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Gewinner des DAM Architectural Book Award 2011
Distance and EngagementWalking, Thinking and Making Landscape

Günther Vogt and his landscape designers bring a lot of passion to their research and to their search for ideas for transforming undesigned sites or tracts of land into landscapes. They don’t want to depend just on knowledge acquired from books. They venture out into the landscape at all times of the day and year and interrogate what they see there. They make room for art and science in their studies and use the same tools to turn their landscape designs into reality. Most of their “field trips” begin out of curiosity based on something they’ve seen, heard, or read. Against this backdrop, they explore, among other things, fortifications in France, the Upper Rhine in Switzerland, and national parks in England. The results of their “field trips,” research projects, and practical implementations are collected in this publication. “Distance and Engagement” takes up where “Miniature and Panorama” left off and shows not only what Günther Vogt is working on but also, and above all, how he works.
Design: Integral Lars Müller
24 x 16.5 cm, 9 ½ x 16 ¼ in, 480 pages, approx. 1000 illustrations, hardcover (2010)
ISBN 978-3-03778-196-8, e
English,EUR 50.00 / USD 80.00 / GBP 50.00





7 Foreword
Between search and research (Günther Vogt)
25 Introduction
The way we work
35 Yorkshire Dales Geology
71 We Are Geomorphic Agents!
97 Novartis Campus Green
135 Novartis Campus Park
229 To The Rhine
239 French Fortifications
277 Glossary
285 Geometries of Illusion
291 London Tate Modern
315 Workshop
327 Echospace
343 Bremen European Harbour
369 The Shape of a Walk
381 Hadspen House Estate
409 London Parliament Square
439 Bibliography
447 Last Word
450 Index“This is a book about working process, a fascinating insight into the methods and approach of one of Europe’s most interesting landscape design practices.” Building Design