Distance and Engagement

Walking, Thinking and Making Landscape

Günther Vogt and his landscape designers bring a lot of passion to their research and to their search for ideas for transforming undesigned sites or tracts of land into landscapes. They do not want to depend just on knowledge acquired from books. They venture out into the landscape at all times of the day and year and interrogate what they see there. They make room for art and science in their studies and use the same tools to turn their landscape designs into reality.

Most of their “field trips” begin out of curiosity based on something they have seen, heard, or read. Against this backdrop, they explore, among other things, fortifications in France, the Upper Rhine in Switzerland, and national parks in England. The results of their “field trips,” research projects, and practical implementations are collected in this publication. Distance and Engagement takes up where Miniature and Panorama left off and shows not only what Günther Vogt is working on but also, and above all, how he works.

Alice Foxley
Distance and Engagement
Walking, Thinking and Making Landscape
Design: Integral Lars Müller
English, fall 2010, Hardcover
480 pages, approx. 1000 illustrations
24 x 16.5 cm, 9 ½ x 16 ¼ in
ISBN 978-3-03778-196-8, e
EUR 50.00 / USD 80.00 / GBP 50.00

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- Lars Mueller Publishers - www.lars-mueller-publishers.com