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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.

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.

Serious Fun

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781954081017
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Serious Fun written by Marc Treib and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost thirty years Claude Cormier et Associés has designed landscapes daring in scope while earnest in execution, courting controversy while inviting public accord. Produced under the leadership of Claude Cormier, the range of these projects has spanned the creation of parks and squares, the renovation of historical landscapes, and the conversion of industrial sites. While always serious in the address of function, their designs often display a touch of humor in both method and form--in all, these are works marked by "serious fun." It is a practice unique in Canada, arguably in the world. That people use, and may even love, these urban landscapes testifies to the pleasure afforded by their designs and the humanistic dimensions of the practice. This, the first book exclusively dedicated to the landscapes of Claude Cormier and his team, provides a broad overview of their ideas and methods with insightful discussions of selected projects and the thinking behind them.

The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781954081154
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design written by Marc Treib and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planting design is, rather obviously, a complex topic, spanning as it does art, science, social need, and morality--especially during these days of increasing planetary environmental threat. Although certainly not denying the importance of scientifically appropriate practices, the symposium "The Aesthetics of [Contemporary] Planting Design" addressed planting design today, proposing a renewed concern for the cultural and aesthetic aspects of the landscapes that result. This book, which has been developed from the original presentations at the symposium, presents the thoughts of a select international group of landscape architects and historians who discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work as well as the work of others, both contemporary and historical. They suggest that, as in real estate, the most important factor in selecting plants is "location, location, location." Certainly the Californian situation is far more forgiving than the aridity and other restrictive environmental conditions endemic to the Sonoran desert, or the frost and short growing seasons of Nordic lands that direct Scandinavian landscape architects to rely on native birches, pines, rowan, and moss. Most of us would agree that there are plants sensible for each climatic zone. Addressing environmental conditions is but the first step in the equation, however. There are also the issues of combination and composition.

Landscapes in History

Author : Philip Pregill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471293286
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes in History written by Philip Pregill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-01-25 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dies ist ein umfassendes Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte der Landschaftsarchitektur in Europa, Amerika und Asien, und zwar von ihren Ursprüngen bis hin zur Gegenwart. Diese 2. Auflage bietet mehr als nur einen aktualisierten Überblick: Sie behandelt ausführlich kulturelle, soziale, politische, technologische und philosophische Aspekte, die die Geschichte des Landschaftsbaus beeinflussen und untersucht darüber hinaus die Auswirkungen menschlicher Aktivitäten auf die Umwelt. Am Ende jedes Kapitels gibt es eine Zusammenfassung und Literaturhinweise. Neu hinzugekommen sind spezielle Kapitel zum asiatischen Landschaftsbau, zur modernen Planung und zu Pflanzmethoden. Eine idealer Einführungstext für Studenten der Landschaftsarchitektur und verwandter Disziplinen und unentbehrliches Nachschlagewerk für Experten. (y12/98)

The Shape of Land

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781957183244
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Land written by Marc Treib and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shape of the Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture--the first book to center on this subject--presents the contributions of thirteen well-known practitioners and academics who discuss the forms and ramifications of reconfiguring terrain. The essays range in content from pre-industrial precedents in the work of Humphry Repton to new digital topographic modeling systems without the use of contour lines, the treatment of waste products to the land art of the American Southwest. Practicing landscape architects focusing on the modeling of topography in the works considering both utility and aesthetics. In all, the book reviews the history, reasons, and results of at least three centuries of topographic interventions, while suggesting pathways into the future--as new technology and new necessities increase the functional demands placed upon landscape architects, while at the same time potentially offering new forms of artistic expression.

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.

Modern Landscape Architecture

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262700511
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Modern Landscape Architecture written by Marc Treib and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994-07-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two essays that provide a 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 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. Dorothée Imbert takes up Pierre-Emile Legrain and French modernist gardens of the 1920s, and Thorbjörn Andersson reviews experiments with stylized naturalism developed by Erik Glemme and others in the Stockholm park system.

