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Author : John F. Ahern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Landscape Architecture of Boston written by John F. Ahern and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Carlson Schrock
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Architectural Records in Boston written by Nancy Carlson Schrock and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1983 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Landscape Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kimberly Duffy Turner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393706249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Botany for Designers written by Kimberly Duffy Turner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Botany 101 for professionals who want a summary of planting design fundamentals. Plants are among the most important materials for effective landscape design. Yet the fundamentals of plant biology and growth; their morphology, color, and functional assets; and details such as planting, pruning techniques, and maintenance practices are surprisingly absent from our education and training, which tend to focus on other core principles like drainage, grading, and spatial relationships. What do you need to know about how plants grow and function? How can you determine appropriate plants for a particular site? How can you use their distinct design features effectively? What are the real design considerations to keep in mind? This book—a Botany 101 course for professionals and students alike—walks you through all the answers, equipping you with the ability to be not just an informed landscape designer but also an effective planting designer. Kimberly Duffy Turner, a landscape architect and horticulturalist, explains the essentials of planting design, exploring form and function and showing how various characteristics of plants and trees—shape, pigment, leaf veination, texture, fragrance, sound, height, and more—can be used to achieve effective site-appropriate designs. Specifying appropriate plant material and examining stock at the nursery—drawing up a planting schedule of the species or cultivar, sizes, and quantities—and evaluating modes of transplantation (when to ask for bare root, balled and burlapped, or containerized) are other key “on-the-job” concepts covered. A chapter on green design outlines some of the sustainable trends in botany: the role of LEED certification in landscape design; mitigating environmental problems with plants and open space; the emergence of green roofs and vertical gardens; biomimicry; and sensitive material selection, like composite wood products and plant-derived, soy-based paints. Both a handy appendix of common Latin and Greek terms used in horticulture and a comprehensive list of plant palettes are included. With more than 150 color photographs and schematic drawings illustrating key strategies, Botany for Designers is the professional’s go-to guide, showing you how an appreciation of plant fundamentals can lead to more inspired, well-designed landscapes.
Author : Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558495272
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Lost Boston written by Jane Holtz Kay and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a fascinating narrative and a visual delight, Lost Boston brings the city's past to life. This updated edition includes a new section illustrating the latest gains and losses in the struggle to preserve Boston 's architectural heritage. With an engaging text and more than 350 seldom-seen photographs and prints, Lost Boston offers a chance to see the city as it once was, revealing architectural gems lost long ago. An eminently readable history of the city's physical development, the book also makes an eloquent appeal for its preservation. Jane Holtz Kay traces the evolution of Boston from the barren, swampy peninsula of colonial times to the booming metropolis of today. In the process, she creates a family album for the city, infusing the text with the flavor and energy that makes Boston distinct. Amid the grand landmarks she finds the telling details of city life: the neon signs, bygone amusement parks, storefronts, and windows plastered with images of campaigning politicians-sights common in their time but even more meaningful in their absence today. Kay also brings to life the people who created Boston-architects like Charles Bulfinch and H. H. Richardson, landscape architect and master park-maker Frederick Law Olmsted, and such colorful political figures as Mayors John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley. The new epilogue brings Boston's story to the end of the twentieth century, showing elements of the city's architecture that were lost in recent years as well as those that were saved and others threatened as the city continues to evolve.
Author : Donlyn Lyndon
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The City Observed, Boston written by Donlyn Lyndon and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1982 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harvard University. School of Landscape Architecture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Exceptional Opportunities for Field Study: Examples of Landscape Design in the Vicinity of Boston written by Harvard University. School of Landscape Architecture and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin S. Karson
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558494138
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect written by Robin S. Karson and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 60 years, Fletcher Steele practised landscape architecture as a fine art, designing nearly 700 gardens. Often brilliant, always original, Steele's work is considered by many as a link between 19th century beaux arts formalism & modern landscape design.
Author : Charles William Eliot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect written by Charles William Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ted Clarke
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764351129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Building Boston written by Ted Clarke and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an expertly guided tour of Boston's historic landmarks and epic past. Follow the history of the Boston Marathon and the architectural gems that grace the Copley Square/Back Bay area where the race ends. Take a deep dive into the subway dig. Learn how fabled landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted figured out how to put a salt marsh inside the city to prevent flooding, paving the way for today's green ribbon of parks. Interwoven with anecdotes about landmarks such as the Boston Common, the Boston Red Sox Fenway Park, and the Esplanade are observations about the character of a city that took the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in stride. Perfect for both armchair reading and for use as a unique visitors' guide.
