Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture
Author: Jamie Liversedge
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-03-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1780675313

Aimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practice of landscape architecture, the professional skills required and the latest developments. After discussing the history of the profession, the book explains the design process through principles such as hierarchy, human scale, unity, harmony, asymmetry, colour, form and texture. It looks at how design is represented through both drawing and modelling, and through digital techniques such as CAD and the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems). This is followed by an examination of project management and landscape management techniques. Finally, the book explores educational and employment opportunities and the future of the profession in the context of climate change and sustainability. Illustrated with international examples of completed projects, Landscape Architecture provides an invaluable, one-stop resource for anyone considering studying or a career in this field.

Paradise Planned

Paradise Planned
Author: Robert A.M. Stern
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 1073
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1580933262

Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.

Landscape Works with Piet Oudolf and LOLA

Landscape Works with Piet Oudolf and LOLA
Author: Piet Oudolf
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9789462086302

In Search of Sharawadgi' presents the ideas and dreams of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects. Piet Oudolf is the Netherlands? most well-known garden designer and he has completed such famous projects as the High Line in New York.00This book takes the reader on a journey, showing them how public gardens and landscapes across the world have been transformed. Form the High Line in New York, the gardens of Hauser & Wirth in Somerset, the Star Maze in Tytsjerk to the Leisure Lane in Parkstad. Familiarise yourself with Oudolf?s and LOLA's ultimate vision for the future: a global forest against the warming of the earth. A dream that can start in anyone?s garden, however big or small.00On this journey we are accompanied by the artists Joseph Beuys, Anne Geene, Geert Mul, Sanne Vaassen, Giuseppe Licari and Darcy Neven. With new and existing work, they present us an extraordinary perspective on the discipline of garden design, and major issues such as global warming and the impact of nature on our well-being. 00Exhibition: SCHUNCK Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands (02.05.-03.10.2021).

European Landscape Architecture

European Landscape Architecture
Author: Ian Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2007-09-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134397844

Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details. Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book offers a more profound understanding of decision making through all stages of the design process. The book includes the study of the choice of materials and techniques of construction, and explores the cultural and symbolic significance of such choices, as well as questions of environmental sustainability. With projects analyzed and evaluated here that have won international acclaim, or have been awarded national prizes, European Landscape Architecture is a core book in the study and understanding of the subject.

Fundamentals of Garden Designing

Fundamentals of Garden Designing
Author: R. K. Roy
Publisher: New India Publishing Agency
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9789381450307

This perplexity of common people inspired me to record technical information in concise way on garden designing in the form of this book. The main purpose is to provide basic information on design, features, plants, maintenance and how to combine these in the form of gardens. The way these have been illustrated with examples, photographs and list of plants for each feature will certainly help all for finalizing various issues of garden developments. Students of ornamental horticulture and researchers will find chapters on historical aspects, principles and various styles of garden designing of the world supported with relevant reference for further studies. Amateur garden lovers and house owners who like to do designing, selection of plants for their own garden, will find the practical guidelines contained in the book most useful. Professionals, who are associated with designing and development of gardens, will find complete guidelines in the form of designs, features, plants and maintenance of specialized gardens to fulfill the requirements of various situations like factories, temples, avenues, airports, home etc. Those who like to get the garden development job thorough agencies / landscape contractors will find relevant information in the appendix. Even sources of supplies in different region have been provided for facilitating procurement of plant and sundries. By that way, the book will serve as a complete guide for those who are in need of technical information on garden development.

Spaces in Translation

Spaces in Translation
Author: Christian Tagsold
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0812246748

In Spaces in Translation, Christian Tagsold explores Japanese gardens in the West and ponders their history, the reasons for their popularity, and their connections to geopolitical events. He concludes that a process of cultural translation between Japanese and Western experts created an idea of the Orient and its distinction from the West.

The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century

The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century
Author: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1990
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780884021872

In 1988-89 the three hundredth anniversary of an important historical event, the ascension of William and Mary to the thrones of England and Scotland, was celebrated in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The symposium on Dutch garden art held at Dumbarton Oaks in May 1988 was the only scholarly event during the anniversary year that focused wholly upon gardens. This wide-ranging collection of essays charts the history, scope, and spread of Dutch garden art during the seventeenth century. A group of scholars, mostly Dutch, surveys what has been called the "golden age" of Dutch garden design. Essays discuss the political context of William's building and gardening activities at his palace of Het Loo in the Netherlands; the development of a distinctively Dutch garden art during the seventeenth century; country house poetry; and specific estates and their gardens, such as those of Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen at Cleves or Sorgvliet, the estate of Hans Willem Bentinck, later the Earl of Portland. Other contributions concern typical Dutch planting and layouts, with a focus upon Jan van der Green's much-circulated Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier; the designs of Daniel Marot, the Huguenot refugee from France, who worked for William III in both the Netherlands and England; and theattitudes of the English toward Dutch gardening as it was observed in practice and mythologized through the distorting lens of national cooperation and rivalries.