Midwestern Landscape Architecture

Midwestern Landscape Architecture
Author: William H. Tishler
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780252072147

Generously illustrated, this collection profiles the bold innovators in turn-of-the-century landscape architecture who developed a new style of design celebrating the native midwestern landscape.

Midwest Landscape Design

Midwest Landscape Design
Author: Susan McClure
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1999
Genre: Gardens
ISBN:

Each chapter of Midwest Landscape Design focuses on a particular Midwest region's unique appearance and growing conditions and is accompanied by lavish color photographs illustrating both landscape designs and individual plants. Profiles of regional designers include background information on the designers and their creations, valuable information on their recommended plants and personal gardening tips, and how-to sections for implementing their designs. Providing both stunning photography and practical advice, Midwest Landscape Design enables all gardeners to incorporate the best of heartland landscape design into their own gardens.

Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners

Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners
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.

Transformations

Transformations
Author: David Van Zelst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781588620422

David Van Zelst, founder and president of Van Zelst, Inc., Wadsworth, Ill., presents landscaping projects he has designed and installed.

Immigrant Pastoral

Immigrant Pastoral
Author: Susan Dieterlen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317422899

Immigrant Pastoral examines the growth of new Mexican heritage communities in the Midwest through the physical form of their cities and neighborhoods. The landscapes of these New Communities contrast with nearby small cities that are home to longstanding Mexican-American communities, where different landscapes reveal a history of inequality of opportunity. Together these two landscape types illustrate how inequality can persist or abate through comprehensive descriptions of the three main types of Midwestern Mexican-American landscapes: Established Communities, New Communities, and Mixed Communities. Each is described in spatial and non-spatial terms, with a focus on one example city. Specific directives about design and planning work in each landscape type follow these descriptions, presented in case studies of hypothetical landscape architectural projects. Subsequent chapters discuss less common Midwestern Mexican-American landscape types and their opportunities for design and planning, and implications for other immigrant communities in other places. This story of places shaped by immigrants new and old and the reactions of other residents to their arrival is critical to the future of all cities, towns, and neighborhoods striving to weather the economic transformations and demographic shifts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The challenges facing these cities demand the recognition and appreciation of their multicultural assets, in order to craft a bright and inclusive future.

Midwest Architecture Journeys

Midwest Architecture Journeys
Author: Zach Mortice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781948742573

A reexamination of overlooked Midwestern architectural styles

Landscape Observatory

Landscape Observatory
Author: M. Elen Deming
Publisher: Applied Research + Design Publishing
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781939621924

The modernist history of landscape architecture is deeply marbled with veins of regional and phenomenological sensibility. Master designer Terence G. Harkness reflects this sensibility in every region he inhabits - whether the foothills of northern California, the high plains of North Dakota, or the lost prairies of east central Illinois. The long arc of his work and teaching is essentially and critically eco-revelatory. Yet because Harkness is not principally a scholar, his work has not been widely studied. That omission is redressed by this presentation of Harkness' most significant and recognizable works, including drawings, plans, models, and photographs. Contributors to the book chronicle Terry's development and values and position him in the currents of contemporary landscape discourse.

Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design

Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Author: M. Elen Deming
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2015-11-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0807160806

The successful realization of diversity, resilience, usefulness, profitability, or beauty in landscape design requires a firm understanding of the stakeholders’ values. This collection, which incorporates a wide variety of geographic locations and cultural perspectives, reinforces the necessity for clear and articulate comprehension of the many factors that guide the design process. As the contributors to this collection reveal, dominant and emerging social, political, philosophical, and economic concerns perpetually assert themselves in designed landscapes, from manifestations of class consciousness in Napa Valley vineyards to recurring themes and conflicts in American commemorative culture as seen in designs for national memorials. One essay demonstrates the lasting impact of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny on the culture and spaces of the Midwest, while another considers the shifting historical narratives that led to the de-domestication and subsequent re-wilding of the Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands. These eleven essays help foster the ability to conduct a balanced analysis of various value systems and produce a lucid visualization of the necessary tradeoffs. Offering an array of case studies and theoretical arguments, Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design encourages professionals and educators to bring self-awareness, precision, and accountability to their consideration of landscape designs.