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Author | : Marc Treib |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2011-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1136804595 |
This book offers the professional a rich source of ideas about the designed landscape, what these mean to us and how they acquired that significance. Key essays from landscape architects are presented with the authors’ current reflections.
Author | : Marc Treib |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1136804587 |
While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer really imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time, created by those who perceive and use these landscapes? What role does the selection and arrangement of plants and hard materials play in this process and just where does the passage of time enter into the equation? These questions collectively provide the core material for Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens, a compendium of four landmark essays written over a period of twenty years by leading scholars in the field of landscape architecture. New commentaries by the authors accompany each of the essays and reflect on the thinking behind them as well as the evolution of the author’s thoughts since their original publication. Although the central theme of these writings is landscape architecture broadly taken, the principal subject of several essays and commentaries is the garden, a subject historically plentiful in allusions and metaphors. As a whole Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens offers the general reader as well as the professional a rich source of ideas about the designed landscape and the ways by which we perceive, consider, react, and dwell within them – and what they mean to us. The essays have been perennial favorites in landscape courses since their original publication in Landscape Journal. Bringing them together – bolstered by the new commentaries – creates a book valuable to all those creating gardens and landscapes, as well as those teaching and studying these subjects.
Author | : John Dixon Hunt |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262581318 |
A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely".
Author | : Marc Treib |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Landscape design |
ISBN | : 9780302827895 |
Author | : Mark Francis |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262560610 |
maps out how the garden is perceived, designed, used, and valued
Author | : Catherine Dee |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134577893 |
This book is an introduction to landscape architecture for students. Landscape architecture is a visual subject so the book is be illustrated with the author's own drawings.
Author | : M. J. Vroom |
Publisher | : Birkhäuser |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2006-03-17 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
"In the lexicon of garden and landscape architecture, Professor Meto J. Vroom gets to the heart of over 250 key landscape concepts. Through definition, illustration and reference to the essential literature, he delineates and expands the theoretical framework of his discipline, thereby opening a fascinating gateway towards understanding change in our urban and rural landscapes. This work will prove an indispensable point of reference for all those involved in landscape architecture - practitioners and amateurs alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Julian Raxworthy |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2023-08-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262547120 |
A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way. Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches—from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist's “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening.
Author | : D. Fairchild Ruggles |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2011-12-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0812207289 |
Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and diversity of the art form. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes immerses the reader in the world of the architects of the great gardens of the Islamic world, from medieval Morocco to contemporary India. Just as Islamic culture is historically dense, sophisticated, and complex, so too is the history of its built landscapes. Islamic gardens began from the practical need to organize the surrounding space of human civilization, tame nature, enhance the earth's yield, and create a legible map on which to distribute natural resources. Ruggles follows the evolution of these early farming efforts to their aristocratic apex in famous formal gardens of the Alhambra in Spain and the Taj Mahal in Agra. Whether in a humble city home or a royal courtyard, the garden has several defining characteristics, which Ruggles discusses. Most notable is an enclosed space divided into four equal parts surrounding a central design element. The traditional Islamic garden is inwardly focused, usually surrounded by buildings or in the form of a courtyard. Water provides a counterpoint to the portioned green sections. Ranging across poetry, court documents, agronomy manuals, and early garden representations, and richly illustrated with pictures and site plans, Islamic Gardens and Landscapes is a book of impressive scope sure to interest scholars and enthusiasts alike.
Author | : Elizabeth Boults |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2010-02-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0470289333 |
A visual journey through the history of landscape design For thousands of years, people have altered the meaning of space by reshaping nature. As an art form, these architectural landscape creations are stamped with societal imprints unique to their environment and place in time. Illustrated History of Landscape Design takes an optical sweep of the iconic landscapes constructed throughout the ages. Organized by century and geographic region, this highly visual reference uses hundreds of masterful pen-and-ink drawings to show how historical context and cultural connections can illuminate today's design possibilities. This guide includes: Storyboards, case studies, and visual narratives to portray spaces Plan, section, and elevation drawings of key spaces Summaries of design concepts, principles, and vocabularies Historic and contemporary works of art that illuminate a specific era Descriptions of how the landscape has been shaped over time in response to human need Directing both students and practitioners along a visually stimulating timeline, Illustrated History of Landscape Design is a valuable educational tool as well as an endless source ofinspiration.