Landscape architecture and design Books
Apple Academic Press Biodiversity of the Himalaya
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Archaeopress The Life and Works of W.G. Collingwood: A wayward
Book SynopsisThe son of a watercolour artist, William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) studied at University College, Oxford where he met John Ruskin, whose secretary he later became and with whom he shared a wide range of interests. Collingwood travelled extensively, sketching as he went, and after studying at the Slade School of Art, moved to the Lake District where he wrote extensively about the Lakes, Icelandic sagas and Norse mythology, as well as publishing a biography on Ruskin in 1893. He was an accomplished artist, founding the Lake Artists Society in 1904 and serving as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading from 1905-11. His interest in art and Scandinavia prompted his research into the Pre-Norman Crosses of Cumbria and the North of England. In 1927 he published ‘Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age’, illustrated with his own drawings. He was also an accomplished musician, climber, swimmer and walker. His son was the noted archaeologist (a leading authority on Roman Britain), philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood. This well researched biography provides a comprehensive account of the life and works of a nineteenth century polymath whose story should be better known.Table of ContentsChronology ; Preface ; Chapter I Collingwood Family (1761-1854) ; Chapter II Boyhood (1854-1872) ; Chapter III Student Days (1872-1876) ; Chapter IV Becoming an Artist (1876-1882) ; Chapter V Edith Isaac (Dorrie) and Marriage (1877-1884) ; Chapter VI Life at Gillhead Windermere (1883-1891) ; Chapter VII Working with Ruskin (1881-1900) ; Chapter VIII Life in Lakeland (1891-1932) ; Chapter IX Researching the Past (1884-1932) ; Chapter X Scandinavian Studies (1895-1928) ; Chapter XI Academia and Lanehead (1905-1917) ; Chapter XII Naval Intelligence (1917-1919) ; Chapter XIII Later Research (1920-1930) ; Chapter XIV Future of Lakeland (1932-) ; Chapter XV Father and Son (1889-1932) ; Chapter XVI Last Years (1928-1932) ; Notes ; Appendix A ; Index
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Oro Editions Rurality Re-imagined: Villagers, Farmers,
Book Synopsisurality Re-imagined is divided into four loosely-themed sections: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers, and Wild Things. Each comprises five or six diverse chapters of varied length. In the Villagers section rural communities are considered as assemblages and spaces of vernacularity, as dark settings for TV dramas, new wave photography, and as sites for community arts projects. The Farmers section critically re-invigorates the historical fascination with peasantry and farming in the arts, through essays, painting, and photography that collectively place the agency of the artist under as much scrutiny as images of agricultural space and people. Stereotypically, the word 'Wanderers' conjures images of gypsy caravans, or country ramblers, but in this section the term is stretched to include not only the traditional migrations of reindeer herds, but also that of the motorway driver, and migrations of cultural forms too, such as that of hip-hop from the clubs of New York to the fields of rural Devon. In the essays and images in the Wild Things section the wilderness emerges as a highly contested cultural terrain, far from any state of purity, as it manifests itself in the behaviours of people, flora, and fauna in cultivated and uncultivated landscapes and parks.Trade Review"This sparkling collection of essays, photographs, artwork, creative writing and meditations represents a sustained exploration of and contribution to cultures of the countryside and the liminal spaces of the non-urban. Through it we see the contemporary rural in cultural glimpses and social practices, as we seek to make sense of our desire to escape to or from its diminishing scope. It will be of fascination to today's pastoralists and re-wilders, but it should absolutely be read too by cool artists of the city, urban designers and policy-makers alike, indeed by anyone curious about life and culture in 21st-century landscapes."