Olwig, Kenneth
- Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research article2011Peer reviewed
Performance, aetherial space and the practice of landscape/architecture: the case of the missing mask
Olwig, Kenneth
Abstract
How is architecture, as an evolving practice, encompassing both the landscape and the buildings within it, comprehensible in the light of contemporary theorization concerning performance, spectacle, embodiment, the everyday and materiality? The answer is sought here by examining the relationship between architecture and performance in the context of the theater contrasting the pre-Renaissance theater tradition stretching from ancient Greece to Shakespeare's Globe and the post-Renaissance tradition stretching from the architecture of Inigo Jones to that of Las Vegas. The study is grounded in the geographical literature on pictorial perspective and the conception of landscape as scenic space. Rather than focusing on the pictorial arts, however, the point of departure here is in the production of theater scenery.
Keywords
performance; aetherial space; theater; landscape; architecture; public place
Published in
Social and Cultural Geography
2011, volume: 12, number: 3, pages: 305-318
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Environmental Sciences and Nature Conservation
Landscape Architecture
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2011.564735
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/46882