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Speakers): Jens Andermann (Birkbeck College, University of London School of Arts)

From architecture to literature and the visual arts and throughout Latin America, the landscape has been a key expression of modernity-as-crisis, unsettling earlier traditions of deploying the landscape-form in order to forge an image of pristine American nature as available to the colonial gaze and value-extraction. Instead, the twentieth-century landscape is both expression of and intervention into, the critical reconfigurations of space and place underpinning the urbanization of Latin American societies. Thus, the paper argues, the landscape of modernity both dismisses and reinvents two of the major tropings in which, ever since the Renaissance, space and place had been conceived as available to human agency and experience fundamentally through the disciplines of architecture and of art: the garden and the journey.