--George McKay "The writers, designers and artists assembled in Rurality Re-imagined ask us to take seriously the neglected countryside, but not to simply assume that neglect and re-present familiar ideas and ideals of the rural as local in opposition to the urban as global. Through collectively reflecting on their own imaginings, experiences and thinking about rurality, and with a suitably diverse set of case studies, the contributors truly open up rural space for readers. The book's four-fold structure takes us from rural communities and farming practices to rural mobilities and the contested 'wildness' of the countryside. Individual chapters read TV drama, rural tradition, haystacks, hip hop, Leylandii and cruising - and much more besides. Rurality Re-imagined challenges all of us in the 'space design disciplines' (and those beyond, too) to look anew at the rural as a spatial and cultural category, as a representational repertoire, and as lived experience. It is a landmark publication in an emerging 'new rural studies' no longer either romanticized as idyll or written off as backwater, the rural here truly is reimagined in the age of the global village."--David Bell
£27.00
Oro Editions Civic Purpose
Book SynopsisTime is a factor in urban design.Projects sometimes take decades to materialise.Some never make it.This monograph features three decades of urban design projects at Johnson Fain varying in type and scale from conceptual architecture to the design for major city additions, to environmental plans for sites thousands of square kilometers in area.Some have been built; some remain in process.They represent a wide range of engagements, and all seek to address our goal to achieve civic purpose, benefiting the city, the community and the project's sponsor.Civic Purpose contributing to the civility of a city is central to all our projects, public or private.Public and private sponsors may share similar views of civic purposes, yet often are motivated for different reasons the public interest in social equity and environmental quality, and the private in engendering support for a project's entitlements. The urban design project benefits from both. Listening
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Springer Geometries of Anamorphic Illusions
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£85.49
Hirmer Verlag The Reconstruction of Berlin Palace: Façade,
Book SynopsisThe reconstructed Berliner Schloss in the heart of the German capital is both a monument of Baroque architecture and a vital new cultural building in the city. The art history, architecture and sculpture of the palace’s masterful façades by Andreas Schlüter are brought to life here in words and pictures. The Berliner Schloss marks the reinstatement of the point of reference for the urban plan of the historical centre of the capital: through the Baroque masterpiece by Andreas Schlüter the boulevard Unter den Linden and the historic buildings of the Lustgarten acquire once more a meaningful interconnection. Most of the authors are involved in this major project. They explain with the help of the impressive photographs by Leo Seidel the fascinating construction process, the imagery of the Baroque sandstone façade, the technology and the craftsmanship behind its reconstruction as well as the architectural concept of the building.
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JOVIS Verlag Landschaftlichkeit als Architekturidee
Book SynopsisBilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) The concept of landscape-ness is gaining increasing importance in architecture not least due to the rising threat of climate change. Based on international examples, Margitta Buchert analyzes the potential of architecture for dealing with contemporary challenges, including socio-cultural transformations and questions of lifeworld orientations within the tensions of global networking and local exposure—between natural space and urban space. Which architectural understandings and characteristics flow into architecture and urban projects by introducing the concept of landscape-ness? Which spatial articulating qualities are emphasized? And what sensibilities and capacities are enriched? Dimensions of landscape as nature—however, shaped and reshaped by humans—are in focus, as well as the connection between aesthetics, architecture, ecology, and the city.
