Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture
Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture

Author: Virginia McLeod

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2012-09-19

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781780670232

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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.

Thinking the Contemporary Landscape
Thinking the Contemporary Landscape

Author: Christophe Girot

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1616895594

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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.

Recovering Landscape
Recovering Landscape

Author: James Corner

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 1999-08

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781568981796

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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.

Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation
Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation

Author: Rebecca Krinke

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780415700696

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A collection of essays by some of the most prominent scholars and designers in the field of contemplative landscape design, examining the principles involved in the creation of contemplative spaces, particularly in the West.

Groundswell
Groundswell

Author: Peter Reed

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780870703799

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Essay by Peter Reed.

Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East
Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East

Author: Mohammad Gharipour

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1317534077

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The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums. The role of urban landscape projects in Middle Eastern cities has grown in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the private sphere to an increasingly public function. The contemporary landscape projects, either designed as public plazas or public parks, have played a significant role in transferring the modern Middle Eastern cities to a new era and also in transforming to a newly shaped social culture in which the public has a voice. This book considers what ties these projects to their historical context, and what regional and local elements and concepts have been used in their design.

Expressions of Place
Expressions of Place

Author: John R. Kemp

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781496808257

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Contemporary artists revealing the state's urban landscapes, southwestern swamps, central prairies, verdant forests, and northern fields

Landscapes for Art
Landscapes for Art

Author: Glenn Harper

Publisher: Isc Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Sculpture parks and gardens, whether woodland sanctuaries or urban retreats, sprawling sites or intimate oases, offer sculpture lovers and artists alike unique ways to experience the outdoors, sculpture, and the intersections between nature and culture. Since the mid-20th century, these venues have become important tourist destinations and essential aspects of public life in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle and regions such as Yorkshire in England and the Hudson Highlands in New York. Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks surveys a wide range of sculpture parks and gardens that focus on contemporary art--from well-established, museum-type institutions to small-scale, non-collecting, experimental programs. The book includes profiles of sculpture parks in the U.S., U.K., Japan, Australia, Lithuania, China, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Latvia, Sweden, and Finland (among others). There are articles on key topics by art critics, landscape architects, and sculpture park professionals and interviews with Isamu Noguchi, Martin Friedman, and Alfio Bonanno.

Waterstained Landscapes
Waterstained Landscapes

Author: Joan Woodward

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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"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.