (p.73)\u00a0 eg3 &#8216;interpret &#8216;scape as meaning &#8216;pretty dress up&#8217;. Dig up a Chinese creek bed, polish the booty, and dress up my &#8216;scape outside the screen door&#8217; (p.92). But I must be wrong: many young Australian landscape architects come to work in London and they have earned a good reputation for Australia&#8217;s landscape schools.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RMIT University in Australia publish the annual publication Kerb and Vol 17 asks the question &#8216;Is landscape architecture dead?&#8217;. It is a good question and a handsome volume with interesting illustrations. But most of the articles in Kerb led me to think that &#8216;if this is the future of landscape architecture, then it deserves to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}