Landscape architecture and design Books
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The Course of Landscape Architecture
Book SynopsisIn many ways the history of civilization is a history of our relationship with nature and landscape. Drawing on all aspects of mankind's creativity and ingenuity, and bringing together the key stories that have shaped our man-made landscapes, this title sets out to chronicle this intimate connection.Trade Review'This book will become essential to our discipline, encouraging not only those in academia to experience landscape architecture as a multilayered profession' - Landezin.com'This is a book that one can dip into with pleasure, and will delight all those with an interest in architecture, archaeology, and social history' - Current World ArchaeologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Imagining Nature as Landscape • 1. Roots: On the Origins of Landscapes • 2. Hydraulic Civilizations: The Geometry of Water in Landscapes • 3. From Temenos to Physis: Sacred Landscapes in Greece • 4. Of Villas and Woods: Roman and Barbarian Landscapes • 5. The Rule of Faith • 6. Gardens of Perspective: Architectural Landscapes in the Renaissance • 7. The Measure of Reason • 8. Gravity: The Constant of Nature • 9. Combustion and the Exotic: Romantic Landscapes as Escape • 10. Acceleration: Landscapes of the 20th Century • 11. Terrain Vague • 12. Topology: Rediscovering Meaning in the Landscape • Afterword: Towards a Cultural Revolution in Nature
£37.50
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Mien Ruys: The Mother of Modernist Gardens
Book SynopsisFrom 1923 until 1980, Mien Ruys created over 3,000 gardens and landscapes. While most of these are in her native Netherlands, the influence of her designs and approaches spread far wider: many of us will have a little bit of Mien in our gardens, be it a railway sleeper, a diagonal line, a Phlomis russeliana or a water ball. Her work was extraordinary in combining two exceptional elements. Firstly, Mien was one of the leading proponents of modernist design: having trained and collaborated with architects such as Ben Merkelbach, Charles Karsten, Aldo van Eyck, Jan Piet Kloos, Hein Salomonson and Gerrit Rietveld, she introduced clean lines, geometric shapes and innovative materials into garden and landscape design. One of the few women members of CIAM, she was also one of the first to call for architects and landscape architects to collaborate fully from initial design onwards. She did so regularly, often on much needed social housing schemes, but also on schools, hospitals and nursing homes. All her projects shared a desire to offer users a better quality of life. One of her most well-known collaborations was with Gerrit Rietveld in Bergeijk on the Ploeg factory and Park, which has since been listed as a historic monument. Uniquely, she combined this modernist design approach with an extensive knowledge of plants and planting, which she learnt from a very early age in her father’s Royal Moerheim Nursery in Dedemsvaart. Her father had close links with international gardeners, such as Gertrude Jekyll, who greatly influenced Mien as she developed her own loose, natural style of planting. Her book on perennials, published in 1950, was internationally influential and, in seeking deeper understanding about plants and planting, Mien created more than 20 experimental gardens at Dedemsvaart, many of which are now also historic monuments. The book includes a foreword which sets Mien’s work within the wider context, as well as interviews with gardening experts and landscape architects who knew Mien or were deeply influenced by her work, which offer rich insight into Mien’s character and the timeless lessons which can still be learnt from her work.Table of ContentsForeword by Noel Kingsbury. 1 – Mien's formative years and influences. Perspective: Theo Ruijs. 2 - Initial experiments in garden design. Perspective: Anet Scholma. 3 – Geometry. Perspective: Carolien Barkman. 4 – The oblique line. Perspective: Edwin van Onna. 5 - Collaborations with architects. Perspective: Freerk Halbesma. 6 - Innovative materials. Perspective: Jacqueline van der Kloet. 7 - Use of plants. Perspective: Conny den Hollander. 8 – Legacy. Appendix I – List of Key Organisations and Individuals. Further Reading. Acknowledgments.
£35.96
Yale University Press Roberto Burle Marx
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented look at the wide-ranging artistic work of one of the 20th century's most significant landscape architects
£42.75
Birkhauser Open(ing) Spaces: Design as Landscape
Book Synopsis"What does the landscape architect actually do as a designer?" The authors of this book investigate this question, which only seems easy – and address some fundamental ideas about design in landscape architecture: What resources are available for designing open spaces? What role do natural conditions play? What principles are applied? This book identifies and analyses the elements that come together to create landscape architecture. Based on their experience in practice and education, the authors reveal the core components of landscape design. In the introduction to the new edition, Stefan Bernard opens up about the book’s origins and reflects on its continuing importance for the design of high-quality outdoor spaces.
