Thinking A Modern Landscape Architecture West And East

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1943532788

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Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East by Marc Treib Pdf

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.

Author : Marc Treib,Susan Herrington,Claude Cormier et Associés
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1954081014

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Serious Fun by Marc Treib,Susan Herrington,Claude Cormier et Associés Pdf

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.

Author : Christophe Girot,Dora Imhof
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616895594

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Thinking the Contemporary Landscape by Christophe Girot,Dora Imhof Pdf

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.

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1954081154

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The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design by Marc Treib Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Pregill,Nancy Volkman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471293288

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Landscapes in History by Philip Pregill,Nancy Volkman Pdf

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)

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1957183241

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The Shape of Land by Marc Treib Pdf

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.

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-07-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700514

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Modern Landscape Architecture by Marc Treib Pdf

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.

Author : Marc Treib,Dorothée Imbert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520246829

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Garrett Eckbo by Marc Treib,Dorothée Imbert Pdf

A beautifully illustrated consideration of the life and career of modernist landscape architect Garrett Eckbo.

Author : Bruce Sharky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317538400

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Thinking about Landscape Architecture by Bruce Sharky Pdf

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.

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812236238

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The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 by Marc Treib Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Oles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226199245

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Walls by Thomas Oles Pdf

This book about walls is genuinely exciting and alive with insights, elegance, rigor, style, and thoughtful humanism. It reveals and interrogates the social, political, and historical complexities of one of our most common landscape features, demonstrating how we misconstrue or fail to appreciate the nature and possibilities of physical boundaries. Oles shows that our societies and our politics are shaped by the nature and quality of the divisions we make on and among landscapes, and he interrogates practical, theoretical, and ethical aspects of our landscapes and the boundaries between them. This leads him into stark discussions of barriers such as the US-Mexico border fence, Israel’s fortifications in the West Bank, and the kinds of residential barriers that define neighborhoods by their edges in communities worldwide, from Johannesburg to Levittown. Oles further locates counternarratives of walls, showing how people have lived in walls or used them in seemingly contradictory ways, letting permeability become a form of strength.

Author : Susan Herrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315470757

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Landscape Theory in Design by Susan Herrington Pdf

Phenomenology, Materiality, Cybernetics, Palimpsest, Cyborgs, Landscape Urbanism, Typology, Semiotics, Deconstruction - the minefield of theoretical ideas that students must navigate today can be utterly confusing, and how do these theories translate to the design studio? Landscape Theory in Design introduces theoretical ideas to students without the use of jargon or an assumption of extensive knowledge in other fields, and in doing so, links these ideas to the processes of design. In five thematic chapters Susan Herrington explains: the theoretic groundings of the theory of philosophy, why it matters to design, an example of the theory in a work of landscape architecture from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, debates surrounding the theory (particularly as they elaborate modern and postmodern thought) and primary readings that can be read as companions to her text. An extensive glossary of theoretical terms also adds a vital contribution to students’ comprehension of theories relevant to the design of landscapes and gardens. Covering the design of over 40 landscape architects, architects, and designers in 111 distinct projects from 20 different countries, Landscape Theory in Design is essential reading for any student of the landscape.

Author : Charles Waldheim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691238302

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Landscape as Urbanism by Charles Waldheim Pdf

A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanism It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another—or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age. In Landscape as Urbanism, one of the field's pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape. Charles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a "new art" charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social conditions. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as urban planning shifted from design to social science, and as urban design committed to neotraditional models of town planning, landscape urbanism emerged to fill a void at the heart of the contemporary urban project. Generously illustrated, Landscape as Urbanism examines works from around the world by designers ranging from Ludwig Hilberseimer, Andrea Branzi, and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, and Michael Van Valkenburgh. The result is the definitive account of an emerging field that is likely to influence the design of cities for decades to come.

Author : Jory Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020875681

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Modern Landscape Architecture by Jory Johnson Pdf

Author : Susan Herrington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813935362

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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander by Susan Herrington Pdf

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.