Description
Book SynopsisThe New Pastoralism demonstrates how small-scale additions or conversions using planting and wildlife can bring about engaging, delightful and efficient structures and spaces. The book s numerous contributors each showcase a particular Nature device that they used to enhance their built proposals.
Trade ReviewThe ideas are thought provoking and very often beyond reality, but this serves the purpose of making us question things and look at them from an entirely new perspective. (Building Engineer, August 2013)
Table of ContentsEditorIal 5
Helen Castle
About the GUEST-EDITOR 6
Mark Titman
Spotlight 8
Visual highlights of the issue
Introduction 14
Dualism is Dead; Long Live the Pastoral
Mark Titman
Samuel Palmer and the Pastoral Vision 20
Colin Harrison
The Golden Age: Between Wilderness and Utopia 26
Dominic Shepherd
‘You Can Touch But Do Not Read’: The ‘Future-Rustic’ Work of Kathryn Findlay 32
Mark Titman
The Land of Scattered Seeds 40
John Puttick
Wild City: MVRDV – Weaving Nature and the Urban 48
Marta Pozo Gil
Surviving Versus Living: Nature and Nurture 56
May Leung
Origin of Species 60
Michael Sorkin
68 Quit the Grey Limbo and Return to Paradise68
Matthew Cannon and Mascia Gianvanni
Brave New Now 74
Liam Young
Dirty Futures: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mother Nature 82
Geoff Ward
The Persistence of the Pastoral 86
Nic Clear
Landscape Utopianism: Information, Ecology and Generative Pastoralism 94
Gregory Marinic
Digital Cottage Industries 100
Mike Aling
iPastoral 106
Mark Morris
Exist-Stencil 112
Jeffrey James
Open Fields: The Next Rural Design Revolution 118
Alastair Parvin
Next-Door Instructions 126
François Roche
Pastoral Manoeuvres: Ecologies of City, Nature and Practice 134
Duncan Berntsen
138 counterpoint 138
Et in Arcadia ego
Et in Arcadia est
Kevin Rhowbotham
Contributors 142
