IEA

Fellowship time: December 2009 to February 2010

Research Project:
"A History of Gardens"

Abstract:

Historically and across every sedentary cultures, the garden is defined primarily by its quality of enclosure.
If the "English" landscape garden repelled the visual field beyond the physical boundaries of the space and up to the horizon, it nevertheless remained between the limits of artistic convention: it was an illusion of unlimitedness. On the contrary, by displaying planted field indefinitely in the territory, the green spaces in shattered cities of CIAM defeats the physical limits of any enclosure, it establishes the unlimited. The long-range consequences of this de-establishing movement are irreversible. It may therefore be useful to examine recent developments in architecture and urban space throughout modern history of European garden and to identify the meaning of it in the context of land settlement in the post-industrial era.

Biographical elements:

Kazmer Kovacs is an architect practitioner and lecturer, specialist in built patrimony (surveys of historic building and vernacular architectures) and in the theory of gardens and landscapes. He submitted a thesis in 2001 entitled "Limitations of temporal monument". In collaboration with the architect Attila Zakarias, he participated in the restoration and rehabilitation of many buildings in Romania.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Timpul monumentului istoric, [Le temps des monuments historiques] Paideia, Bucarest,
2003

Collective works:

O filozofie a intervalului - In Honorem Andrei Pleşu, Humanitas, Bucarest, 2009,
Mihail Neamţu and Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban editeurs:
„Natura grădinilor sau Melancolia pitorescului"
Spaţiul public et reinserţia socială a proiectului artistic et Arhitectural -
Artă, Comunităţi urbane, Mobilizare,
[L’espace public et la réinsertion sociale du projet artistique et architectural]
Bourse CNCSIS - Consortium No23/2006,
Editura Universitară "Ion Mincu", Bucarest, 2006
Coord. A.M. Zahariade, A. Oroveanu, I.G. Panasiu : trois essais sur le paysage
Kúriák földje, [Le pays des manoirs],
Kovászna Megyei Művelődési központ, Sf. Gheorghe, 2005,
Balázs Nagy, coordonateur: "Szentkereszty kastély" et "Séra kúria"
Social Sciences and Political Change, P.I.E. - Peter Lang, Brussel, 2003,
Robin Cassling et Gabriel Fragnière, coordonateurs: „Response to James Aulich"
Un regard critique sur la réhabilitation du patrimoine architectural...,
Editura universitară Ion Mincu, Bucarest, 2003, Dan Bernfeld et Nicolae Lascu, coordonateurs: "L’église comme organisation non gouvernementale"
Measure in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Skopje, 2003, Tihomir Stojkov, editeur:
"Measuring Plečnik"
Lost in Space, New Europe College, Bucarest, 2003, Augustin Ioan, editor:
"Two-dimensional space"
Yearbook 1989-1999, New Europe College, Bucarest, 2001: "Thresholds"
Locuinţa sătească in România [L’habitation paysane en Roumanie], membru du collectif
„Covasna, Harghita, Mureş"
Institutul Central de Cercetare, Proiectare si Directivare in Construcţii,
Bucarest 1989, Cezar Niculiu, coordonateur

Translations:

