Landscape Architecture Criticism

摘要

Jacky Bowring will be well known to landscape architects and others for her regular appearances at landscape conferences and her quite different books: A Field Guide to Melancholy (2008), and Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape (2016). Behind the scenes, she has made an important contribution as a long-time editor of journal Landscape Review. Her new book Landscape Architecture Criticism brings the long-overdue consideration of landscape criticism to the fore. Landscape architecture's weak theoretical underpinnings and immature critical culture is often explained away as a result of the profession's relative youth. This book seeks to address this lack. If we do not critically write and review our profession, can we expect others to? As Bowring suggests, "Landscape architecture criticism needs more - and more diverse - voices. Practical skills in evaluation, as well as dexterity in philosophical, intellectual, and lyrical criticism must be fostered."