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- Title
The hype of representation: some thoughts on the roles of the hyperreal and the hyperobject in contemporary landscape architecture.
- Authors
Weller, Richard
- Abstract
This article argues that there are two main modes of representation in contemporary landscape architecture; the hyperreal and the hyperobject. The article compares and contrasts these modes identifying their various meanings and potentials. The hyperrealism of the images used by landscape architecture offices gives clients a sense of confidence and comfort in the world they and the designers are aiming to create. Seemingly innocent, these images can however serve to disguise the deeper, structural ecological and social problems facing contemporary cities and reinforce landscape aesthetics as exclusively picturesque. Contrary to this today in universities students and professors are trying to visualize landscape not as scenic but as complex environmental processes. The interest in visualizing flows beyond the scenic frame is heightened and made necessary by the overarching crisis of climate change and the advent of the Anthropocene. To produce a landscape architecture of our age, we need to grapple with these challenges and attempt to draw connections between the macro scale of hyperobjects and the micro scale of daily life.
- Subjects
LANDSCAPE architecture; LANDSCAPES; PHOTOREALISM; SOCIAL problems
- Publication
Ri-vista: Ricerche per la progettazione del paesaggio, 2020, Vol 19, Issue 2, p30
- ISSN
1724-6768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13128/rv-10254