Landscape Spoliation
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 670
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Interests: architectural history and theory; sustainable luxury; landscape architecture; visual arts; philosophy of sloth; Mediterranean and Latin American modernism
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Dear Colleagues,
What lies at the edges and bottom of the ocean? For instance, at the turn of the twentieth century, in Mexico City, a ship sailed some blocks of white marble from Massa Carrara, Italy, but they never arrived to be installed at Adamo Boari’s National Palace of Fine Arts. They were lost overboard and remain at the bottom of the ocean today. “Waves of Mediterranean have lapped at the development of modern architecture since the Enlightenment, reshaping its contours often as self-conscious initiatives to redefine or redirect prevailing styles, discourses, or practices” (Bergdoll in Lejeune and Sabatino, 2010: xv). Diverse cultures and their built topography have architectural spoils in common.
Through the frontline of climatic change and architecture, spoliation (or fragmentary/fabricated architecture) in the landscape is not about identifying defects in the constructed landscape but the reconciliation of architecture with damaged terrains. Spurred on by the need to house and insulate people, “landscape spoliation” (Condello, 2022), that is, the process of reconciling modern architecture and its past as well as present relationships with new open-ended places, offers people renewed lifestyles, enabling urban resilience. How does landscape spoliation affect the design of contemporary architecture through its various places and vice versa? How has architecture and its transoceanic tides in four directions altered the contemporary landscape and its inhabitants?
This Special Issue provides a platform with which to question the overlapping themes of the environment, the transoceanic trade of building materials, architectural theories, and design strategies across the continents.
Dr. Annette Condello
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- productive reuse
- botanical and cultural luxuriance
- modern and contemporary architecture
- environmental design
- landscape architecture
- urban resilience
- lost buildings
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