Beatrix Farrand
Beatrix Farrand

Author: Judith B. Tankard

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC

Published: 2009-09-29

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Perhaps her best-known work is Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers, her gardens have been photographed at their peak for this book, and complemented by watercolor wash renderings of her designs.--From publisher description.

Public Spaces, Private Gardens
Public Spaces, Private Gardens

Author: Lake Douglas

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2011-05-17

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 080713838X

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Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documents -- many of which have never been published until now -- to explore public and private outdoor spaces in New Orleans and those who shaped them. Public Spaces, Private Gardens, an informative stroll through the last two hundred years of the designed landscapes and horticultural past of New Orleans, offers a fresh look at the cultural landscape of one of America's most interesting and historic cities.

Almost Home
Almost Home

Author: Kristine F. Miller

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780813933658

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Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- King Edward VII Sanatorium -- Phillips Memorial Cloister -- World War I cemeteries : naturalizing death -- Gézaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension -- Trouville Hospital -- Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery -- Fienvillers British Cemetery -- Corbie la Neuville British Cemetery -- Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension -- Auchonvillers Military Cemetery -- Daours Communal Cemetery Extension -- Winchester College War Memorial Cloister -- Delville Wood -- Epilogue.

Staging Urban Landscapes
Staging Urban Landscapes

Author: B. Cannon Ivers

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3035610460

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Open urban spaces are an ideal stage for public events. An important prerequisite for their design in an increasingly heterogeneous multicultural cityscape is the relationship between design, use, and social function.The book documents both temporary as well as permanent installations of various kinds – from the open-air courtyard of a museum to the design of a river bank promenade, through to a city park.

Landscapes of Exclusion
Landscapes of Exclusion

Author: William E O'Brien

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781952620355

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During the 1930s, the state park movement and the National Park Service expanded public access to scenic American places, especially during the era of the New Deal. However, under severe Jim Crow restrictions in the South, African Americans were routinely and officially denied entrance to these supposedly shared sites. Landscapes of Exclusion presents the first-ever study of segregation in southern state parks, underscoring the profound disparity that persisted for decades in the Jim Crow South.

Lifelong Landscape Design
Lifelong Landscape Design

Author: Mary Palmer Dargan

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1423620739

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Lifelong landscape design means thinking about more than your garden. It involves encouraging your community to be a well-rooted environment consisting of friends who share home-grown produce, walk in the neighborhood, recycle, water harvest, compost and are watchful of each other’s well-being. Lifelong landscape designs create environments that connect with nature, encompass a home, and promote healthy living by providing mobility, social interaction, and places to sustain the body and soul. Learn easy steps to design your own lifelong landscape through more than 200 landscape patterns and activities that illustrate components of healthy living. Enhance the quality of your life at any stage with practical advice from this inspirational landscape architect with more than 30 years experience.

The Landscape Painter's Workbook
The Landscape Painter's Workbook

Author: Mitchell Albala

Publisher: For Artists

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0760371350

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"The Landscape Painter's Workbook takes a modern approach to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting, from accomplished artist, veteran art instructor, and established author Mitchell Albala"--

Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings
Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings

Author: Rudy J. Favretti

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780761989301

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Well-illustrated chapters describe how to select the right period design for the garden, yard and grounds of a historic building, how to research and plan development, how to find and identify authentic plants, and how to maintain the landscape once it's restored. Included is the most complete list ever published of plants and flowers and the dates they came into popular use. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR