![]() ![]() Within this expansive scope is a focus on urban aquaculture projects by leading designers that employ mutually beneficial strategies for fish and humans to address urban coastal resiliency, wastewater management, and other contemporary urban challenges. Aquaculture Landscapes presents over thirty contemporary and historical landscapes, spanning six continents. These landscapes are characterized and enriched by multispecies interdependency, performative ecologies, collaborative practices, and aesthetic experiences between humans and fish. He is co-director of the Risk and Resilience concentration in the Master in Design Studies program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University.Īquaculture Landscapes: Fish Farms and the Public RealmĪquaculture Landscapes recovers aquaculture as a practice with a deep history of constructing extraordinary landscapes. ![]() By focusing on rivers, da Cunha depicts an ecosystem that is neither land nor water but one of ubiquitous wetness in which rain is held in soil, aquifers, glaciers, snowfields, building materials, agricultural fields, air, and even plants and animals.ĭilip da Cunha is an architect and planner based in Philadelphia and Bangalore. He analyzes waterways in terms of human design as well as topography, as exemplified in documents going back to ancient Greek cartography. The author of this book integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines defining patterns of human habitation and transportation. The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent During her tenure there she has cared for some of New York’s most important historical documents, including the Central Park collection of architectural drawings, which were conserved and documented under her supervision. Brenwall, a conservator and art historian, has worked for the New York City Municipal Archives since 2012. The Central Park is both a magnificent art book and a message from the past about what brilliant urban planning can do for a great city.Ĭynthia S. In addition, a virtual time machine takes the reader on a journey through the park as it was originally envisioned. The book also includes designs for a variety of park fixtures as well as intricate engineering drawings of infrastructure elements. This treasure trove of material ranges from the Greensward Plan – the original winning competition entry for the design of the park – to meticulously detailed maps of its landscape, and plans and elevations of both built and unbuilt buildings. Brenwall tells the story of the creation of Central Park from its conception to its completion. The Central Park: Original Designs for New York’s Greatest Treasureĭrawing on the collection in the New York City Municipal Archives, Cynthia S. ![]()
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