£34.67
Birkhauser Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques,
Book SynopsisConstructing Landscape is a systematic introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants. For landscape architects and architects it is an indispensable guide to correct and professional execution planning as well as to preparing solid and well-thought-out requests for proposal. Constructing Landscape is divided into two sections, Materials and Surfaces and Building Construction and Building Elements. The first section provides an overview of the various building materials of landscape architecture and their specific characteristics. It also explains the qualities of surfaces and the different approaches to treating them. The second section begins with an introductory chapter explaining the principles of statics, the connections of load-bearing elements, and the various approaches to anchoring building compo-nents and supporting structures. The subsequent chapters use drawings and text to present the constructional principles and techniques associated with the various building elements. Each chapter concludes with a collection of sample projects, illustrated with photographs and technical drawings.Table of ContentsIntroduction Essay 1 Material 1.1 Soil 1.2 Plants 1.3 Lawns and other seeded areas 1.4 Wood 1.5 Natural stone 1.6 Bricks and clinker 1.7 Concrete 1.8 Metal, steel in particular 1.9 Other building materials 2 General principles for loadbearing structures 2.1 Loadbearing structures 2.2 Connecting loadbearing elements 2.3 Foundations and retaining structures 3 Building elements and building methods 3.1 Earth structures and ground relief 3.2 Paths and squares 3.3 Steps and ramps 3.4 Handrails, banisters and fences 3.5 Walls 3.6 Small buildings and pergolas 3.7 Walkway structures and wooden platforms 3.8 Small bridges 3.9 Plantations and planting techniques 3.10 Lawns and other seeded areas 3.11 Drainage plant and systems 3.12 Water features 3.13 Vertical planting 3.14 Roof planting 3.15 Standard and non-standard Appendix
£45.60
Thames & Hudson Ltd Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks
Book SynopsisFeaturing hundreds of drawings and illustrations as diverse as their creators, this book intends to be a source of inspiration for planting, design elements, colour schemes and materials, encouraging weekend gardeners, design professionals and students to draw their ideas by hand.Trade Review'Stimulating in its exposition of how professionals use pencils, pens, chalk, crayons and paints as part of their armoury of design tools' - Garden Design Journal'A fantastic record of how garden designers work today' - Gardens Illustrated'Intriguing … the range of projects is vast' - English Garden'A book you will want to pore over and become absorbed in … greatly inspirational' - The Garden
£28.00
Oro Editions An Art of Instrumentality: The Landscape
Book SynopsisThrough selected works this monograph showcases the design work and research of leading landscape architect Richard Weller, Chair of Landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. The book documents the evolution of Weller’s practice from small scale artworks to planning megaregions, including his latest proposal for a World Park. With essays by Jillian Walliss and Dirk Sijmons as well as his own writing, the book explains Weller’s methods and motivations; a unique window on to the ways in which the discipline of landscape architecture has matured over the last 40 years. Through a carefully curated selection of work, the book makes the case that landscape architecture is at best “art of instrumentality. The two essayists in the book are highly regarded. Jillian Walliss of Melbourne University is a contemporary landscape architectural critic and in 2017 Dirk Sijmons received the IFLA sir Geoffrey Jellicoe award, the highest international achievement in landscape architecture.
£36.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd New Nordic Gardens Scandinavian Landscape Design
Book SynopsisAnnika Zetterman is a professional garden designer with over ten years' experience working throughout Scandinavia and the rest of Europe.Trade Review'Sheds light on simple, stylish gardens across the North Sea' - Daily Telegraph'If you love the beauty of the Scandinavian landscape you will love this book' - Reckless Gardener'Presents some of the best gardens created over the past ten years, exploring how Scandinavians mix traditional Nordic planting principles with breathtakingly innovative ideas' - Homes & Gardens'Beautiful ... a fabulous resource' - Cumbria Life'A wide variety of ideas for creating modern outdoor spaces in any environment' - Detroit NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction • Simple: Scandinavian design values and basic principles • Silent: Playing with the captivating Nordic light • Fragile: Principles of planting and selecting plants Pale: Using colour palettes for effect • Naked: Durability meets elegance in hard landscaping • Attuned: Creative opportunities through the seasons • Bold: Urban and environmentally friendly gardens • Open: A grow-your-own lifestyle close to nature Caring: Stimulating spaces made for people to thrive
£21.25
Birkhauser Growing Architecture: How to Design and Build
Book Synopsis A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew how to connect the branches of rubber trees to form footbridges, and in southern Germany dance lime trees formed the centre of villages for centuries. Following on from this, the new discipline of Baubotanik is dedicated to designing with trees. Built projects, prototypes and visionary concepts point the way to a new green architecture. This introduction shows the possibilities of such living constructions and goes into the botanical growth laws that guide the design. The basics of constructing with trees are presented. The book encourages a whole new look at architecture that becomes part of urban nature.
£40.50
Birkhauser Planning Landscape: Dimensions, Elements,
Book SynopsisWhen developing a design concept in a realizable plan, landscape architects oscillate between two different levels of criteria: the tangible design task in context with the planning typology of the park, playground, outdoor swimming pool, or sports facilities, and the individual elements such as steps, ramps, pathways, fenced-in enclosures, outdoor furniture, and so on. Planning Landscape is a well-conceived tool for the planner, which focuses on the two main aspects of “elements” and “typologies”. The planner can flexibly shift between these two according to the specific criterion. The publication presents all information relevant to the planning in a detailed, clear, and cohesive manner. These two main chapters are flanked by an introductory chapter explaining the basics and determining factors of designing in open spaces at the front of the book, andan appendix at the end of the book where general dimensions and units,directives and norms are all clearly compiled.
£41.32
Batsford Ltd Contemporary Landscapes in Mixed Media
Book SynopsisA great guide for painters who want to experiment with mixed media and make their landscape paintings more adventurous. Popular artist and teacher, Soraya French, encourages readers to experiment with mixing media and to create more adventurous paintings and broaden their artistic horizons. The media that Soraya uses in this book are acrylics, pastels and collage and she shows how to bring the best out of mixing these media with handy tips, some simple projects and several step-by-step demonstrations. Landscape, and the way it changes over the seasons, is the ideal subject for experimenting with different textural effects using mixed media. Contemporary Landscapes in Mixed Media is divided into four seasonal chapters, with each section dealing with the colours, shapes, patterns and textures particular to each season. There is information on mixing colours relevant to each season, as well as interesting ways of painting flowers and other details of nature, how to create exciting compositions, and how to add architectural aspects within the landscape. In some landscapes figures may be added in order to animate the composition and create a narrative. This practical and inspirational book will help and encourage the reader to explore the fascinating potential of mixed media and to adopt a freer attitude in their painting.