Author : James C. O'Connell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262545861
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Hub's Metropolis written by James C. O'Connell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and “smart growth.” Boston's metropolitan landscape has been two hundred years in the making. From its proto-suburban village centers of 1800 to its far-flung, automobile-centric exurbs of today, Boston has been a national pacesetter for suburbanization. In The Hub's Metropolis, James O'Connell charts the evolution of Boston's suburban development. The city of Boston is compact and consolidated—famously, “the Hub.” Greater Boston, however, stretches over 1,736 square miles and ranks as the world's sixth largest metropolitan area. Boston suburbs began to develop after 1820, when wealthy city dwellers built country estates that were just a short carriage ride away from their homes in the city. Then, as transportation became more efficient and affordable, the map of the suburbs expanded. The Metropolitan Park Commission's park-and-parkway system, developed in the 1890s, created a template for suburbanization that represents the country's first example of regional planning. O'Connell identifies nine layers of Boston's suburban development, each of which has left its imprint on the landscape: traditional villages; country retreats; railroad suburbs; streetcar suburbs (the first electric streetcar boulevard, Beacon Street in Brookline, was designed by Frederic Law Olmsted); parkway suburbs, which emphasized public greenspace but also encouraged commuting by automobile; mill towns, with housing for workers; upscale and middle-class suburbs accessible by outer-belt highways like Route 128; exurban, McMansion-dotted sprawl; and smart growth. Still a pacesetter, Greater Boston has pioneered antisprawl initiatives that encourage compact, mixed-use development in existing neighborhoods near railroad and transit stations. O'Connell reminds us that these nine layers of suburban infrastructure are still woven into the fabric of the metropolis. Each chapter suggests sites to visit, from Waltham country estates to Cambridge triple-deckers.
Author : Catherine B. Wiersema
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692522370
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Thriving Landscape Designer written by Catherine B. Wiersema and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hands-on book discusses all the elements of Catherine Wiersema's top rated, semester-long, professional practice course for landscape designers, taught at Radcliffe/Harvard's Landscape Institute and the Boston Architectural Center over the past 15 years. Richly illustrated with lessons learned and war stories from her own and others' practical experiences, the book is a step-by-step guide to building a profitable, client-focused business. Both early-career and advanced landscape designers and landscape architects will find much of value to help them target the best clients, promote and price their services, and above all, manage the multiple phases of happy client relationships.
Author : Norman T. Newton
Publisher : La Editorial, UPR
ISBN 13 : 9780674198708
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Design on the Land written by Norman T. Newton and published by La Editorial, UPR. This book was released on 1971 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Author : Boston Society of Landscape Architects
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Studies in Landscape Architecture written by Boston Society of Landscape Architects and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Southworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The A.I.A. Guide to Boston written by Michael Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of its kind in this continent - TIME Magazine. 'Anecdotes expand on purely architectural considerations to lend a lively air to the sights' - ALA Booklist
Author : Mark Pasnik
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934242
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Heroic written by Mark Pasnik and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often problematically labeled as “Brutalist” architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world’s most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. As a worldwide phenomenon, building with concrete represents one of the major architectural movements of the postwar years, but in Boston it was deployed in more numerous and diverse civic, cultural, and academic projects than in any other major U.S. city. After decades of stagnation and corrupt leadership, public investment in Boston in the 1960s catalyzed enormous growth, resulting in a generation of bold buildings that shared a vocabulary of concrete modernism. The period from the 1960 arrival of Edward J. Logue as the powerful and often controversial director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to the reopening of Quincy Market in 1976 saw Boston as an urban laboratory for the exploration of concrete’s structural and sculptural qualities. What emerged was a vision for the city’s widespread revitalization often referred to as the “New Boston.” Today, when concrete buildings across the nation are in danger of insensitive renovation or demolition, Heroic presents the concrete structures that defined Boston during this remarkable period—from the well-known (Boston City Hall, New England Aquarium, and cornerstones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) to the already lost (Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty’s concrete Lincoln House and Studio; Sert, Jackson & Associates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School)—with hundreds of images; essays by architectural historians Joan Ockman, Lizabeth Cohen, Keith N. Morgan, and Douglass Shand-Tucci; and interviews with a number of the architects themselves. The product of 8 years of research and advocacy, Heroic surveys the intentions and aspirations of this period and considers anew its legacies—both troubled and inspired.
Author : Kelleann Foster
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470640014
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Becoming a Landscape Architect written by Kelleann Foster and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore exciting options for a career in landscape architecture Blending aesthetics and environmental consciousness, landscape architecture is one of the fastest growing fields, according to the US Department of Labor. Becoming a Landscape Architect gives you a comprehensive survey of the field as it is practiced today, and explains how to get started and how to succeed in this exciting, creative, and in-demand profession. Featuring more than thirty-five interviews with leading landscape architects and more than 250 illustrations, the guide covers everything an aspiring landscape architect needs to know- from education and training, design specialties, and work settings to preparing an effective portfolio and finding a job in residential, ecological, commercial, and parks design. Complete guide to the profession of landscape architecture, one of today's fastest growing fields More than thirty-five interviews with leading landscape designers and educators give you an idea of what it's really like to work as a landscape architect Over 250 striking illustrations and a lively interior make the book visually appealing as well as informative Explains different educational paths and their prerequisites and requirements Author Kelleann Foster is Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head, Department of Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University and Managing Partner, Visual Interactive Communications Group
