Michael Jakob, “Landscape Architecture and the ‘New Generic'”

Michael Jakob teaches History and Theory of Landscape at hepia, Geneva, and aesthetics of design at HEAD, Geneva. He is a visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio. He is, at the same time, Professor of ComparativeLiterature (Chair) at Grenoble University. Jakob's teaching and research focus on landscape theory, aesthetics, the history of vertigo, contemporary theories of perception and the poetics of architecture. He is the founder and head of COMPAR(A)ISON, an International Journal of Comparative Literature and the chief editor of “di monte in monte”, a series of books on mountain culture (Edizioni Tarara’, Verbania). He produced several documentary films for TV and has a longstanding experience as a radio journalist.
Michael Jakob published recently: 100 Paysages, Infolio, Gollion 2011; asp Architecture du paysage, Infolio, Gollion 2012; Mirei Shigemori e il nuovo linguaggio del giardino giapponese, Tarara’, Verbania 2012; the swiss touch in landscape architecture, Tarara’, Verbania 2013/ Ifengspace, Tianjing 2015; La poétique du banc, Macula, Paris 2014/ Sulla Panchina, Einaudi, Turin 2014/ The Bench in the Garden, Oro Editions, Bay Area 2017; Cette ville qui nous regarde, b2 éditions, Paris 2015/ Dall’alto della città, Lettera 22, Siracusa 2017.
Jakob is a curator of international exhibitions and the author of documentary films on landscape (Chiappetti o il paradiso perduto, RAI, 2014, and Capri: a lezione di paesaggio, 2016).

[@deanphilipsaunders775]

As a landscape designer, I found it refreshing to hear the importance of the humanistic element in design and the vital cognitive sense it plays in a successful project. The landscape is like a book that unfolds itself the more you delve into it. This is when we fashion our own imaginative impression into the story we see in front of us. It is indeed a discipline that brings much joy and fulfillment.

[@stephaniealva8025]

Thank you for posting this! Trying to expand my understanding of landscape history and theory. Love this.

[@MikeF66]

One of the best talks I have heard, wow doesn't it make you think.

[@MrOliverwoods]

Dubai-azation. Love it

[@williamvaughan5624]

Shocking how few people are sitting in on this lecture.

[@riccardoorsini8886]

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[@DialecticDeveloper]

Snooze. Unfortunately this sounds more like a physics lecture, at least starts that way. Too bad landscape architecture is overrun with academic elites these days.