£16.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd Mediterranean Landscape Design
Book SynopsisHuman beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least thirty thousand years. This multifaceted region. This book offers a vision of the Mediterranean, past and future, linking cultural diversity and natural balance as discovered in its gardens, landscape design, literature, art and architecture.Trade Review'Louisa Jones has lived in southern France for nearly 40 years and her knowledge of and passion for the region is distilled in this scholarly work … Immensely inspirational and informative' - Garden Design Journal'Ambitious and scholarly … Clive Nichols’s photographs speak with eloquence' - Gardens Illustrated
£21.25
Beta-Plus Ultimate Gardens & Swimming Pools
Book SynopsisUltimate Gardens & Swimming Pools Front cover image Wim Pauwels Not yet printed due - 05/19 9782875500656 Hardback Beta-Plus Publishing Territory: World Size: 340 mm x 270 mm Pages: 192 Illustrations: 200 colour RRP £69.95 This book features some of the world's most beautiful private gardens and swimming pools, realised by the best garden and landscape architects working today. Includes private gardens from the UK, France, Belgium, and Hong Kong. Text in English and French.
£52.46
Cengage Learning, Inc Landscape Construction
Book SynopsisHelps your students understand the process of construction and implementation of a multitude of exterior hardscape construction projects. This book begins with the preparation for construction and follows through to the installation of the final elements of the landscape project.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: BEFORE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS. 1. The Landscape Construction Process. 2. Legal Requirements. 3. Interpreting Construction Documents. 4. Construction Math. 5. Project Pricing. 6. Safety in the Workplace. 7. Basic Construction Techniques and Equipment Operation. 8. Construction Staking. SECTION 2: SITE PREPARATION. 9. Preservation of Existing Site Elements. 10. Removing Unwanted Site Elements. SECTION 3: GRADING, SITE DRAINAGE, AND EROSION PROTECTION. 11. Site Grading. 12. Site Drainage. 13. Erosion Control. SECTION 4: SITE UTILITIES. 14. DC Site Lighting and Related Electrical Work. 15. Water and Irrigation System Installation. SECTION 5: LANDSCAPE RETAINING WALLS AND STAIRS. 16. Materials and Installation Techniques for Retaining Walls. 17. Timber Retaining Walls. 18. Segmental Precast Unit Retaining Walls. 19. Dry-Laid Stone Retaining Walls. 20. Gabion Retaining Walls. 21. Stairs. SECTION 6: LANDSCAPE PAVING. 22. Materials and Site Preparation for Paving. 23. Concrete Paving. 24. Unit Pavers. 25. Dry-Laid Stone Paving. 26. Mortared Paving. 27. Granular and Open Cellular Paving. SECTION 7: WOOD LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES. 28. Materials for Exterior Carpentry. 29. Wood Decks and Platforms. 30. Wood Stairs, Railings, Seating, and Skirting. 31. Overhead Structures. SECTION 8: FENCES AND FREESTANDING WALLS. 32. Fencing. 33. Freestanding Walls. SECTION 9: SITE AMENITIES. 34. Water Features and Bridges. 35. Site Furniture, Signage, Prefabricated Playground Equipment, Outdoor Kitchens, and Patio Amenities. 36. Edging, Planters, and Plant Protection Equipment. SECTION 10: PLANTING. 37. Plant Material Installation. 38. Establishment of Turf and Meadows.
£62.69
Taylor & Francis Ltd Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture
Book SynopsisFieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an encounter that determines the entire course of the design process. The book offers a four-part framework (what you seek,' what you carry,' how you act,' and what you leave behind') for learning and practicing fieldwork as a landscape design skill, and contains over sixty first-person accounts by international practitioners and educators about the methods and tools they bring to the field, from drones to dance. The first title of its kind, Fieldwork will be an invaluable resource for students and instructors of landscape architecture, as well as for anyone interested in the practice and experience of direct encounter with real places.
£35.14
Batsford Ltd City Parks: A stroll around the world's most
Book SynopsisA visually stunning and beautifully written celebration of park life around the world. Parks are an absolutely essential part of modern life. From the author who brought you Lido, here are 50 of the world's greatest parks – but not just a list of the examples we already know. Yes, we'll tell you about those storied greats such as Central Park in New York and Phoenix Park in Dublin, but we'll also take you to the Philippines, to Australia, to provincial Britain and around the world to show you the most historic and the most interesting, the newest and most cutting-edge that mix the best of nature and architecture. We'll explore what you can find there, who goes there, why they are important, and how parks respond to their environments, including ones over a road, on old rail lines or in Berlin's former airport. Examples include: • Freeway Park, Seattle, USA: a bizarre and brilliant brutalist park over a motorway. • Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil: this one contains amazing galleries and theatres. • Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, UK: mountains within a city. • Adelaide's parks, Australia: unique in that the entire city centre is enclosed by parks. and many, many more. Illustrated with glorious photographs throughout, this book is a fascinating record of the world's most interesting and innovative parks, and the people who use them – you'll want to visit them all.Trade Review‘Gorgeously illustrated … the captivating entries on parks in Europe, the Far East, America and Australasia will have you hungering for travel. “Skive off, say no to grafting, join everyone else in the park,” Beanland rightly advises.’ Independent ‘A timely reminder of our need for nature, wherever we are’ ELLE Decoration ‘[A] joyous celebration of our green urban havens, captured here with sumptuous photography and charming reflections on the parks featured.’ The Field 'Explores some of the world’s most spectacular parks and how city green spaces have become an essential part of public life.' Express Esther Marshall
