Landscapes in the making / Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton, editors.

Author/creator "Landscapes in the Making" (Symposium)
Other author Daniels, Stephen, editor.
Other author Upton, Dell, editor.
Format Book
PublicationWashington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxi, 368 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton -- The Labor of Landmaking / Jay Cephas / Post-Civil War Black Builders in North Carolina / Catherine W. Bishir -- "The Negroes Alone Work" The Use of Enslaved Craftsmen in the Construction of the United States Capitol / Felicia A. Bell -- Migration and Maintenance: Mesoamerican Making of Landscapes in El Norte / Michelle Franco -- Cantera Stone and Mexican Masons: the Making of Migratory Landscapes in a Transnational Arena / Sarah Lopez -- The Making of Il Gesù in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Labor in the Urban Landscape / Ann Huppert -- Multi-locality of an Ancient Maya City -- Archaeology, Tourism, and Indigenous Landscapes at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico / Lisa Johnson, Esteban Mirón Marván, and Arianna Campiani -- African American Places in the Making: Freedom-Colony Creation in Digital Spaces / Andrea Roberts -- The Making of the Ijebu Cultural Landscape through Rituo-spatial Practices / Olanrewaju Lasisi -- Making Tompkins Square Park: An Activist Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Kleindeutschland / Mars Plater -- A Garden of Scrawls and Scribbles: Amsterdam's Notarial Records as Evidence of Everyday Landscape Creation in the Eighteenth-Century City / Antonia Weiss -- Working Country: Landscape and Labor in Nineteenth-Century English Art and Design / Stephen Daniels.
Abstract "How are landscapes created? Landscapes in the Making goes beyond professional design and planning to examine the social range of knowledge, technique, and imagination in the making and meaning of landscapes, from the work of quarrying and construction to that of cultivation, maintenance, stewardship, salvage, reclamation, ritual, and remembrance. Deploying an array of documentary, visual, and field sources, the twelve chapters in the volume bring to life the agency and skill of diverse and often disregarded peoples, in a range of periods and places, working in often demanding, precarious, and coercive conditions. Chapters focus on the physical and social worlds of trash dumps, gravel pits, and abandoned canneries as well as on construction sites for churches, palaces, parks, gardens, and government buildings. In addition to focusing on local place-making, the volume surveys wider regional and international geographies of movement, both of people and materials. The landscapes described in this volume are far from finished-they are provisional, in the process of shaping and re-shaping, manifold landscapes always in the making"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"Dumbarton oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XLVI"--Page preceding title page.
General note"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Landscapes in the Making," organized by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., and held on May 6-7, 2022"--Title page verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical records and index.
LCCN 2024023156
ISBN9780884025214
ISBN0884025217

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