„Europa urbană" article de Françoise Choay,
Titre original: „L’Europe urbaine"; in Urbanismul - serie nouă, oct. 2008, Bucarest
„Branly: mai era oare nevoie de un nou Luna Park?" article de Françoise Choay,
Titre original: „Branly: un nouveau Luna Park était-il nécessaire?"
in Secolul 21 No 1-6/2007, Bucarest
"Utopia et statutul antropologic al spaţiului construit", article de Françoise Choay,
Titre original: „L’utopie et le statut anthropologique de l’espace édifié",
in Arhitectura No 32/2005, Bucarest
"Dezastrul vine de amnezie", interviu cu Françoise Choay realizat de Lionel
Devlieger, Titre original: „Le désastre c’est l’amnésie"; in Arhitectura No 22/2004, Bucarest
Urbanismul, utopii et realităţi de Françoise Choay, Titre original: L’Urbanisme,
utopies et réalités, Le Seuil, Paris, 1965, Simetria-Paideia, Bucarest, 2002
"Despre demolare" article de Françoise Choay, in Virtualia 07, Titre original: "De la
démolition", in Métamorphoses Parisiennes, Paris, 1997, www.virtualia.org/07/demolarea
Alegoria patrimoniului de Françoise Choay, Titre original L’Allégorie du patrimoine,
Le Seuil, Paris, 1992, Simetria, Bucarest, 1998
Şapte propoziţii asupra conceptului de autenticitate de Françoise Choay,
Titre original: Sept propositions sur le concept d‘authenticité,
Simetria, Bucarest, 1998

Articles:

„Cum se face de a ajuns grădina spațiu verde
[Comment le jardin est-il devenu espace vert]", in Secolul 21 nr. 7-12/2009,
Bucharest
"To be or not to be in the landscape", in Landscape and rural heritage -
European spatial planning and landscape, No. 88, Council of Europe Publishing, Belgium, 2009.
„Perspectiva şi refugiul [La perspective et le refuge]", in Secolul 21 No
1-6/2008, Bucarest
„Romania - a Cultural Landscape", in Landscape Research Group - Sheffield
Conference on the European Landscape Convention, Bud Young & Peter Howard, éditeurs, London, 2008.
„Peisaj cu grădină şi casă [Paysage avec jardin et maison]", in Secolul 21 No
7-12/2007, Bucarest
„Trei chipuri ale metaforei în relaţie cu arhitectura [Trois aspects de la métaphore par rapport à l’architecture]", in Arhitectura No 52-53/2007, Bucarest
„Chestiunea peisajului [La question du paysage]", in Secolul 21 No 7-9/2006,
Bucarest
„A népi építészet mint túlélés [L’architecture populaire come survie]", in Országépítő
No 3/2005, Budapest
"Oraşul si «oraşul»[La ville et la «ville»]", in Secolul 21 No 11-12/2004, 1-2-3/2005,
Bucarest
"Modernitatea monumentului istoric [ Modernité du monument historique]", in
Arhitectura No 23/2004, Bucarest
"Măsura lui Plečnik [La mesure de Plečnik]", in Arhitectura No 13/2002, Bucarest
"Labirintul [Le labyrinthe]", in Arhitectura No 10/2002, Bucarest
"New York City Blues", in Arhitectura No 9/2002, Bucarest
"Arta lui Plečnik [L’art de Plečnik]", in Virtualia 07, www.virtualia.org/07/plecnik.
"Oglinda lui Narcis [Le Miroir de Narcisse]", in Arhitectura No 3-4/2001, Bucarest
"Criterii de evaluare a monumentelor istorice" in Acta, Muzeul Naţional Secuiesc,
T3, Sfintu Gheorghe, 2000
"Narkisszosz tükre [Le Miroir de Narcisse]", in Korunk, No. 5, Cluj, Mai 2000
"Evoluţia conceptului de monument [L’évolution de l’idée de monument]"" in Acta,
Muzeul Naţional Secuiesc, T3,
Sfintu Gheorghe, 1999
„Patrimoniul ca alegorie [Le patrimoine comme allégorie]", in OCTOGON No 1,
Bucarest, 1999
"A népi építészet védelme mint túlélési stratégia [La protection de l’architecture
populaire comme stratégie de survie]", in Tusnad 1999, Utilitas, Cluj, 1999
"A történeti település fogalma szemben a kortárs várossal [L’idée de localité
historique face à la ville de nos jours]", in Tusnad 1998, T3, Sfintu Gheorghe, 1998
"Reabilitarea urbană a pieţei centrale din Bistriţa [Réhabilitation de la place centrale
de Bistrita]", in Arhitectura No 3/1985, Bucarest