£18.36
Oro Editions Periurban Cartographies
Book SynopsisPeriurban Cartographies looks through the prism of the almost urban to consider what a city is or could be. In doing so, the book challenges assumptions and reconsiders design practices.The research reported upon in this study draws on thick description of everyday life and diffuse power in periurban Gangetic West Bengal/Kolkata. It does so in the hope of enriching our understanding of incremental modes of political empowerment and the futures they make. The intention is to not just communicate the transformations at work in creating a particular kind of urban, but also to point to connections that make us rethink the ways in which change happens.The book is a contribution to work being done on urban theory-building from elsewhere than the Global North, specifically from Asia, and periurban Gangetic West Bengal/Kolkata. It is not simply a look at a novel and singular condition in and of itself but uses that singularity to better understand per
£26.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd Unquiet Landscape Places and Ideas in 20thCentury
Book SynopsisâA minor modern classic, to my mind, uniting art history and landscape thought by means of dazzling, dancing, unsettling sentences â Iâm delighted itâs back in print in a new editionâ Robert MacfarlaneTrade Review'Original and engaging … [a] modern classic' - Country Life (Book of the Week)'Fierce, witty, wise, elegiac, supremely indifferent to fashion and confident in the long view, this is among the best books written about landscape' - Financial Times'A fascinating, considered and evocative work' - The Critic'Breath-taking ... extraordinary ... written with perfection' - Christopher LloydTable of Contents1. The Problem of Time • 2. White: The Chalk Landscape • 3. Black • 4. The Need for Roots • 5. The Idea of the Garden • 6. The Grid and the Town • 7. Seeing Becomes Feeling • 8. The Sea • 9. Inlets and Estuaries • 10. God • 11. Psychology • 12. Abstraction • 13. Appetite
£10.44
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Beatrix Farrands Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks
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£25.46
Monacelli Press Toward an Urban Ecology: SCAPE / Landscape
Book SynopsisA manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustainable, and community-oriented spaces. Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes. Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology. In purely practical terms, SCAPE has already generated numerous tools and techniques that designers, policy makers, and communities can use to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, including the loss of biodiversity, the loss of social cohesion, and ecological degradation. Toward an Urban Ecology features numerous projects and select research from SCAPE, and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environment.Trade Review"Those familiar with landscape architecture and urban design today are no doubt already aware of the originality of this practice and would likely expect this book - part manual, part manifesto, and part monograph - to follow suit. The book’s ambition is nothing short of reconceiving urban landscape design as a form of activism.... SCAPE’s Manufestograph begins to address how we as a discipline can actually effect change. Of all the things this requires—design vision, enabling policies, strategic funding streams, creative partnerships, innovative maintenance strategies, feedback loops, new representation strategies—the most important message this book imparts is the tireless advocacy that change requires, and which SCAPE is able to model. I want to be doing this. We all should be doing this. SCAPE has got something important going. And we have to believe it will make a difference." - Journal of Architectural Education "A beautiful book with engaging full-page color photography that delves into Breakwaters, their Rebuild by Design project in Staten Island, and others." - The Dirt "Kate Orff is an optimistic and creative force in the world of climate adaptive design. Her book is part monograph and part a clarion call for the need of meshing the social and environmental to deal with the future problems of our planet." - Land8 "Cities have multiple connections to the biosphere. Today they are all negative, destructive. This book shows us in great detail and with splendid clarity how we can turn them positive. It goes well beyond standard solutions as it brilliantly explores the biosphere and makes discoveries." - Saskia Sassen, Professor, Columbia University and author of Expulsions "[This book is] a call to action on urban ecology and climate change, with landscape as the principal medium. Kate Orff's Toward an Urban Ecology is a presentation of ground-breaking projects by SCAPE, and the principles and strategies that underlie their success. Human societies cannot successfully mitigate and adapt to the stresses of climate change without a new state of mind, and landscape architects and artists have an essential role to play....required reading for landscape architects." - Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of The Granite Garden
£27.96
BAI NV The Wirtz Gardens: Part III
Book SynopsisThe Wirtz Gardens Part III is the third in a series of books on the gardens of landscape architect practice Wirtz International Landscape Architects. It contains 30 gardens, a mixture of private, public and corporate projects in Belgium, Japan, France and England. Private projects in the USA and Switzerland are shown, gardens which enchant by their beautiful setting, their scale or their exclusiveness. Unusual projects like the cloister's gardens of the Hauterive Abbey (Switzerland) or the Haute Couture fashion show stage set for Dior in 2012, and, a secluded Japanese garden with views to Mount Fuji will surprise the reader.
