1. Distance and Engagement
    Gewinner des DAM Architectural Book Award 2011
    Alice Foxley
    Distance and Engagement
    Walking, 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
    Alice Foxley

    Alice Foxley studied architecture in Newcastle and Bath, UK. Employed with Vogt Landscape Architects since 2003.

    “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