{"id":126495,"date":"2025-10-18T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/?p=126495"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:55:43","slug":"book-tips-robin-winogrond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/book-tips-robin-winogrond\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Tips \u2014 Robin Winogrond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We asked <a href=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/landscape-architects\/robin-winogrond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robin Winogrond<\/a> to share which publications she has been reading lately and finds particularly relevant for landscape architects today. Here is her selection:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Are We Human?<\/h2>\n<p><em>Notes on an Archaeology of Design<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-126495 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"714\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-1270x714.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-1270x714.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-1270x714.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-1270x714.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-Colomina-Wigley.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Under such premises as \u201cto talk about design is to talk about the state of our species\u201d and \u201cwe live in a time when everything is designed,\u201d Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley invite us to reconsider the foundations of design itself. They step back from our habitual registers of perception and questions to elucidate the genealogy and intimate relationship between humans and the world of \u201cmodern design\u201d and \u201cgood taste\u201d we consider a necessity. Avoiding any sense of arrogance, they pose questions so simple and basic that we might have carried them around ourselves for years yet never considered asking them. And yet the connections made between human life and design are profound, breathtaking (unsettling?), and humorous\u2014revealing the deeper layers of our daily life and the \u201cwhy,\u201d and the \u201cwhat if \u2026,\u201d but explicitly, as well, the \u201cWhat if NOT.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-126495 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"714\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-1270x714.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-1270x714.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-1270x714.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-1270x714.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/are-we-human-notes-on-an-archeology-of-design-6-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"1367\">Among the book\u2019s wealth of provocations and syntheses are reflections such as Walter Benjamin\u2019s <em data-start=\"1046\" data-end=\"1069\">Poverty of Experience<\/em>, \u201cGood Design\u201d Is an Anesthetic, Design in 2 Seconds, and The Frictionless Silhouette. The book helps to give us agency for critical reflection about the designs surrounding us, using curiosity and richness of experience rather than slickness as a measure of a world that can stimulate our senses.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"1367\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lars-mueller-publishers.com\/are-we-human\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colomina, Beatriz, and Mark Wigley. Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design. Z\u00fcrich: Lars M\u00fcller Publishers, 2016.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"1367\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The Emotional Power of Space<\/h2>\n<p><em>Ila B\u00eaka and Louise Lemoine<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-126495 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-3\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"714\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-1270x714.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-1270x714.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-1270x714.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-1270x714.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Emotional-Power-of-Space.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cLike sound, space embraces us, immerses us\u2026 It guides and directs our paths, defines our movements\u2026 But how does space affect what we feel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The authors, originally from the discipline of film, delve into space as a multi-sensorial experience. In poetic and personal detail, twelve architects reflect upon the immaterial questions of how we experience and relate to space. The reader slips into a wide array of anecdotes, personal perceptions, and analyses of the slippery, intuitive, and irrational nature of emotional space and emotional memory, which form a basis for architectural thought and for designing spaces of all kinds.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-4' class='gallery galleryid-126495 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"800\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-541x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-541x800.jpg 541w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-1038x1536.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1.jpg 1352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-541x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium lazyload\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-541x800.jpg 541w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1-1038x1536.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-1.jpg 1352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"800\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-541x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-541x800.jpg 541w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-1038x1536.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2.jpg 1352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-541x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium lazyload\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-541x800.jpg 541w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2-1038x1536.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-2.jpg 1352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"800\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-541x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-541x800.jpg 541w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-1038x1536.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3.jpg 1352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-541x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium lazyload\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-541x800.jpg 541w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3-1038x1536.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_Emotional_Power_of_Space_Book-3.jpg 1352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Among the many interviews, in <em>The World Beyond What You Perceive<\/em>, Junya Ishigami says, \u201cMore than about space, my strongest memories are related to a landscape or scenery.\u201d Anne Holtrop\u2019s interview, titled <em>The Attractive Essence of the Unknown<\/em>, speaks of the balance between knowing and not knowing, the unknown becoming a driving force behind his design process, one that triggers imagination. Tatiana Bilbao learned how space needs to hold the body from the spirituality of monks while working on a monastery and feels Barrag\u00e1n was able to build his extraordinary spaces because he was a spiritual man. Bijoy Jain writes, in <em>The Space of Intuitive Thought<\/em>, \u201cOur relationship with the sky\u2026 With the advent of electricity, we experienced a caesura with the sky\u2026 being protected under a blanket of stars. For me this is architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bekalemoine.com\/the_emotional_power_of_space.php?utm_source=landezine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B\u00eaka, Ila, and Louise Lemoine. The Emotional Power of Space. B\u00eaka &amp; Partners, 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Being and Circumstance<\/h2>\n<p><em>Notes Toward a Conditional Art<\/em><br \/>Robert Irwin<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-5' class='gallery galleryid-126495 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-5\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"714\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-1270x714.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-1270x714.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-1270x714.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-1270x714.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/being-and-circumstance-robert-irwin-cover.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Last year, we lost Robert Irwin, one of the most influential artists of the last century. He taught generations how to use a phenomenological approach to reading site. In short, he brought an awareness of the value of creating public art as site-specific and \u201csite conditioned \/ determined\u201d to a new level, one in which the perceiver has a specific and individual experience of place and phenomena. Over decades, he studied how to create works based on the phenomena of a specific outdoor environment, which in turn offered a strong, new impulse in the discourse of landscape architecture.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, Irwin belonged to the Los Angeles-based group of artists known as the Light and Space artists, along with James Turrell, Dan Graham, and Larry Bell, among others. They posed questions such as what kind of art could be non-object-based and what this art would then be made of. His early explorations questioned perceptions and the lack thereof\u2014unseen phenomena in front of our eyes, such as the pillar in the center of a gallery space. He spent a year alone on an island studying his own perceptions as a basis for his artworks.<\/p>\n<p>He begins his timeless, if not pivotal, book <em>Being and Circumstance<\/em> with the statement that change makes perception possible. He asks us to drop the dichotomy between the perceiver and the thing perceived, extending the boundaries of object-based art to nonobjective or phenomenal art, which \u201crequires our immediate presence and puts individual experience at the root of our understanding.\u201d He concludes that phenomenal art is really about seeing and not-seeing.<\/p>\n<p>As difficult as it might be to access the text in its philosophical and phenomenological use of language, it sets the basis for delving into a series of projects, which he uses as testing grounds for understanding how to create installations that solely address the specific place itself. His brilliant and innovative project at Wellesley College remains one of my favorite artworks of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Circumstance-Toward-Conditional-Robert-1985-06-03\/dp\/B01FKU1OF4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irwin, Robert. Being and Circumstance: Notes Toward a Conditional Art. Santa Monica, CA: Lapis Press, 1985.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked Robin Winogrond to share which publications she has been reading lately and finds particularly relevant for landscape architects today. Here is her selection: \u00a0 Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley Under such premises as \u201cto talk about design is to talk about the state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":96016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2357,2375],"tags":[2401],"collection":[],"firm":[],"university":[],"manufacturer":[],"photographer":[],"product":[],"topics":[3237,3317],"class_list":["post-126495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-articles","category-pos2","tag-robin-winogrond","topics-books","topics-robin-winogrond"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"Book Tips \u2014 Robin Winogrond","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-11-06 09:14:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126495"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126529,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126495\/revisions\/126529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126495"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=126495"},{"taxonomy":"firm","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/firm?post=126495"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=126495"},{"taxonomy":"manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manufacturer?post=126495"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographer?post=126495"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=126495"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=126495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}