The Garden and the Machine
Prieto, Eduardo
The Garden and the Machine - urbanNext, November 15, 2018. - 2702 words.
Eduardo Prieto, Essay, No Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms
Architecture’s role, Architecture&art, Architecture&nature, Beauty, Built landscape, Cities, Design, Essay, Europe, Factory, Glazed façade, Greenhouse, History, Horizontal experience, Industrial context, Landmark, Landscape, Machine, Madrid, Post-industrial Landscape, Theory, Vegetation
Few concepts have undergone an inflation of meaning as spectacular as that of the picturesque. For the writers of treatises in the Renaissance and the Baroque, the picturesque merely referred to what was worth painting; the definition was so broad – and ultimately useless – that it would have been lost to history had Joseph Addison not freed it from irrelevance at the beginning of the 18th century by turning it into something different: a novel object that produces a pleasant surprise and which, precisely for that reason, is “appealing”.
2575-5374
Architecture Concepts Desert-City
The Garden and the Machine - urbanNext, November 15, 2018. - 2702 words.
Eduardo Prieto, Essay, No Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms
Architecture’s role, Architecture&art, Architecture&nature, Beauty, Built landscape, Cities, Design, Essay, Europe, Factory, Glazed façade, Greenhouse, History, Horizontal experience, Industrial context, Landmark, Landscape, Machine, Madrid, Post-industrial Landscape, Theory, Vegetation
Few concepts have undergone an inflation of meaning as spectacular as that of the picturesque. For the writers of treatises in the Renaissance and the Baroque, the picturesque merely referred to what was worth painting; the definition was so broad – and ultimately useless – that it would have been lost to history had Joseph Addison not freed it from irrelevance at the beginning of the 18th century by turning it into something different: a novel object that produces a pleasant surprise and which, precisely for that reason, is “appealing”.
2575-5374
Architecture Concepts Desert-City