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The moving horizon: landscape scale as an urban device

The moving horizon: landscape scale as an urban device jessie marshall zarazaga I noticed that from where I stood the top of [that isolated hill] was exactly level mechanisms we use to read scale in a landscape might be able to be with the ocean horizon. That meant that a straight line drawn from my eye to the layered into new urban readings, folded into a recovery of the proble- summit of that hill would go on to graze the curve of the earths surface, like a matic scalelessness we perceive in the extended suburban territories of the tangent to a circle. Surely, I thought, I could calculate the radius of the Earth from contemporary city. this observation. 1 Through a careful analysis of Donald Judd’s site-specific works, situated in the Tim Robinson, The View From the Horizon open landscape of Marfa, Texas, I will argue that through our reading of it, the horizon itself becomes a scaling device, carrying out very specific representa- The semi-desert landscape of Southwest Texas appears to the traveller as con- tional, physical and perceptual tasks in the landscape. The horizon not only helps tinuous and undifferentiated. The land is buff-coloured with minimal variation us to structure vast territories, but does so through http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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1943-2186
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10.1080/14601176.2010.528856
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jessie marshall zarazaga I noticed that from where I stood the top of [that isolated hill] was exactly level mechanisms we use to read scale in a landscape might be able to be with the ocean horizon. That meant that a straight line drawn from my eye to the layered into new urban readings, folded into a recovery of the proble- summit of that hill would go on to graze the curve of the earths surface, like a matic scalelessness we perceive in the extended suburban territories of the tangent to a circle. Surely, I thought, I could calculate the radius of the Earth from contemporary city. this observation. 1 Through a careful analysis of Donald Judd’s site-specific works, situated in the Tim Robinson, The View From the Horizon open landscape of Marfa, Texas, I will argue that through our reading of it, the horizon itself becomes a scaling device, carrying out very specific representa- The semi-desert landscape of Southwest Texas appears to the traveller as con- tional, physical and perceptual tasks in the landscape. The horizon not only helps tinuous and undifferentiated. The land is buff-coloured with minimal variation us to structure vast territories, but does so through

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 25, 2011

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