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Recovering Landscape

Author : James Corner
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981796
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Recovering Landscape written by James Corner and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape. While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, it also implies renewal, invention, and transformation. Recovering Landscape collects a number of essays that discuss why landscape is gaining increased attention today, and what new possibilities might emerge from this situation. Themes such as reclamation, urbanism, infrastructure, geometry, representation, and temporality are explored in discussions drawn from recent developments not only in the United States but also in the Netherlands, France, India, and Southeast Asia. The contributors to this collection, all leading figures in the field of landscape architecture, include Alan Balfour, Denis Cosgrove, Georges Descombes, Christophe Girot, Steen Hoyer, David Leatherbarrow, Bart Lootsma, Sebastien Marot, Anuradha Mathur, Marc Treib, and Alex Wall.

Modern Landscape Architecture

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262200929
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Modern Landscape Architecture written by Marc Treib and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twenty-two essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline. During the 1930s Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, and JamesRose began to integrate modernist architectural ideas into their work and to design a landscape more in accord with the life and sensibilities of their time. Together with Thomas Church, whose gardens provided the setting for California living, they laid the foundations for a modern American landscape design. This first critical assessment of modem landscape architecture brings together seminal articles from the 1930s and 1940s by Eckbo, Kiley, Rose, Fletcher Steele, and Christopher Tunnard, and includes contributions by contemporary writers and designers such as Peirce Lewis, Catherine Howett, John Dixon Hunt, Peter Walker, and Martha Schwartz who examine the historical and cultural framework within which modern landscape designers have worked. There are also essays by Lance Neckar, Reuben Rainey, Gregg Bleam, Michael Laurie, and Marc Treib that discuss the designs and legacy of the Americans Tunnard, Eckbo, Church, Kiley, and Robert Irwin. Dorothee Imbert takes up Pierre-Emile Legrain and French modernist gardens of the 1920s, and Thorbjorn Andersson reviews experiments with stylized naturalism developed by Erik Glemme and others in the Stockholm park system.

Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture

Author : Virginia McLeod
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780670232
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture written by Virginia McLeod and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed landscape architects, this book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs. Each project is presented with color photographs, site plans and sections as well as numerous consistently styled construction details. Intended for architects, engineers and landscape architects, the book will also be invaluable for architecture, garden and landscape design students, for whom it will be a resource not only for understanding the work of the best contemporary landscape architects, but also as a tool for their own design work.

Contemporary Trends in Landscape Architecture

Author : Steven L. Cantor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471287919
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Trends in Landscape Architecture written by Steven L. Cantor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-11-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases new trends in the vital and changing field of landscape design. Important contemporary concerns affecting the landscape professional are considered: the impact of recent scientific research, historic preservation, populations with unique needs, international practices, and much more.

Thinking the Contemporary Landscape

Author : Christophe Girot
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616895594
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Thinking the Contemporary Landscape written by Christophe Girot and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of our groundbreaking books in landscape architecture, James Corner's Recovering Landscape and Charles Waldheim's Landscape Urbanism Reader, comes another essential reader, . Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture, the seventeen essayists in argue for an all-encompassing view of landscape that integrates the scientific, intellectual, aesthetic, and mythic into a new multidisciplinary understanding of the contemporary landscape. A must-read for anyone concerned about the changing nature of our landscape in a time of climate crisis.

Groundswell

Author : Peter Reed
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9780870703799
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Groundswell written by Peter Reed and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay by Peter Reed.

Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture

Author : Bradley Cantrell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118933087
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture written by Bradley Cantrell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combine traditional techniques with modern media for morecommunicative renderings Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: ContemporaryTechniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design,Second Edition bridges the gap between traditional analog andnew digital tools by applying timeless concepts of representationto enhance design work in digital media. The book explores specifictechniques for creating landscape designs, including digitallyrendered plans, perspectives, and diagrams, and the updated secondedition offers expanded coverage of newer concepts and techniques.Readers will gain insight into the roles of different drawings,with a clear emphasis on presenting a solid understanding of howdiagram, plan, section, elevation, and perspective work together topresent a comprehensive design approach. Digital rendering is faster, more efficient, and more flexiblethan traditional rendering techniques, but the design principlesand elements involved are still grounded in hand-renderingtechniques. Digital Drawing for Landscape Architectureexploits both modalities to help designers create more beautiful,accurate, and communicative drawings in a professional studioenvironment. This second edition contains revised information onplan rendering techniques, camera matching workflow, and colorselection, along with brand new features, like: Time-based imagery and tools Workflow integration techniques Photoshop and Illustrator task automation Over 400 updated images, plus over 50 new examples ofaward-winning work The book takes a tutorial-based approach to digital rendering,allowing readers to start practicing immediately and get up tospeed quickly. Communication is a vital, but often overlookedcomponent of the design process, and designers rely upon theirdrawings to translate concepts from idea to plan. DigitalDrawing for Landscape Architecture provides the guidancelandscape designers need to create their most communicativerenderings yet.

Historical Ground

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415814126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Historical Ground written by John Dixon Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Ground is dedicated to understanding how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays historical events and narrative.

Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781943532780
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East written by Marc Treib and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex story of modern landscape architecture remains to be written, as does its precise definition. Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East, written by one of the field's most prolific and insightful authors, provides a rare cross-cultural study that examines the written and design contributions made by two of the movement's most influential early protagonists: Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979) in England--and later the United States, and Sutemi Horiguchi (1896-1984) in Japan. Tunnard's pioneering manifesto, Gardens in the Modern Landscape, first published in 1938, laid out the thinking and provided the direction for a landscape architecture engaged more strongly with contemporary life, adopting ideas from modern art as well as the historical gardens of Japan. Rather than a book, it was the architect Horiguchi's 1934 essay "The Garden of Autumn Grasses" that initiated a new direction for garden making in Japan, with a considered and artful use of seasonal plants and a stronger connection to the modern architecture it accompanied. Unlike Tunnard, who sought inspiration and sources in contemporary art, Horiguchi looked to the eighteen-century Rimpa School of painting for insights into the composition of the new garden by carefully placing individual plants against a simple background. Although the two theorists-practitioners never met, Tunnard's interest in Japan, and use of Horiguchi's work as illustrations, links them in a shared quest for a landscape architecture appropriate to their times and respective countries. Lavishly illustrated with 150 historical and contemporary photos and drawings, Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East: Christopher Tunnard and Sutemi Horiguchi offers the first compressive study into their thinking, landscape designs, and consequent influence on landscape architecture in the years that followed.

Waterstained Landscapes

Author : Joan Woodward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Waterstained Landscapes written by Joan Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Combining elements of a journal, sketchbook, notebook, and textbook, Waterstained Landscapes focuses on the Denver region and the dry West, Protagonist Crane learns that tracing the "waterstain" - water concentration and accompanying plant responses - is like reading the braille of western landscapes, a hidden text that reveals information about natural processes and human values. The book describes the regional processes that shape these plant patterns, and goes on to explore how natural and cultural mechanisms change and affect designed and undesigned landscapes over time. Woodward takes special note of the evolution of landscape design eras, following the fate of one house as its garden changes under the influence of different styles and various owners' tastes."--BOOK JACKET.

Designing America's Waste Landscapes

Author : Mira Engler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801878039
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Designing America's Waste Landscapes written by Mira Engler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

New Conversations With an Old Landscape

Author : Catherin Jane Bull
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781876907655
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book New Conversations With an Old Landscape written by Catherin Jane Bull and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the work of landscape architects in Australia since the 1960s. It describes how landscape architects are, as contemporary Australians, listening more closely to the language of the landscape and how they are designing new landscapes in

The Artificial Landscape

Author : Anne Hoogewoning
Publisher : NAI Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789056621667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Artificial Landscape written by Anne Hoogewoning and published by NAI Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture and architectural culture of the Netherlands have been causing quite a stir in recent years: a great many remarkable new buildings and projects testify to the current flowering in Dutch architecture, urban planning, and landscaping that's so exciting to so many in and out of the field. Artificial Landscape illustrates the results of this late twentieth century surge of creativity and traces the background of its success, examining both the 'Dutch phenomenon' and its socio-historical context to find out what makes it work so well. What we find is that even in a period of globalization there is still such a thing as a Dutch 'climate, ' yet despite this culture's specific national character we have much to learn from it, particularly where its unique synthesis of architecture, urbanism, and landscaping is concerned. This exciting movement is represented by a selection of designs, built works, ideas, plans and manifestoes from such architects and firms as OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Neutelings Riedijk, MVRDV, Maunce Nio, and Max 1, to name only a few. Apart from recording the state of things in Dutch architecture, Artificial Landscape also serves as a survey of contemporary architectural criticism, collecting the most important critiques of Dutch architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture to have appeared in recent years.