£21.00
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection China and Gardens of Europe of the Eighteenth
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection The Rustic Style
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Johns Hopkins University Press Preserved
Book SynopsisA spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities.Funeral homesthose grand, aging mansions repurposed into spaces for embalming, merchandising, funeral services, and housing for the funeral director and their familyare immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century''s expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities.Across the United States, Lampros traces the funeral industry''s early twentieth-century exodus from gloomy downtown undertaking parlors to outmoded Victorian houses in residential districts. As savvy retailers and accidental preservationists, funeral directors refashioned the interiors into sumptuous retail settings that stimulated consumer
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Richard Woods (1715-1793): Master of the Pleasure
Book SynopsisFirst full biography of Richard Woods, the landscape designer, examining his work and restoring him to the attention he merits. A contemporary of the famous landscape designer "Capability" Brown, Richard Woods has never received the recognition he deserves: in contrast to Brown, he emphasised the pleasure ground and kitchen garden, with a more pronounced use of flowers than was general among the landscape improvers of his time. He liked variety and incident in his plans and, where he was employed on a larger scale, the encroachment of the pleasure ground into the park created the Woodsian "pleasure park". In this important work of detection and biography, Fiona Cowell analyses his designs, and explores his activities as a plantsman, a determined amateur architect and a farmer. In particular, she showsthe difficulties he found as a Catholic living in penal times, examining the difficulties encountered by both Woods and his Catholic patrons, and placing the man and his work in their wider social and economic context. Unjustly neglected in the past, he is here given his rightful place among the creators of the English landscape style.Trade ReviewA magisterial study. [includes] an in-depth analysis of Woods's techniques and a detailed gazetteer of his gardens. [...] The book is beautifully produced and a pleasure to handle. * HISTORIC GARDENS REVIEW *This is an important study, as it presents the demise of both the eighteenth-century Arcadian Garden and also Capability Brown's ideal parkscapes. [...] Fiona Cowell's text is extremely scholarly, and the analytical narrative is accompanied by an informative gazetteer of all Woods' commissions. [A] ground-breaking study. * LANDSCAPE HISTORY *This study uniquely places Woods in the social and economic constraints of the eighteenth century as a Catholic living in Protestant England. [...] This book will interest all who are interested in the development of the English landscape at a pivotal point in British history. * CURRENT BOOKS ON GARDENING AND BOTANY *An excellent study. [...] Cowell's learned book is particularly informative about the nuts and bolts of landscape gardening in eighteenth-century England. * TLS *Impeccably researched. Fiona Cowell has done a sterling job of rehabilitating [Woods] and his oeuvre. * HISTORIC HOUSE *[This] excellent book does justice to one who has for too long been considered a mere imitator of his pre-eminent rival. The Boydell Press is also to be congratulated on this, the second book in its enterprising 'garden and landscape history' series, under the general editorship of Tom Williamson. * COUNTRY LIFE *Table of ContentsForeword Woods in Context Influences Improver, Farmer, Surveyor Plants, Planting Schemes and Plant Supplies Woods the Aspiring Architect The Woods Landscape Labour Demand, Supply and Organisation in the Eighteenth-Century Garden Conclusion Gazetteer Bibliography
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Modern Art Press Artists Making Landscapes in Post-war Britain
Book SynopsisAn unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the post-war period. Drawing together work from painters and photographers—many of them women—Garlake expands the conventional view of the genre to include both rural and urban subjects. In doing so, she brilliantly places the work within the context of physical changes wrought by postwar society, as the British countryside reverted to civilian use, cities were built, and artists adjusted to the landscape as a site of both tradition and modernity. Carefully researched and subtly argued, this book will deepen our understanding of a fascinating period in British art history.Distributed for Modern Art PressTable of ContentsForeword Introduction Ch. 1 Landscape Painting in Post-war Culture Ch. 2 Landscape in the Post-war Art World Ch. 3 Engaging with Landscape: Phenomenology, Place and Space Ch. 4 Reshaping Rural Britain Ch. 5 Cities Reimagined Ch. 6 Landscapes for People Ch. 7 Places of the Mind Bibliography Index
£42.75
Artisan Publishers Food Forward Garden Design
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£22.50
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
£29.71
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
£34.19
Taylor & Francis Socially Restorative Urbanism The theory process and practice of Experiemics
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd A Guide to Building Natural Swimming Pools
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Espalier Fruit Trees For Wall Hedge and Pergola
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£25.19
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
