Abstract
The landscape project entails a necessary understanding of the space in which action is taking place. It also requires the interiorisation of processes and structures that necessarily fall outside the scope of the project but which have an unmistakeable influence over it. Hence, it is of great importance to work constantly on the change of scale in order to understand to what extent our intervention affects the system, and how this simultaneously influences our space of action. However, this game of physical scale is not enough. The concept of temporary scape should be incorporated as an aspect inherent to the actual materiality of any land. Understanding that landscape is the result of processes taking place over time is essential in order to approach any intervention project coherently.
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Fortunately, there are increasingly more professionals who carry out their work following these intangible landscape footprints, permitting the identity of the site to be conserved through their action. In Spain, among other contributions of interest, the work of Rosa Barba, establishing the bases for this sensitive approach to landscape, stand out and were subsequently developed at a large scale in the Catalonia Landscape Catalogues.
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Publication of this book accounted for a true conceptual revolution in the way projects were tackled in a territory.
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The footprint left in Spain by Richard T.T. Forman through his work on the Emerald Network in the metropolitan area of Barcelona brought deeper knowledge to the bases of his methodology by many professionals in our country linked to territorial planning and urban and landscape planning.
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Michel Corajoud was awarded the National Urbanism Prize in France in 2003 and has carried out his teaching career in conjunction with his professional activity. He is very approachable for students, and in this text, he talks about the keys to properly address a landscape project.
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A disciple of Corajoud, Michel Desvigne was awarded the National Urbanism Prize in France in 2011. The most American of the French landscapers, as Corajoud defines him, admires Olmsted’s work, who he admits has a visionary attitude by working on the most notable geographical items as the basis for creating urban green systems.
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Although the conceptual basis of Henri Lefebvre’s scheme does not exactly match the criteria expressed here, it does provide us with an exercise of constant readjustment of scales according to the demands of landscape projects.
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For Michel Desvigne, finding the right scale is an obsession which is constant and obvious in his work.
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James Corner works with processes as an inherent part of his creative activity, imagining short, medium and long-term scenarios.
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“Field Operations’ winning Lifescape project is described on the competition boards as a ‘reconstituted matrix of diverse life forms and evolving strategies’. This matrix supports the integration of physical design with geological, hydrological and biological processes at multiple scales” (Pollack 2007, 107).
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Bordeaux Rive Droite and Lyon Confluence, along with Millenium Park in London, are two of the most important projects, where Michel Desvigne develops his idea of time forms as a means to achieve urban mutations.
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Ávila, C. (2018). Landscape Projects: Scale and Place. In: Díez Medina, C., Monclús, J. (eds) Urban Visions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59047-9_27
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