Landscape is not Nature
(july 2020)
Camila Medina (ed.); several autores
Paperback 17 x 24 cm | 248 pp.
Spanish + English
ISBN: 978-956-9571-79-4
The title of the book is a provocation—an invitation to think of landscape not as something given, but as something constructed through history, projects, art, technique, representations, and experience, among others.
Landscape is not Nature offers a carefully curated selection of brief yet insightful essays originally published on www.lofscapes.com, written by more than 40 authors, alongside three texts previously unpublished in Spanish, all translated into English as well. The volume opens with a contribution by Anita Berrizbeitia, prominent professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard; Camila Medina, LOFscapes’ editor-in-chief, reflects on the concept of landscape; and renowned researcher and academic Romy Hecht examines landscape in Chile from a critical and locally rooted perspective. Accessible and engaging, this 200-page book invites a broad audience to continue building a culture of landscape in Chile.