Thinking about Landscape Architecture

Author : Bruce Sharky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317538404
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Landscape Architecture written by Bruce Sharky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is landscape architecture? Is it gardening, or science, or art? In this book, Bruce Sharky provides a complete overview of the discipline to provide those that are new to the subject with the foundations for future study and practice. The many varieties of landscape practice are discussed with an emphasis on the significant contributions that landscape architects have made across the world in daily practice. Written by a leading scholar and practitioner, this book outlines the subject and explores how, from a basis in garden design, it 'leapt over the garden wall' to encapsulate areas such as urban and park design, community and regional planning, habitat restoration, green infrastructure and sustainable design, and site engineering and implementation. Coverage includes: The effects that natural and human factors have upon design, and how the discipline is uniquely placed to address these challenges Examples of contemporary landscape architecture work - from storm water management and walkable cities to well-known projects like the New York High Line and the London Olympic Park Exploration of how art and design, science, horticulture, and construction come together in one subject Thinking about Landscape Architecture is perfect for those wanting to better understand this fascinating subject, and those starting out as landscape architecture students.

When Modern Was Green

Author : David Haney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415561388
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book When Modern Was Green written by David Haney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Leberecht Migge (modernist landscape architect) as a base, Haney creates a comprehensive history of German ecological design. Linking with modern ideas of "green" design, this is a unique look at how one man changed the way planning could unite house and garden.

Groundwork

Author : Diana Balmori
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933130
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Groundwork written by Diana Balmori and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current environmental crisis calls for a unified practice of landscape and architecture that would allow buildings and landscapes to perform symbiotically to heal the environment. Over the past ten years, a diverse group of architects, landscape architects, and artists have undertaken groundbreaking projects that propose an integration of landscape and architecture, dissolving traditional distinctions between building and environment. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture examines twenty-five projects, on an international scale, that consider landscape and architecture as true reciprocal entities. Groundwork divides the projects into three design directions: Topography, Ecology, and Biocomputation. Topographic designers create projects that manipulate the ground to merge building and landscape as in Cairo Expo City in Egypt (Zaha Hadid Architects), Island City Central Park Grin Grin in Fukuoka, Japan (Toyo Ito & Associates) and the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Eisenman Architects). Ecologic designers develop environments that address issues such as energy climate and remediation, such as I’m Lost In Paris in France (R&Sie(n)), Turistroute in Eggum, Norway (Snøhetta) and Parque Atlántico in Santander, Cantabria, Spain (Batlle i Roig Arquitectes). Biocomputation designers use digital technologies to align biology and design in projects such as the Grotto Concept (Aranda/Lasch), North Side Copse House in West Sussex, England (EcoLogicStudio) and Local Code: Real Estates (Nicolas de Monchaux.) What these projects all have in common is a desire to pay attention and homage to the liminal space where indoors and outdoors meet. The critical connection between natural and synthetic, exterior and interior space, paves the way toward a more inclusive—and indeed more alive—conceptualization of the physical world.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

Author : Susan Herrington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813935369
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Cornelia Hahn Oberlander written by Susan Herrington and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Her work has been instrumental in the development of the late-twentieth-century design ethic, and her early years working with architectural luminaries such as Louis Kahn and Dan Kiley prepared her to bring a truly modern—and audaciously abstract—sensibility to the landscape design tradition. In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer the first biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the few women to graduate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has practiced socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning for public landscapes, including the 1970s design of the Robson Square landscape and its adjoining Provincial Law Courts—one of Vancouver’s most famous spaces. Herrington places Oberlander within a larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her personal and professional trajectory and her work in New York, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal. Oberlander is a progenitor of some of the most significant currents informing landscape architecture today, particularly in the area of ecological focus. In her thorough biography, Herrington draws much-deserved attention to one of the truly important figures in landscape architecture.