Jan Haenraets, Andrew Saniga, Gulnur Cengiz (eds.)
Docomomo International, 2024

Started in 2019, the project of this book was carried out by the Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and Landscape, in collaboration with Docomomo International (under the presidency of Ana Tostões) and all working parties. It was published finally in 2024 in an online format as part of the Docomomo International Book Series #1 (series eds.: Uta Pottgiesser, Wido Quist)

This book presents a wide range of landscapes that have been integral to the Modern Movement era. It aims to raise awareness of their design significance and to broaden understanding of their diversity. It demonstrates the breadth of roles that landscape architects and affiliated designers have played in response to the demands wrought by social, political and environmental change, particularly in the post-World War II years. In this sense it draws attention to people and places that previously may have been marginally understood—‘invisible’ or ‘dislocated’—thus enabling them to be appreciated in new ways and to be considered more carefully in comparative analyses into the future.

Included in this book are 86 landscapes spanning the 20th century and representing the following 38 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Thailand, the Netherlands, Turkey, United States of America, and Venezuela.

From Portugal are included three entrances:
– Vale do Silêncio Park (1955–68)
– Gulbenkian Foundation Gardens (1963–69)
– Torre de Belém Garden (1954)

The publication includes a foreword by Ana Tostões, chair of Docomomo Portugal.

The publication received publishing grants from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Research Fund and the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne.

Docomomo International, 2024 – CC BY 4.0
ISBN/EAN: 978-90-833867-0-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.books.01

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