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Author | : Tom Turner |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1136742131 |
In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.
Author | : Song Jia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : 9789881997333 |
Public landscapes are an integral part of city life. They not only add beauty to city, but also maintain a harmony and balance between human and environment. This book contains the most recent representative works of numerous excellent designers from across the world. The spaces illustrated include parks, streets, squares, commercial spaces, educational spaces, and cultural spaces. It illustrates the most unique landscape designs from design concept to detailed description, from overall landscapes to partial features.
Author | : Carol Grove |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-04-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0820354813 |
When Sidney J. Hare (1860-1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888-1960) launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture and planning practice in the Midwest. Over time, their work became increasingly far-ranging, in both its geographical scope and its project types. Between 1924 and 1955, Hare & Hare commissions included fifty-four cemeteries in fifteen states; numerous city and state parks (seventeen in Missouri alone); more than fifteen subdivisions in Salt Lake City; the Denver neighborhood of Belcaro Park; the picturesque grounds of the Christian Science Sanatorium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; and the University of Texas at Austin among fifty-one college and university campuses. In Hare & Hare: Landscape Architects and City Planners Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein document the extraordinary achievements of this little-known firm and weave them into a narrative that spans from the birth of the late nineteenth-century "modern cemetery movement" to midcentury modernism. Through the figures of Sidney, a "homespun" amateur geologist who built a rustic family retreat called Harecliff, and his son Herbert, an urbane Harvard-trained landscape architect who traveled Europe and lived in a modern apartment building, Grove and Millstein chronicle the growth of the field from its amorphous Victorian beginnings to its coalescence as a profession during the first half of the twentieth century. Hare & Hare provides a unique and valuable parallel to studies of prominent East and West Coast landscape architecture firms--one that expands the reader's understanding of the history of American landscape architecture practice.
Author | : Peter J. Trowbridge |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2004-02-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780471392460 |
This hands-on guidebook provides practical, applied information on design considerations, site planning and understand-ing, plant selection, installation, and maintenance of trees in challenging urban environments.
Author | : Elke Mertens |
Publisher | : Birkhäuser |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 3035622655 |
Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and interdisciplinarity and contribute to the quality of everyday life. These range from green roofs and facades to urban gardening and the landscaping of large-scale protection works. This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America, from Vancouver to Rio de Janeiro, to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Outstanding projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. The author also addresses the social and cultural dimensions of resilience.
Author | : Peirce Fee Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
But, in meeting them, the city's diverse ethnic groups - French, Spanish, Anglo-America, and African-American - have created a place with a history and culture unlike any other in North America.".
Author | : John Salminen |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1440348286 |
Take a Journey with the Master of the Urban Landscape! John Salminen is one of the most accomplished watercolor artists working today, earning awards and recognition all over the world. Whether depicting the trees of Central Park, the architecture of San Francisco or the busy streets of Beijing, John Salminen's watercolor paintings are snapshots of urban life that are both rich in detail and universal in appeal. In Master of the Urban Landscape, Salminen shares over 150 pieces of his artwork, spanning his entire career. His early abstracts and recent plein air work in the book's Introduction set the groundwork for four chapters of remarkable watercolor paintings that highlight different aspects of his work: architectural form, organic form, human form and light and shadow. Throughout, Salminen shares the inspiration for his paintings, challenges he encountered and techniques he used to capture unique scenes from cities around the world. Embark on an amazing watercolor journey with John Salminen—Master of the Urban Landscape. "John Salminen is a master of the medium of watercolor. His sense of light and design sets him apart from his contemporaries, and he has emerged as one of the finest living artists of our times with a style very much his own." --Dean Mitchell
Author | : Charles Waldheim |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0691238308 |
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 | : Andrs Duany |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2013-06-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0865717400 |
Landscape Urbanism vs. the New Urbanism—negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world.
Author | : Dorothée Imbert |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0822943700 |
The first biography and study of the work of Belgian landscape architect Jean Canneel-Claes, a significant but somewhat overlooked figure from the history of European modernism. In tracing his contributions, Imbert restores Canneel as a major figure in the development of landscape architecture into a modern discipline.