The Order of Landscape / Special Edition

The Order of Landscape / Special Edition

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Special Edition, signed and numbered
Linen cover

The Order of Landscape presents a powerful insight into the work of a forefront figure in contemporary landscape architecture, João Gomes da Silva. Through an extensive duotone photo essay by João Carmo Simões, a collection of texts and a set of plans, the book unveils this seminal body of work.

Beginning in 1987, with Álvaro Siza in the Malagueira plan, Gomes da Silva’s career has decisively marked Portuguese contemporary architecture. From Serralves Museum Garden to Madeira’s Seafront Promenade and Lisbon's riverfront, his particular conception of new grounds proposes a formality without formalisms and a naturalness without naturalisms.

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Linen cover, 32 x 24 cm, 304 pages
156 photos plates, 24 technical drawings
10 selected writings
English Edition

Regular edition out of stock

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Edição Especial, assinada e numerada
Capa em tecido

The Order of Landscape presents a powerful insight into the work of a forefront figure in contemporary landscape architecture, João Gomes da Silva. Through an extensive duotone photo essay by João Carmo Simões, a collection of texts and a set of plans, the book unveils this seminal body of work.

Beginning in 1987, with Álvaro Siza in the Malagueira plan, Gomes da Silva’s career has decisively marked Portuguese contemporary architecture. From Serralves Museum Garden to Madeira’s Seafront Promenade and Lisbon's riverfront, his particular conception of new grounds proposes a formality without formalisms and a naturalness without naturalisms.

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Capa em tecido, 32 x 24 cm, 304 páginas
156 imagens, 23 desenhos técnicos
10 textos seleccionados
Edição em Inglês

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Edição regular esgotada

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A splendid book, we think!
— Johan Boeykens, co-director of Copyright Bookshop
The Order of Landscape fills a major gap in a crucial sector of our discipline.
— Casabella 956
....João Gomes da Silva’s book is the irrefutable proof that it is this qualification of our landscape, our architecture and our territory that deserves to be a priority. ..O livro de João Gomes da Silva é prova irrefutável que é esta qualificação da nossa paisagem, da nossa arquitectura e do nosso território que merece ser prioridade. ....
— Jornal Observador (Vasco Rosa)

In Gomes da Silva’s projects the conception of new grounds uncovers a formality without formalisms and a naturalness without naturalisms.
— Cláudia Taborda, Postscript
There is a specific order in landscape, which we recognise as form and space, and to which we attribute an interpretation and transformation of the pre-existing natural order. The landscape thus becomes a natural artefact, and order therein becomes the order of landscape.
— João Gomes da Silva
Thickness is both dimensional and metaphorical, when one considers the act of removing layers to achieve hidden spaces and elements, by means of archaeology, thus becoming matter for a new form, space and time. The thickness of space is also the thickness of time, and landscape architecture is a lengthy phenomenon: how many different time periods can a place represent?
Our memory, collective and individual, is a spatial and sentimental experience, and we may say that that is a vital condition for the existence of Man.
— João Gomes da Silva
 
 
 
 
 

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