TY - JOUR
T1 - Complex Concepts and Controlling Designs
T2 - Charles Jencks’ Landform at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
AU - Thompson, Catharine Ward
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Charles Jencks' writings as an architect and his enthusiastic inventions in the ‘Garden of Cosmic Speculation’, the private landscape developed with his late wife, Maggie Keswick, at Portrack, near Dumfries, in the Scottish Borders, have contributed to his gathering fame as a designer of monumental landscapes. In 1999, he was invited to develop an earth sculpture project at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, entitled the Landform. This reworking of the landscape in front of the early nineteenth-century Gallery of Modern Art building has received much attention and praise, not least because of the Landform’s photogenic qualities. The critique of the Landform that follows takes into account Jencks’ stated intentions and inspirations as well as traditions of earth sculpture and land modelling, particularly the eighteenth-century landscapes of Britain as well as twentieth-century precedents.
AB - Charles Jencks' writings as an architect and his enthusiastic inventions in the ‘Garden of Cosmic Speculation’, the private landscape developed with his late wife, Maggie Keswick, at Portrack, near Dumfries, in the Scottish Borders, have contributed to his gathering fame as a designer of monumental landscapes. In 1999, he was invited to develop an earth sculpture project at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, entitled the Landform. This reworking of the landscape in front of the early nineteenth-century Gallery of Modern Art building has received much attention and praise, not least because of the Landform’s photogenic qualities. The critique of the Landform that follows takes into account Jencks’ stated intentions and inspirations as well as traditions of earth sculpture and land modelling, particularly the eighteenth-century landscapes of Britain as well as twentieth-century precedents.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349872467&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/18626033.2007.9723381
DO - 10.1080/18626033.2007.9723381
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70349872467
SN - 1862-6033
VL - 2
SP - 64
EP - 75
JO - Journal of Landscape Architecture
JF - Journal of Landscape Architecture
IS - 1
ER -