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• W109330942 abstract "Reading Landscapes Frederick Steiner A book award was introduced for the first time to this awards program in 2008. As jurors from previous years have observed, books in the research category often have an unfair advantage over scholarly work that may be less formally presented, as reports or peer-reviewed articles. The decision was thus made to recognize this difference and add a seventh prize. The new category, which received nineteen entries, proved to be one of the most challenging to judge. The landscape architecture books were especially impressive. Three reviewed the accomplishments, respectively, of the late Karl Linn; of Peter Latz and Partners; and of Chris Reed and his StossLU landscape urbanism colleagues. Thoughtful books on open space and experiential land- scapes were also considered, including one on aural land- scapes. There was even an in-depth case study of a green roof at the headquarters of the American Society of Land- scape Architects, in Washington, D.C. For the jury, the final choice eventually came down to Mark Gillem’s America Town, the eventual winner, or Tom Campanella’s The Concrete Dragon. The winner is described elsewhere in this issue. However, for several jurors, The Concrete Dragon was a strong alternative. A superbly pro- duced book, it reflects the author’s deep association with China, and uses photographs to illustrate the nature and scale of that country’s changing landscape. Since the jury convened, I have read The Concrete Dragon, and can recom- mend it to everyone interested in China’s rapid urbaniza- tion. It is a remarkable book. The Languages of Landscapes Of the other submissions, I would like to briefly describe two handsome books that focus on new ways to read landscapes. In his wonderful E 40° (University of Virginia Press, 2006), Jack Williams explores small towns along the eastward-angling axis of the Appalachian cordil- lera. The other, Deccan Traverses, by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha (Rupa & Co., 2006), explores the terrain of the city of Bangalore, India, using innovative graphic tools to represent human agency in landscape. Jack Williams begins his book with a geological map of the eastern United States, “showing the great sweep of the Appalachian Mountains east 40 degrees from Alabama to the coast of Maine” (p. VII). The maps that follow, some conventional, some less so, include historical maps, U.S. Opposite: The covers of Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha’s Deccan Traverses; Tom Campanella’s Concrete Dragon; and Jack Williams’ E 40°. Geological Survey maps, street maps, topographic maps, and figure-ground maps familiar to landscape architects, planners, and architects. Williams also presents stacked axonometric diagrams to illustrate relationships, and draws on historical, aerial, and contemporary photographs for his analysis. Mathur and da Cunha employ similar devices, but are even more unconventional in their mapping. In this regard, they build on their earlier book, Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (a work cited by Williams, and the winner of a 2001 EDRA/Places research award). Where Williams draws simple diagrams of almost De Stijl quality to illus- trate typologies along the 40 degrees east Appalachian axis, Mathur and da Cunha produce seductive, dense collages to reveal the complex terrain of the Deccan Plateau—the loca- tion of Bangalore, “the Garden City of India.” They also use drawings and paintings from the past and employ transects to tell their interwoven tale of people and place. The brilliant graphic explorations by Mathur and da Cunha contain a deep tapestry of information. They weave visual strains to create dazzling screen prints that compel the reader to look more closely and to return repeatedly as additional information is introduced. The prints come at the ends of chapters as a visual synthesis of information and a bridge to the next. For example, pages 86 and 87 contain the screen prints “Baseline 1” and “Baseline 2” that con- clude the chapter titled “Base Line.” That chapter is also part of a section of Deccan Traverses devoted to the nineteenth-century British survey of India, called the Great Trigonometrical Survey. Mathur and da Cunha describe how Colonel William Lambton estab- lished this survey, beginning with the measurement of a baseline in Bangalore in 1800. Through maps, transects, drawings, and photographs, they then document Lamb- ton’s efforts to create orderly maps from the messy natural terrain. Similarly, Williams shows how settlements along the Appalachians impose order through gridded street layouts and courthouse squares. Whereas Williams explores a region and places familiar to me and other Americans, Mathur and da Cunha address a more exotic terrain. In E 40°, as new landscape and urban relationships are revealed, we learn much about a promi- nent American region. While I learned much from Deccan Traverses, the Bangalore region remains exotic to me; perhaps it has grown even more so. Both books open new territories for understanding and representing landscapes. In each case, the strong visual images are reinforced by thoughtful prose that tells engag- ing stories about living landscapes. Steiner / Reading Landscapes" @default.
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