Malene Hauxner
Encyclopedia
Malene Hauxner is a landscape architect, author and educator and currently professor of Theory, Method and History at KVL, Denmark
. Hauxner has enjoyed a reputation as an unrivalled analyst of landscape architecture
in the context of the breakthrough and subsequent transformations of modernism
. Her first book Fantasiens Have was published in 1993 considers the early modernist breakthrough from the 1930s while her book Open to the Sky (in Danish as Med himlen som loft) published in 2000 took modernism through its second breakthrough between 1950 and 1970. A third volume is anticipated covering the period 1970 to the 1990s.
Since 2005, Hauxner has been the driving force behind the symposia, World in Denmark which brings together academics and practitioners of international standing in fields related to landscape architecture.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. Hauxner has enjoyed a reputation as an unrivalled analyst of landscape architecture
Landscape architecture
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions...
in the context of the breakthrough and subsequent transformations of modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
. Her first book Fantasiens Have was published in 1993 considers the early modernist breakthrough from the 1930s while her book Open to the Sky (in Danish as Med himlen som loft) published in 2000 took modernism through its second breakthrough between 1950 and 1970. A third volume is anticipated covering the period 1970 to the 1990s.
Since 2005, Hauxner has been the driving force behind the symposia, World in Denmark which brings together academics and practitioners of international standing in fields related to landscape architecture.