Elizabeth K Meyer's essay "The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture", originally published in an ecological planning context, is an important essay for landscape. The essay seeks to establish landscape as a flexible and broad context within which landscape operations are then played out. Meyer seeks to place landscape in a grey area that resists bianary pairings, such as man/nature, nature/culture, horizontal/vertical.Borrowing from Rosalind Krauss' method of using a Klein diagram (Krauss' essay is Sculpture in the Expanded Field) and positioning her title closely with Krauss', Meyer is pursuing a melange just in publication of the essay. Though she's directly referencing art history in her language, title and diagram, the essay was published in an ecological planning journal. Thus, we have another bianary dualism, ecology/art, one that is particularly relevant today in the field of landscape.
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