Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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The politics of aesthetics: expanding the critique of Headland Park, Sydney
In 2005 an international competition was announced for the redevelopment of an important post-industrial site on the edge of Sydney Harbour. This paper focuses on Headland Park, the redevelopment's showcase open space, which is expected to be completed by 2015. The design positions nature in the city in its most literal sense, recreating the naturalistic form of the headland prior to its extensive modification to accommodate maritime functions. While this design direction is dismissed by many as nostalgic, critique has proven difficult, hampered by political influence, the kudos of employing an international designer and the tendency to reduce the design vocabulary of landscape architecture to a simplistic nature-culture binary. The author argues that embedding an expanded definition of aesthetics directly within planning concepts disrupts the paralyzing nature-culture binary that presently shapes debate on the park and introduces an understanding of design integrity within development processes. How this might unfold is explored by using three planning concepts of relevance to the site: heritage, the public realm and sustainability.
The politics of aesthetics: expanding the critique of Headland Park, Sydney
In 2005 an international competition was announced for the redevelopment of an important post-industrial site on the edge of Sydney Harbour. This paper focuses on Headland Park, the redevelopment's showcase open space, which is expected to be completed by 2015. The design positions nature in the city in its most literal sense, recreating the naturalistic form of the headland prior to its extensive modification to accommodate maritime functions. While this design direction is dismissed by many as nostalgic, critique has proven difficult, hampered by political influence, the kudos of employing an international designer and the tendency to reduce the design vocabulary of landscape architecture to a simplistic nature-culture binary. The author argues that embedding an expanded definition of aesthetics directly within planning concepts disrupts the paralyzing nature-culture binary that presently shapes debate on the park and introduces an understanding of design integrity within development processes. How this might unfold is explored by using three planning concepts of relevance to the site: heritage, the public realm and sustainability.
The politics of aesthetics: expanding the critique of Headland Park, Sydney
DrWalliss, Jillian (Autor:in)
Journal of Landscape Architecture ; 7 ; 6-13
01.12.2012
8 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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