£89.25
Rizzoli International Publications Capability Brown Designing the English Landscape
Book SynopsisIn celebration of his 300th year, a definitive survey of Capability Brown’s most famous gardens and landscapes in Britain. Widely acknowledged as the most influential landscape designer of his age, Lancelot Capability Brown was to England what Frederick Law Olmsted was to America—responsible for shaping the very ideal of the nation’s parkland. Brown’s ambition was to bring out of a landscape the best of its potential rather than impose his own ideas upon it. His designs are organic, weaving gestures of color and perspective into the features that the country already afforded. So natural are his designs, and so perfectly do they complement the houses within them, that for many a Capability Brown landscape is the epitome of the English estate. His gardens and parklands—as much as the houses themselves—would become icons of British country life. Published to coincide with the tercentenary of his birth, this remarkable book illuminates fifteen of BrownTrade Review"In an impressive and gorgeous volume, CAPABILITY BROWN: Designing the English Landscape (Rizzoli, $65), the renowned garden historian John Phibbs argues that Brown created a great art form that, “at its best, was consciously intended to go unnoticed.” It’s no surprise, then, that he became known as 'the Shakespeare of Gardening.'"—The New York Times". . .the gardens of Blenheim and Chatsworth come to life in Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape (Rizzoli)."—Vogue"Fascinating reproductions of rarely seen archival drawings of Brown’s landscape plans shed light on Brown’s thinking and designs, enhancing the book. In one case there is a photograph of a bridge accompanied by the original design drawing of the bridge done by James Paine. Seeing the two side by side is a treat. Accompanying the essays are sumptuous photographs. Joe Cornish is the excellent principal photographer, but the book includes the work of fine other fine photographers, including Andrew Lawson. These images celebrate the soft English light while capturing the natural, parkland beauty of Brown’s designs. The double-page spreads in particular have a painterly feel, evoking the work of 17th century romantic landscape painters such Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Some have an epic quality with dramatic, lowering, thunder-cloud–filled skies, others feature the pale blue skies of a pretty English summer day. The photographs are a fitting tribute to the man who gardened on a grand scale. Phipps writes that Capability Brown, “liked to call himself a ‘place-maker,’ but was more often described as a magician. That sense of magic and mystery persists as we try to understand Brown today.” This book certainly captures the magic." —New York Journal of Books"In word and image, this book matches Brown’s achievement. It should inspire every landscape designer and encourage the rest of us to hop on the next plane to Britain." —FormMag.net"There’s the new ‘Capability Brown’ garden book from Rizzoli, which is fantastic."—StyleSaloniste.com "Praised for his organic gardens and parklands, British landscape designer Capability Brown takes top billing in this eponymous hardcover by historian John Phibbs. The text, published to commemorate Brown’s 300th birthday, illuminates 15 of his grandest designs through vivid photography and rare archival drawings."—Boston Home Magazine
£47.50
Yale University Press The Art of the Louvres Tuileries Garden High
Book SynopsisA stunning new look at the Tuileries Garden and its importance to the history of art and landscape architecture
£45.12
WW Norton & Co An Infinity of Graces
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the work of the English architect and landscape designer who practiced almost exclusively in Italy from 1907 to midcentury.Trade Review"[H]andsome publication . . . beautiful illustrations . . . The scholarly aspects and completeness of this study are evident in the notes and bibliography of this very beautiful book. Highly Recommended." -- CHOICE
£32.39
John Wiley & Sons Inc Public Garden Management
Book SynopsisPublic Garden Management is an all-in-one professional reference and textbook that clearly shows how to develop, establish, manage and maintain a sustainable (both economically and environmentally) public garden.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Foreword (Peter H. Raven). Part I Public Gardens and Their Significance. Chapter 1 What Is a Public Garden? (Donald A. Rakow). Chapter 2 The History and Significance of Public Gardens (Christine Flanagan). Part II The Emerging Garden. Chapter 3 Critical Issues in Starting a Public Garden (Robert E. Lyons). Chapter 4 The Process of Organizing a New Public Garden (Mary Pat Matheson). Chapter 5 Land Acquisition (Maureen Heffernan). Chapter 6 Designing for Plants and People (Iain M. Robertson). Part III Administrative Functions. Chapter 7 Staffing and Personnel Management (Gerard T. Donnelly and Nancy L. Peske). Chapter 8 Volunteer Recruitment and Management (Arlene Ferris). Chapter 9 Budgeting and Financial Planning (Richard Piacentini and Lisa Macioce). Chapter 10 Fund Raising and Membership Development (Patricia Rich). Chapter 11 Earned Income Opportunities (Richard H. Daley). Chapter 12 Facilities and Infrastructure (Eric Tschanz). Chapter 13 Grounds Management and Security (Vincent A. Simeone). Part IV Programmatic Functions. Chapter 14 Public Gardens and Their Communities: The Value of Outreach (Susan Lacerte). Chapter 15 Formal Education for Students, Teachers, and Youth at Public Gardens (Patsy Benveniste and Jennifer Schwarz-Ballard). Chapter 16 Continuing, Professional, and Higher Education (Larry DeBuhr). Chapter 17 Interpreting Gardens to Visitors (Kitty Connolly). Chapter 18 Evaluation of Garden Programming and Planning (Julie Warsowe). Chapter 19 Public Relations and Marketing Communications (Leeann Lavin and Elizabeth Randolph). Chapter 20 Collections Management (David Michener). Chapter 21 Research at Public Gardens (Kayri Havens). Chapter 22 Conservation Practices at Public Gardens (Sarah Reichard). Part V Long-Term Initiatives. Chapter 23 A Strategic Approach to Leadership and Management (Kathleen Socolofsky and Mary Burke). Chapter 24 Associations and Partnerships (Claire Sawyers). Chapter 25 Facility Expansion (Brian Holley). Chapter 26 The Shape of Gardens to Come (Paul B. Redman). Appendix A: Factors in the Development and Management of Canadian Public Gardens (Melanie Sifton and David Galbraith). Appendix B: The Importance of Plant Exploration Today (Paul W. Meyer). Appendix C: Herbaria (Barbara M. Thiers). Appendix D: Public Garden Archives (Sheila Connor). Appendix E: The Library in a Public Garden (Rita M. Hassert). Appendix F: Horticultural Therapy and Public Gardens (Karen L. Kennedy). References. Contributors. Index.
£69.26
Merrell Publishers Ltd The Gardens of Ulf Nordfjell
Book SynopsisThe book takes the form of an incomparable journey looking at the ten new gardens from the internationally renowned garden designer, Ulf Nordfjell, from northern Sweden to the Mediterranean, a journey that passes through many latitudes and climate zones.
£34.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd A Guide to Building Natural Swimming Pools
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£36.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Espalier Fruit Trees For Wall Hedge and Pergola
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£25.19
HarperCollins Publishers A Line Around England
Book SynopsisArtist Simon Harmer creates delightful and distinctive line drawings of our famous landmarks and landscape. In ''A Line Around England'' he travels from Hadrian''s Wall to Cornwall''s coast, illustrating everything from Stonehenge to Blackpool Tower for you to colour in.Artist Simon Harmer creates delightful and distinctive line drawings of our famous landmarks and landscape. In ''A Line Around England'' he travels from Hadrian''s Wall to Cornwall''s coast and his illustrations capture everything from Stonehenge to Blackpool Tower. Each drawing is accompanied by a short text illuminating some quirky and interesting facts about the site.
