On Site

On Site
Author: Lisa Diedrich
Publisher: Birkhaüser
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783764389505

'On Site' presents projects and strategies in landscape architecture from Berlin to Bordeaux. The projects are supplemented by essays on European cartography, the cultural landscape, the history of ideas in landscape architecture, the role of ideal landscapes, urban policies, and the pioneers from Portugal.

Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation

Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation
Author: Gail Lee Dubrow
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2003-01-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801870521

This essay collection draws upon work presented at three national conferences on women and historic preservation held at Bryn Mawr College in 1994, Arizona State University in 1997, and at Mount Vernon College in 2000.

Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America

Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America
Author: Arnold R. Alanen
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2000-04-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801862649

Foreword : In search of the American cultural landscape / Dolores Hayden -- Considering nature and culture in historic landscape preservation / Robert Z. Melnick -- Selling heritage landscapes / Richard Francaviglia -- The history and preservation of urban parks and cemeteries / David Schuyler and Patricia M. O'Donnell -- Appropriating place in Puerto Rican barrios : preserving contemporary urban landscapes / Luis Aponte-Parés -- Considering the ordinary : vernacular landscapes in small towns and rural areas / Arnold R. Alanen -- Asian American imprints on the Western landscape / Gail Lee Dubrow -- Ethnographic landscapes : transforming nature into culture / Donald L. Hardesty -- Integrity as a value in cultural landscape preservation / Catherine Howett.

The Landscape of Civilisation

The Landscape of Civilisation
Author: Geoffrey Jellicoe
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1989
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The following is inscribed on page 308 of the author's copy of Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy : ' During this chapter decided to write a history of landscape architecture, at 10.05am Sunday 23rd May 1958' , and ' completed at Taormina, Feb. 1975 ' Ten years later the idea of translating his great work The Landscape of Man into visible form was formulated at Seattle on the evening of 19 May 1985. The sketch plan, with little future deviation, was completed in time for breakfast the following morning. The Historical Gardens that this book describes are only part of a multi-million twenty year programme initiated by the Moody Foundation for the enrichment of Galveston, Texas - a city destroyed by inundation in 1900 and now materially recovered. The site of the gardens themselves is twenty-five acres of flat land adjoining sea marshes. This will be divided by artificial mountains into West and East. There will be fifteen cultures and the guide will take the visitor through the

In Touch

In Touch
Author: Lisa Diedrich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Landscape architecture
ISBN: 9789075271805

In Touch' presents the finest European landscape architecture. An independent international committee of leading landscape architects selected more than forty projects out of the 500 submissions. Eleven projects receive special attention in a lavishly illustrated plan analysis. Trends and developments in the field are being examined thoroughly in the essays. Issues that are dealt with are for instance the interaction with nature, the growing importance of design research, the search for the correct form language, and the roots of design traditions in Switzerland and Catalonia.

Landscape Ecology

Landscape Ecology
Author: Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1986-02-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This important new work--the first of its kind--focuses on the distribution patterns of landscape elements or ecosystems; the flows of animals, plants, energy, mineral nutrients and water; and the ecological changes in the landscape over time. Includes over 1,200 references from current ecology, geography, forestry, and wildlife biologcy literature.

Contemporary Living Yearbook 2022 Hb

Contemporary Living Yearbook 2022 Hb
Author: PAUWELS
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9782875501066

- 30 new residential projects, in a contemporary style, from all over the world For more than two decades, Beta-Plus has specialized in exclusive coffee table books on architecture, interiors and gardens. For this new edition of the Yearbook, the focus, as last year, is on top quality, traditional craftsmanship and understated class. This volume, in a handy format, contains exclusive new projects from renowned architects, interior designers, garden and landscape architects, and experienced professionals from all over the world. Published to coincide with Contemporary Living Yearbook 2022 is Timeless Living Yearbook 2022, which emphasizes classic and more traditional forms, the integration of antique building materials, wood and natural stone, exclusive fabrics and objects, the restoration of homes and farms. Both Yearbooks complement each other perfectly and together offer a selection of dozens of recently finished villas, country houses, townhouses and apartments. Text in English French and Dutch.