The Planthunter

Author : Georgina Reid
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604699647
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Planthunter written by Georgina Reid and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and refreshing call to arms, The Planthunter is a new generation of gardening book for a new generation of gardener that encourages readers to fall in love with the natural world by falling in love with plants.

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.

Garrett Eckbo

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520246829
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Garrett Eckbo written by Marc Treib and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated consideration of the life and career of modernist landscape architect Garrett Eckbo.

Modern Landscape Architecture

Author : Jory Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Modern Landscape Architecture written by Jory Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners

Author : Carol Grove
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354813
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners written by Carol Grove and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sidney J. Hare (1860-1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888-1960) launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture and planning practice in the Midwest. Over time, their work became increasingly far-ranging, in both its geographical scope and its project types. Between 1924 and 1955, Hare & Hare commissions included fifty-four cemeteries in fifteen states; numerous city and state parks (seventeen in Missouri alone); more than fifteen subdivisions in Salt Lake City; the Denver neighborhood of Belcaro Park; the picturesque grounds of the Christian Science Sanatorium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; and the University of Texas at Austin among fifty-one college and university campuses. In Hare & Hare: Landscape Architects and City Planners Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein document the extraordinary achievements of this little-known firm and weave them into a narrative that spans from the birth of the late nineteenth-century "modern cemetery movement" to midcentury modernism. Through the figures of Sidney, a "homespun" amateur geologist who built a rustic family retreat called Harecliff, and his son Herbert, an urbane Harvard-trained landscape architect who traveled Europe and lived in a modern apartment building, Grove and Millstein chronicle the growth of the field from its amorphous Victorian beginnings to its coalescence as a profession during the first half of the twentieth century. Hare & Hare provides a unique and valuable parallel to studies of prominent East and West Coast landscape architecture firms--one that expands the reader's understanding of the history of American landscape architecture practice.

The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812236231
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 written by Marc Treib and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 provides a groundbreaking collection of worldwide perspectives on a vital and underappreciated era of landscape architecture. It is also the first critical assessment of this period, with information and insight previously unavailable to English-language readers.

Landscapes of Modern Architecture

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300208412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Modern Architecture written by Marc Treib and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of five prominent architects Modern architects are often condemned for a seeming disregard of site considerations such as climate, topography, and existing vegetation. Noted landscape and architectural historian Marc Treib counters this prevailing view in an authoritative and unprecedented survey of 20th-century buildings and their landscapes. Exploring a range of architectural, philosophical, and theoretical approaches, Treib investigates the site strategies of five prominent modern-period architects: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), Richard Neutra (1892-1970), Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), and Luis Barragán (1902-1988). The character of the sites on which these architects worked dramatically affected their architecture and gardens, a fact illustrated by Wright's "organic" regard of the desert; Mies's evolving divorce of building from terrain; Neutra's transformation of the "realities" of the site; Aalto's use of the forest metaphor and interior landscapes; and Barragán's architectonic conversion of the land. Fully illustrated with rarely published archival drawings and plans, accompanied by the author's own exceptional photographs, this book presents the spectrum of architectural responses to the constraints of site, climate, client, program, building material, region, and nation. Taken as a group, the work of these five architects sheds important light on the consideration and influence of the site and landscape on the practice of architecture during the 20th century.

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.

Ken Smith Landscape Architects Urban Projects

Author : Ken Smith
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985107
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Ken Smith Landscape Architects Urban Projects written by Ken Smith and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Smith is unquestionably one of the most interesting voices in landscape architecture; his works reflect the intensity and energy of their surroundings and challenge the distinction between landscape and art form. Ken Smith Landscape Architects/Urban Projects focuses on three prominent works in New York City: his East River Project; his work for P.S. 19; and his MoMA rooftop garden. Through Smith's colorful, playful drawings and photographs, the book reveals how each project explores new expressions of landscape design in the city. Ken Smith Landscape Architects/Urban Projects is part of the Source Books in Landscape Architecture series sponsored by Ohio State University. These books present sketches, drawings, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs. Each book focuses on a recent, important work or works at a level of detail that allows thorough study of the project from its conception to the completion of design and construction.