£8.99
Johns Hopkins University Press A Forest on the Sea
Book SynopsisIt sheds new light on how cultural conceptions about nature influenced political policies for resource conservation and land management in Venice.Trade ReviewA useful work for upper-level students doing in-depth research. Choice The work of Karl Appuhn, based on extensive archival research and rich technical insights, offers a major study devoted to the social, economic, administrative, and political aspects of Venetian forest management. -- David Celetti Renaissance Quarterly Magisterial. -- John M. Hunt Journal of Modern History A wonderful study of Venetian politics, natural knowledge, resource management, and bureaucratic development. -- Chandra Mukerji American Historical Review With this splendid and painstakingly researched volume, Appuhn is sure to inspire others to the view that nature is to be honored and respected, managed if necessary, but not merely there for human taking. -- Robert A. Pierce Sixteenth Century Journal A must-have. Richly illustrated, highly readable, and filled with fascinating detail, this book should also enjoy a far wider readership among Pacific, colonial, and natural historians alike. -- Emily Manktelow Journal of World History Appuhn blazes a trail where others may very usefully follow. -- Paul Warde Cultural and Social History This remarkable book contains many fascinating details. -- Pamela H. Smith IsisTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on DatesIntroductionStates, Economies, and NatureChronology1. Forest Exploitation before the Venetian ConquestVenetian Demand for Forest ProductsRegional Forest Ecologies and the Venetian Timber SupplyLocal Practices of Forest Exploitation and Venetian ShortagesPerceived Shortages and the Emergence of the Market Hierarchy2. The Venetian Discovery of Mainland ForestsWater Management and Venetian Interpretations of Mainland LandscapesLocal Property Rights and the Limits of Venetian Power to Preserve ForestsThe Failure of Market Regulations3. Venetian Forestry Laws and the Creation of Public Forest ReservesThe Creation of the Boschi PubbliciThe 1476 Forestry Laws and the Hierarchy of Forest UtilizationThe Cambrai Crisis, Fiscal Reform, and the Expansion of the State ReservesThe Expansion of Forestry Legislation and Its Consequences4. The Venetian Forest BureaucracyA Divided BureaucracyA New Role for the Provveditori alle LegneSixteenth-Century Forest SurveysHarvests, Local Resistance, and Perceptions of ScarcityThe Catastico Garzoni and the Knowledge Gap5. The Preservation and Reproduction of BureaucraticKnowledgeVenetian Bureaucratic ExpertiseThe Cadastral Surveys and the Preservation of Collective KnowledgeThe Cadastral Surveys as Natural Historical NarrativeTopographical Maps and the Reproduction of Knowledge6. Nature's Republic or Republican Nature?Peak Demand and Peak Anxiety in Eighteenth-CenturyVeniceInstitutional Reform and the Res Publica of ForestsThe Venetian Moral Economy of NatureVenetian Discourses in a European ContextConclusionThe Three Trials of Pietro GavardoFinding Meaning in the ForestAppendixNotesGlossaryBibliography
£49.95
Phaidon Press Ltd 3030 Landscape Architecture
Book SynopsisIn 30:30 Landscape Architecture, 30 of the most renowned landscape architects explore the work of the 30 of the world's top emerging architects with more than 500 illustrations.Trade Review"A mighty tome... the text is large and clear, and the picture size and quality exquisite. This is no coffee table book despite its appearance and glamour. It should be read from front to back... As a landscape architect myself, the book makes me proud... After 40 years' experience, this book motivates me like no other has before. It should be essential reading both in the practice and college environment." —The Garden Design Journal"This lavishly illustrated book... shows a surprising range of exciting approaches that landscape architects are taking today." —Architectural Record"30:30 presents convention-defying work by 30 up-and-coming and 30 established landscape designers." —Architectural Digest"The past few years have seen a revival in landscape design ...30:30 highlights the many ways in which design can be made to impact upon nature." —Wallpaper.com"Highlights how the field is evolving towards an ever more sophisticated approach." —Design Anthology"A fine showcase for outstanding work in this field... Environmental consciousness often extends to landscape design, and this collection will stimulate those readers as well as landscape professionals and students." —Library Journal"A wonderfully illustrated international journey... a tantalising glimpse of where the profession may be heading in the future. ...Kombol introduces several subtle departures from the standard format that makes this book an altogether more interesting read. ...Beautifully presented..." —Architecture Today"This gorgeous coffee-table book gathers the work of 60 people in the field of landscape architecture" —Publishers Weekly"A fine showcase for outstanding work in this field... Environmental consciousness often extends to landscape design, and this collection will stimulate those readers as well as landscape professionals and students." —Library Journal "Offers an insightful look at global landscape architecture and the issues facing architects today."—HamptonsArtHub.com "Landscape architecture gets the Phaidon treatment in this appealing and innovative coffee table book."—The Dirt "Meaghan Kombol’s overview of contemporary landscape architecture offers non-aficionados aerial views of some of the most breath-taking designs from 60 leading global landscape architects."—Amuse.com
£36.00
Park Books Shifting Patterns: Christopher Alexander and the
Book SynopsisChristopher Alexander is a Vienna-born, British-American architect and theorist and the father of the pattern language movement, popularised in his pivotal 1968 book, A Pattern Language, with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, as well as the 1979 follow-up, The Timeless Way of Building. Lesser known but as essential to understanding Alexander's work is his theory of 'systems generating systems' which explains that systems as a whole are created by 'generating systems', and, if we wish to make things which function as 'wholes', we shall have to invent generating systems to create them. Taking the Eishin Campus outside Tokyo, built between 1983 and 1989, as its example, Shifting Patterns is the first book to examine Alexander's theory of 'systems generating systems' and its application to a building design. It brings together essays from an interdisciplinary, international cast of experts, including Eva Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Ernst Beneder, Walter Ruprechter, Hisae Hosoi, Christian Kuhn, Ida Pristinger, and Norihito Nakatani, as well as conversations with Hajo Neis and Takaharu Tezuka to investigate the application of this theory to the school and university complex, the largest project Alexander has realised based on pattern language. Among the issues discussed are topicality, interdisciplinary and internationality, and culture transfer. The essays also look at the design-build movement as an antithesis to today's standardised and commerce-driven architectural production.
