New book: Landscape Architecture and Infrastructure of the Twentieth Century
Preservation Studies faculty member, Jan Haenraets, Professor of the Practice, is excited to announce that the book Landscape Architecture and Infrastructure of the Twentieth Century – Selections from the Docomomo Chapters (Jan Haenraets, Andrew Saniga, Gülnur Cengiz eds.). The book is published under the CC BY 4.0 license and can be viewed or downloaded for free from the Docomomo website. As of October 1, the book will be available in print.
We are particularly proud at BU to have our Preservation Studies alum Gülnur Cengiz (M.A., 2028) as co-editor, who also celebrated this past week the completion of her Ph.D. at the University of Newcastle, UK.
“Landscape Architecture and Infrastructure of the Twentieth Century 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. The eighty-six landscapes representing thirty-eight countries demonstrate 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.
The book is published by Docomomo International as an initiative by the Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and Landscape, and 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.”