AESTHETICS
In the history of philosophy the ‘beautiful’ and the ’sublime’ are two concepts related to the distanced relationship between the individual and the landscape.
beautiful > observation, belongs to understanding, formal, pleasure | admiration
sublime > immersion, belongs to reason, boundlessness, pleasure | but also awe = distance
According to Kant there are two types of the sublime. [...]
Archive for December, 2008
thesis notes :: 4 | thoughts
Posted in Fabrique diary, tagged landscape design, systems on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
thesis notes :: 3 | re-definition
Posted in Fabrique diary, tagged landscape design, systems on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
:: re-definition ::
Lands(p)a(c)e is an installation based on the notion of landscape as a generator of spatial experience. Landscape, as a construct, derives from nature with the emergence of the subject, which stands ‘outside’ nature and selects he set of the elements which orchestrate landscape. On the contrary, Lands(p)a(c)e suggests that the subject re-immerses in [...]