£28.00
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated exploration of the impact of Chinese and Japanese material culture on the historic houses and gardens of Britain and Ireland. The art and ornament of China and Japan have had a deep impact in the British Isles. From the seventeenth century onwards, the design and decoration of interiors and gardens in Britain and Ireland was profoundly influenced by the importation of Chinese and Japanese luxury goods, while domestic designers and artisans created their own fanciful interpretations of ‘oriental’ art. Those hybrid styles and tastes have traditionally been known as chinoiserie and japonisme, but they can also be seen as elements of the wider and still very relevant phenomenon of orientalism, or the way the West sees the East. Illustrated with a wealth of new photography and published in association with the National Trust, Borrowed Landscapes is an engaging survey of orientalism in the Trust's historic houses and gardens across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Drawing on new research, Emile de Bruijn demonstrates how elements of Chinese and Japanese culture were simultaneously desired and misunderstood, dismembered and treasured, idealised and caricatured.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. A Pattern Emerges 1600–1690 2. Emblems of Aspiration 1690–1735 3. Peak Chinoiserie 1735–1760 4. Fictions Have Their Own Logic 1760–1780 5. Competing Perspectives 1780–1870 6. The Age of Japonisme 1870–1900 7. New and Old Orientalisms The 20th Century Picture credits Notes Bibliography Index
£28.00
Island Press The Living Landscape, Second Edition: An
Book Synopsis"The Living Landscape" is a manifesto, resource, and textbook for architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, students, and others involved in creating human communities. Since its first edition, published in 1990, it has taught its readers how to develop new built environments while conserving natural resources. No other book presents such a comprehensive approach to planning that is rooted in ecology and design. And no other book offers a similar step-by-step method for planning with an emphasis on sustainable development. This second edition of "The Living Landscape" offers Frederick Steiner's design-oriented ecological methods to a new generation of students and professionals." The Living Landscape" offers: a systematic, highly practical approach to landscape planning that maximizes ecological objectives, community service, and citizen participation; more than 20 challenging case studies that demonstrate how problems were met and overcome, from rural America to large cities; scores of checklists and step-by-step guides; hands-on help with practical zoning, land use, and regulatory issues; coverage of major advances in GIS technology and global sustainability standards; and, more than 150 illustrations.As Steiner emphasizes throughout this book, all of us have a responsibility to the Earth and to our fellow residents on this planet to plan with vision. We are merely visiting this planet, he notes; we should leave good impressions.
£37.05
John Wiley & Sons Inc From Concept to Form in Landscape Design
Book SynopsisOne of the most difficult tasks for a designer is to translate concepts into specific and detailed organizations of space. From Concept to Form in Landscape Design, Second Edition provides vital, functional techniques that make the transformation easier and more effective.Table of ContentsPreface vii Credits ix Chapter 1 The Concept 1 Creativity 1 Philosophical Concepts 5 Functional Concepts 11 Chapter 2 Geometric Form Development 17 The 90°/ Rectangular Theme 18 The 135°/ Octagonal Theme 21 The 120°/ Hexagonal Theme 24 Circles on Circles 30 Concentric Circles and Radii 35 Arcs and Tangents 37 Circle Segments 41 The Ellipse 43 The Spiral 45 Chapter 3 Naturalistic Form Development 48 Design Approaches 48 The Meander 49 The Free Ellipse and Scallops 57 The Free Spiral 62 The Irregular Polygon 66 The Organic Edge 71 Clustering and Fragmentation 75 Fractal Geometry 78 Chapter 4 Principles of Design 81 Basic Elements of Design 81 Organizing Principles 83 Integration of Form 96 Chapter 5 Beyond the Rules: Anomalous and Provocative Design 101 Acute Angle Forms 102 Counter Forms 104 Deconstruction 106 Social and Political Landscapes 109 Eccentric Landscapes 110 Landscapes of Distortion and Illusion 112 Chapter 6 Case Studies 116 Project 1. Silver Arch Sculpture Garden 117 Project 2. Courtyard of Circles 124 Project 3. Corner Lot Garden 129 Project 4. Pools of Pleasure 136 Project 5. Tsukubai Dialogue 143 Project 6. Canopied Retreat 148 Project 7. Platform Connections 155 Appendix 161 Guide Patterns 162 Geometric Construction Methods 169 References 175 Index 176
£58.46
Ridinghouse Patio and Pavilion: The Place of Sculpture in
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the relationship between modern sculpture and architecture in the mid-twentieth century, an interplay that has laid the ground for the semisculptural or semiarchitectural works by architects such as Frank Gehry and artists such as Dan Graham. The first half of the book explores how the addition of sculpture enhanced several architectural projects, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion (1929) and Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook Campus (1934). The second half of the book uses several additional case studies, including Philip Johnson's sculpture court for New York's Museum of Modern Art (1953), to explore what architectural spaces can add to the sculpture they are designed to contain. The author argues that it was in the middle of the twentieth century – before sculptural and architectural forms began to converge – that the complementary nature of the two practices began clearly to emerge: figurative sculpture highlighting the modernist architectural experience, and the abstract qualities of that architecture imparting to sculpture a heightened role.
