Den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur

In this essay, I explore the history of the ideas that have shaped the profession of landscape architecture, in a Swedish context. To this purpose, I have sampled the professional debate on landscape architecture at four points in time. These are the years around 1890, 1930, 1970 and 2010. Drawin...

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Autor principal: Eriksson, Sanna Margareta
Formato: H3
Lenguaje:sueco
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Publicado: SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101) 2013
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description In this essay, I explore the history of the ideas that have shaped the profession of landscape architecture, in a Swedish context. To this purpose, I have sampled the professional debate on landscape architecture at four points in time. These are the years around 1890, 1930, 1970 and 2010. Drawing on G N Brandt (1920), I make the distinction between two arguably crucial approaches, i . e., naturalism and formalism. By identifying these perspectives, and by dividing the arguments of each time period according to this classification, I am able to compare the course of the debate over time. I take on the task through hermeneutics. The material is the debate as articulated in a variety of text-based mediums. The conceptual division of naturalism contra formalism is to be understood as a tool for analysis. The division also necessitates a discussion on the link between man and nature, a relationship that I argue to lie deep in the discourse of landscape architecture. Furthermore, I explore a selection of influential methods, theories and ideals - those specific to landscape architectural discourse, and those coming from a more general, public debate. This leg of the essay serve to contextualise and examine the contemporary conditions for the profession. I argue that the use of the dialectical method is helpful in order to extrapolate an interdisciplinary debate that has been essential for the development of landscape architecture.
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spelling RepoSLU56872013-06-19T12:48:18Z Den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur The everlasting debate? : on naturalism vs formalism as approach within Swedish landscape architecture Eriksson, Sanna Margareta landskapsarkitekturhistoria landskapsarkitektur naturalism formalism professionalisering In this essay, I explore the history of the ideas that have shaped the profession of landscape architecture, in a Swedish context. To this purpose, I have sampled the professional debate on landscape architecture at four points in time. These are the years around 1890, 1930, 1970 and 2010. Drawing on G N Brandt (1920), I make the distinction between two arguably crucial approaches, i . e., naturalism and formalism. By identifying these perspectives, and by dividing the arguments of each time period according to this classification, I am able to compare the course of the debate over time. I take on the task through hermeneutics. The material is the debate as articulated in a variety of text-based mediums. The conceptual division of naturalism contra formalism is to be understood as a tool for analysis. The division also necessitates a discussion on the link between man and nature, a relationship that I argue to lie deep in the discourse of landscape architecture. Furthermore, I explore a selection of influential methods, theories and ideals - those specific to landscape architectural discourse, and those coming from a more general, public debate. This leg of the essay serve to contextualise and examine the contemporary conditions for the profession. I argue that the use of the dialectical method is helpful in order to extrapolate an interdisciplinary debate that has been essential for the development of landscape architecture. SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101) 2013 H3 swe eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5687/
spellingShingle landskapsarkitekturhistoria
landskapsarkitektur
naturalism
formalism
professionalisering
Eriksson, Sanna Margareta
Den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur
title Den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur
title_full Den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur
title_fullStr Den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur
title_full_unstemmed Den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur
title_short Den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur
title_sort den eviga debatten? : om naturalism eller formalism som förhållningssätt inom svensk landskapsarkitektur
topic landskapsarkitekturhistoria
landskapsarkitektur
naturalism
formalism
professionalisering