The Order of Landscape / Special Edition

The Order of Landscape / Special Edition

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Special Edition, Signed and numbered
Linen cover

The Order of Landscape presents a powerful insight into the work of a forefront figure in contemporary landscape architecture, João Gomes da Silva. Through an extensive duotone photo essay by João Carmo Simões, a collection of texts and a set of plans, the book unveils this seminal body of work.

Beginning in 1987, with Álvaro Siza in the Malagueira plan, Gomes da Silva’s career has decisively marked Portuguese contemporary architecture. From Serralves Museum Garden to Madeira’s Seafront Promenade and Lisbon's riverfront, his particular conception of new grounds proposes a formality without formalisms and a naturalness without naturalisms.

Linen cover, 32 x 24 cm, 304 pages
156 photos plates, 24 technical drawings
10 selected writings
English Edition

Regular edition available here
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Capa em tecido

Capa em tecido, 32 x 24 cm, 304 páginas
156 imagens, 23 desenhos técnicos
10 textos seleccionados
Edição em Inglês

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“A splendid book, we think!”

— Johan Boeykens, co-director of Copyright Bookshop

“In Gomes da Silva’s projects the conception of new grounds uncovers a formality without formalisms and a naturalness without naturalisms.”

— Cláudia Taborda, Postscript

“There is a specific order in landscape, which we recognise as form and space, and to which we attribute an interpretation and transformation of the pre-existing natural order. The landscape thus becomes a natural artefact, and order therein becomes the order of landscape.”

— João Gomes da Silva

“If all landscape spaces are referred to in terms of their own archetypes or original models (and are thus self-referential), one must accept also that superimposition, partial destruction, assimilation and metamorphosis are fundamental processes in transforming the landscape.”

— João Gomes da Silva

“Thickness is both dimensional and metaphorical, when one considers the act of removing layers to achieve hidden spaces and elements, by means of archaeology, thus becoming matter for a new form, space and time. The thickness of space is also the thickness of time, and landscape architecture is a lengthy phenomenon: how many different time periods can a place represent?
Our memory, collective and individual, is a spatial and sentimental experience, and we may say that that is a vital condition for the existence of Man.”

— João Gomes da Silva

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By João Gomes da Silva
Photography by João Carmo Simões
Edition by Daniela Sá and João Carmo Simões
Postscript by Cláudia Taborda
32 x 24 cm, 304 pages
Exposed spine with linen dust jacket
156 photos plates
24 technical drawings
10 selected texts

ISBN 978 989 53705 4 2
English Edition
..Autoria de João Gomes da Silva
Ensaio fotográfico de João Carmo Simões
Edição de Daniela Sá e João Carmo Simões
Posfácio de Cláudia Taborda

32 x 24 cm, 304 páginas
Lombada exposta com sobrecapa em tecido
156 imagens
24 desenhos técnicos
10 textos
ISBN 978 989 53705 0 4
Edição em Inglês....
João Gomes da SilvaGraduated in Landscape Architecture from the Universidade de Évora in 1987, and lectured there as an assistant from 1987 till 1994. Since 2001 he is Associate Professor at the Architecture Department of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. He has also been invited to lecture in several other universities, and has participated in conferences and workshops, within the scope of theory and practice in Landscape Architecture, both nationally and internationally. Since 2010 is Adjunct Professor at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, and in 2015 was invited as a visiting professor in Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, department of Landscape Architecture together with João Nunes. In 1990-91 was awarded the Schinkel Prize, in Landscape Architecture, with Inês Norton and João Mateus, in Berlin, Germany. in Barcelona. In 2010, with the Cycling Track – Belém_Cais do Sodré segment, in co-authorship with Atelier P06, was distinguished with the following awards: Red Dot – design Award; SEGD – Merit Award; D&AD-in Book e European Design Awards - Silver Award. In 2010 with the Project for the São Jorge Castle, in co-authorship with Architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça, was awarded the Piranesi Award. Since 1987, he has dedicated his professional life, individually or in collaboration, to the critical production of Landscape.
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monade x Serralves, Porto
25.11.2023 A CONVERSATION AROUND THE BOOK with Álvaro Siza, Aurora Carapinha, Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões, João Gomes da Silva, Paulo David, Philippe Vergne.
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monade x maat / Fundação EDP, Lisboa
31.10.2023 A CONVERSATION AROUND THE BOOK with João Gomes da Silva, Aurora Carapinha, Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, João Pinharanda, Sérgio Mah.
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..monade x Serralves, Porto
25.11.2023 LANÇAMENTO E CONVERSA EM TORNO DO LIVRO com Álvaro Siza, Aurora Carapinha, Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões, João Gomes da Silva, Paulo David, Philippe Vergne.
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monade x maat / Fundação EDP, Lisboa
31.10.2023 LANÇAMENTO E CONVERSA EM TORNO DO LIVRO com João Gomes da Silva, Aurora Carapinha, Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, João Pinharanda e Sérgio Mah....
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