£16.96
Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd Rainwater Park
Book SynopsisLandscaping is a critical element in improving both the function and appearance of rainwater recycling and stormwater management practices. Designing landscaped areas to soak up rainfall runoff from building and paved areas helps protect water quality in local creeks and waterways. These landscape designs reduce polluted runoff and help prevent creek erosion. As the runoff flows over vegetation and soil in the landscaped area, the water percolates into the ground and pollutants are filtered out or broken down by the soil and plants. As Mike Breedlove, landscape architect and head of Breedlove Land Planning in Conyers, GA, likes to say, The role of the landscape architect is to successfully marry mankind to nature. His statement is even more succinct than the description used by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), which highlights how landscape architects use a comprehensive working knowledge of architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning to design aes
£29.96
Braun Publishing AG Waterscapes: Contemporary Landscaping
Book SynopsisWater is the scarcest of all natural resources. It is a global challenge to develop, produce and deploy technologies, systems and products for sustainable water consumption. The model for this approach is the world leader GROHE, which has been working for some time in the field of ecological solutions for water resources. The GROHE idea is not simply to deal with the economical and functional side of water supply but also to consider the pleasurable aspects of water and to reflect that consideration with the high design requirements of many architects. This volume presents buildings of different typologies with GROHE water technology solutions. The book also features interviews and essays by experts who explain the current state of sustainable water use water developments as well as the interaction of water technology and design.
£13.46
University of Pennsylvania Press Japanese Gardens and Landscapes 16501950
Book SynopsisIn Japanese Landscapes and Gardens, 1650-1950 Wybe Kuitert presents a richly illustrated survey of the gardens and the people who commissioned, created, and used them and chronicles the modernization of traditional aesthetics in the context of economic, political, and environmental transformation.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Landscape Enjoyed at Ease Chapter 2. Garden Stuff and Blueprints for the Masses Chapter 3. Time and Space in a Cup of Tea Chapter 4. Defining the Japanese Garden: Science, Vacuum, and Confusion Chapter 5. Passion and Emotion in the Meiji Landscape Chapter 6. Reforming the Tradition Chapter 7. Everybody's Landscape Epilogue. The Cricket Cage Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£62.90
Birkhauser Sculpture Parks in Europe: A Guide to Art and
Book SynopsisThere is a continually increasing interest in parks and gardens in which modern sculptures and nature form a special symbiosis. Landscapes are an inspiring ambiance for works of art, which in turn add something to the parks and gardens, thus creating a very unique interaction between art and nature. This guide is the second edition and presents more than 90 parks in 27 European countries, now also including Finland, Hungary, and Poland among others. The parks presented include classics such as the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, as well as spectacular new schemes such as the Museo Atlantico, Europe’s first underwater park off the coast of Lanzarote. Each park and the works of art exhibited therein are illustrated with photographs, drawings, and text.
£23.40
Lars Muller Publishers Miniature and Panorama: Vogt Landscape
Book SynopsisUsing a typological structure (landscape, park, square, garden, promenade, etc.), Gunther Vogt describes the theoretical foundation on which the successful projects of Vogt Landscape Architects are based. In recent years they have realized international projects in Europe and the United States, including a new type of city park for the Tate Modern in London (with Herzog & de Meuron); an "all-weather garden" with great poetic power at the Hyatt Hotel in Zurich (with Meili, Peter Architekten);an indoor tropical garden for the Novartis Campus in Basel (with Diener & Diener); and the exterior spaces of the Allianz Arena in Munich (with Herzog & de Meuron). The updated edition shows the finished projects that were presented as plans in the previous edition.
£42.50
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Tree Houses Reimagined
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£34.84
Oro Editions LA+ Imagination
Book SynopsisParadisiacal, utopian, dystopian, heterotopian - islands hold an especially enigmatic and beguiling place in our imagination. Issue 07 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ IMAGINATION open international design ideas competition, in which we asked designers to create a new island. In addition to showcasing the winners and other interesting, unusual, or surprising entries, LA+ IMAGINATION features interviews with jurors James Corner, Richard Weller, Marion Weiss, Javier Arpa, Matthew Gandy, and Mark Kingwell.
£13.50
ActarD Inc Between East and West: A Gulf
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£28.50
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Technology and the Garden Dumbarton Oaks
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£35.66
University of Virginia Press Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Making the Modern
Book SynopsisCornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Susan Herrington draws on archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer the first biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect.Trade Review“This is a wonderful book about a remarkable woman. Susan Herrington deftly embeds the life and career of Cornelia Oberlander into the trajectory of modern landscape architecture, giving her her rightful place among leading modern designers. Oberlander is a trailblazer for women and for landscape architecture, always addressing Canada’s distinct cultures and landscapes, where she is now a national treasure.” —Kenneth Helphand, University of Oregon, author of Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime.
£18.00
Oro Editions The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design
Book SynopsisPlanting design is, rather obviously, a complex topic, spanning as it does art, science, social need, and morality - especially during these days of increasing planetary environmental threat. Although certainly not denying the importance of scientifically appropriate practices, the symposium “The Aesthetics of [Contemporary] Planting Design” addressed planting design today, proposing a renewed concern for the cultural and aesthetic aspects of the landscapes that result. This book, which has been developed from the original presentations at the symposium, presents the thoughts of a select international group of landscape architects and historians who discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work as well as the work of others, both contemporary and historical. They suggest that, as in real estate, the most important factor in selecting plants is “location, location, location.” Certainly the Californian situation is far more forgiving than the aridity and other restrictive environmental conditions endemic to the Sonoran desert, or the frost and short growing seasons of Nordic lands that direct Scandinavian landscape architects to rely on native birches, pines, rowan, and moss. Most of us would agree that there are plants sensible for each climatic zone. Addressing environmental conditions is but the first step in the equation, however. There are also the issues of combination and composition.
£29.60
