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Author : Charles A. Birnbaum,Lisa E. Crowder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Horticultural writers
ISBN : UCBK:C064181081
Author : James Corner,James M. Corner,Alex S. MacLean
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300086966
Photographs and essays express "the way the American landscape has been forged by various cultures in the past and what the possibilities are for its future design."--Jacket.
Author : Sarah Bonnemaison,Christine Macy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134455386
Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award! The word 'nature' comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. Architecture and Nature presents an in-depth study of how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century.
Author : Charles A. Birnbaum,Lisa E. Crowder
Publisher : Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015031702767
Author : Keith N. Morgan
Publisher : Hood Museum of Art Darmouth College
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015031721692
A rich portrait of a major figure in American art & architecture & his role in shaping American cultural identity.
Author : Charles A. Birnbaum,Stephanie Sue Foell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Horticulturists
ISBN : UCSD:31822037461761
A generous selection of illustrations, together with a list of surviving landscape sites accessible to the public, brings both the subjects and their art to life.
Author : Robin S. Karson,United States. National Park Service
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015042934433
An important look at 140 prominent landscape architects and their work, this title is full of new and archival photos. Each entry includes biographical information, a discussion of the architect's approach and methodology, and representative plans and photos of major projects. The book emphasizes vital issues in landscape preservation and ecologically sound design. 400 illus.
Author : Peter Walker,Melanie Louise Simo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262731169
Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Luis Barragan, Daniel Urban Kiley, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, Ian McHarg, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo. They were the pioneers of a new profession in America, the first to offer alternatives to the historic landscape and the park tradition, as well as to the suburban sprawl and other unplanned developments of twentieth-century cities and institutions. The work is described against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the postwar recovery, American corporate expansion, and the environmental revolution. The authors look at unbuilt schemes as well as actual gardens, ranging from tiny backyards and play spaces to urban plazas and corporate villas. Some of the projects discussed already occupy a canonical position in modern landscape architecture; others deserve a similar place but are less well known. The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.
Author : Ron Williams
Publisher : McGill Queens Univ
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 077354206X
A groundbreaking history of the development of designed landscapes in Canada.
Author : Daniel Kaven
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624403
A multimedia exploration of the morphology of architecture in the American Southwest as defined by evolving modes of transportation. In examining advances in transportation, the book asks how we have come to acquiesce to the monotonous, isolating, and aesthetically bankrupt landscape of suburbia. It also casts predictions about how the future built landscape will look as it continues to adapt to patterns of human movement.
Author : Therese O'Malley,Elizabeth Kryder-Reid,Anne Helmreich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300101740
This beautifully illustrated historical dictionary of landscape design vocabulary used in North America from the 17th to the mid-19th century defines a selection of one hundred terms and concepts used in garden planning and landscape architecture. Ranging from alcove, arbor, and arch to veranda, wilderness, and wood, each term presents a wealth of documentation, textual sources, and imagery. The broad geographic scope of the texts reveals patterns of regional usage, while the chronological range provides evidence of changing design practice and landscape vocabulary over time. Drawing upon a wealth of newly compiled documentation and accompanied by more than 1,000 images, this dictionary forms the most complete published reference to date on the history of American garden design, and reveals landscape history as integral to the study of American cultural history.
Author : Diane Kostial McGuire,Lois Fern
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884021068
Author : William H. Tishler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0252025938
This richly illustrated collection profiles the bold innovators in landscape architecture who, around the turn of the twentieth century, ventured into the nation's heartland to develop a new style of design celebrating the native midwestern landscape.The pioneers of landscape architecture in the Midwest are responsible for creating some of the most recognizable parks, cemeteries, recreation areas, and other public gathering places in the region.Midwestern Landscape Architectureincludes essays on Adolph Strauch, who introduced a new concept of visually integrated landscape treatment in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery; William Le Baron Jenney, designer of Chicago's diverse West Parks; and Jens Jensen, who created the American Garden in Union Park in Chicago (a celebration of native flora) and founder of The Clearing, a unique school of the arts and humanities in Wisconsin. Other major figures include Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., co-designer of New York's Central Park, whose work in the Midwest included the layout of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and Ossian Cole Simonds, who helped reconcile the formal approach of the City Beautiful movement with the naturalism of the Prairie School in urban park design.This volume also details the contributions of crusaders for ecological awareness and an appreciation of the region's natural heritage. These include horticultural writer Wilhelm Miller, who spread the ideals of the Prairie style, and Genevieve Gillette, a landscape architect and conservationist whose preservation efforts led to the establishment of numerous Michigan state parks and wilderness areas.Midwestern Landscape Architecturefosters a better understanding of how landscape design took shape in the Midwest and how the land itself inspired new solutions to enhance its understated beauty. Despite Olmsted's assessment of the Illinois prairie as "one of the most tiresome landscapes that I ever met with," the Midwest has amassed an important legacy of landscape design that continues to influence how people interact with their environment in the heartland.
Author : Robin S. Karson
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1558494138
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 A. Birnbaum,Scott Craver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Landscape architects
ISBN : 0813941733
Shaping the Postwar Landscape is the latest contribution to the Cultural Landscape Foundation's well-known reference project, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, the first volume of which appeared nearly a quarter of a century ago. The present collection features profiles of seventy-two important figures, including landscape architects, architects, planners, artists, horticulturists, and educators. The volume focuses principally on individuals whose careers reached their height during the period between the end of World War II and the American Bicentennial. In that postwar era, landscape architects played an important part in the revitalization of American cities, introducing new typologies for public spaces in the civic realm. Among these were parks that capped freeways, plazas and gardens atop buildings, promenades on revitalized waterfronts, "vest pocket" parks on tiny urban plots and derelict sites, and pedestrian-friendly downtown malls. Practitioners were also active on the new suburban frontier, their influence extending as far as Levittown and mobile-home communities. They created new outdoor living environments tailored to the California climate, and their work shaped landscaped in the American South, East, West, and Heartland. At a time when interest in midcentury architecture is flourishing, Shaping the Postwar Landscape offers a substantial parallel contribution to the field of landscape studies. It belongs not only on the bookshelves of serious students and scholars but in the office of every landscape architect sensitive to significant works of the recent past.