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
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Technology and the Garden Dumbarton Oaks
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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
D Giles Ltd America's Eden: Newport Landscapes through the
Book SynopsisIn 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the “Eden of America” in the First Geography of the United States. In the nineteenth century landscape architects such as Frederick Law Olmsted created dramatic gardens by the sea for his wealthy clients, and artists from John Frederick Kensett to Henry James and Thornton Wilder celebrated the city as a verdant paradise in painting, poetry, and prose. America’s Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages builds on the city’s iconic reputation as a centuries-old paradise, and establishes Newport as a cultural landscape of national significance. The comprehensive history from European settlement to the present day is illustrated by a treasure trove of rare period maps, paintings and photographs by prominent artists, and drawings and sketches by leading designers. Ten chapters discuss topography, geology, and climate; the history of the city from the early days of colonial New England, through the Gilded Age estates, to the 21st century. A chapter on Living Legends emphasises the importance of Newport’s historic trees. The book serves as a critical resource guide encompassing landscape architecture, fine art, tree and plant propagation, and the conservation of natural sites. A rich story of art, history, design and horticulture awaits readers among the gardens, gazebos and trees of Newport.Table of ContentsForeword; Acknowledgments; A Note from the Author; Introduction: America’s Eden; A Land Blessed and Cursed: Topography, Geology, and Climate; From Eden to Eternity: An Historical Overview; Paradise of New England: The Colonial Era and Early Republic; Case Study Seeing, or Recording the Land: Changing Perspectives on Mapping Newport; Genteel Landscapes: Romantic Villas and Rustic Views; Case Study The Horticulturists; Case Study Touro Park; The Art of Scenery: Design in the Age of the Picturesque; The Gilded Age: Estate Gardens and Urban Forests; Case Study Blooming Beauty; Floral Culture and Fashion during the Gilded Age; Working Landscapes: Gardeners and Greenhouses; The Age of the New: Modernism in the Landscape; Living Legend: Newport’s Historic Trees; Case Study The Sentinels of Eden; An Arborist’s View of Newport and Its Trees; Eden Preserved and Propagated; Conclusion: The Legacy and Future of Eden; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Picture Credits.
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Lars Muller Publishers Mutation and Morphosis: Landscape as Aggregate
Book SynopsisAnyone viewing what we call a “landscape” from a distance will recognise that it is an artefact, a habitat created by humans as part of our built environment. Designing this realm carefully is a discipline that is taking on increasing importance today. Günter Vogt, with his practice in VOGT Landscape Architects and as a professor at ETH Zürich, has developed a set of tools and a working method that incorporate all the different dimensions of the human-designed environment, from the large-scale landscape to the small-scale urban public space. 'Mutation and Morphosis' looks at all the many aspects involved in the collective process of designing and shaping landscapes, from planning to implementation. The model as a tool and the collection as a driving force are illustrated on the basis of an astonishing variety of topics. In theoretical discussions and the examination of detailed dossiers of facts on the ground, a trajectory is traced: from the emergence of new landscapes as a result of climate change to the migration of the wolf to Central Europe, from the impact of invasive plants to the study of geological formation processes. The panorama that unfolds gives us insights into the broad context that landscape architects must consider in their work, exemplified by the outstanding projects realized by VOGT.
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Theory of Gardens
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Gardens of Los Poblanos
Book SynopsisLandscape designer and garden writer Judith Phillips recounts the history of the world-renowned gardens of Los Poblanos and demonstrates the ways in which the farm’s owners, designers, and gardeners have influenced the evolution of this unique landscape.Trade ReviewThe Gardens of Los Poblanos tells a fascinating story of the evolution and stewardship of a family estate that has evolved to embody sustainable landscape design, the cultivation of local foods, and the development of a thriving family business."—Gina Chorover, College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona"Now more than ever before, our attention to the grace of plants and gardens--what they teach us about the past and implore us to learn for the future--is necessary. In her latest book, Phillips brings us on a journey that beautifully weaves together nature, culture, and cultivation."—Laura Paskus, author of At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate"What a perfect combination: New Mexico's foremost garden-design author takes on one of the state's most treasured living historic landscapes, Los Poblanos Ranch. Anyone interested in landscape garden design or the creative culture of the Southwest will savor the many rich illustrations, the fascinating historical vignettes, and, above all, Phillips's knowledge and wisdom about planting in our semiarid environment."—Chris Wilson, author of The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional TraditionTable of ContentsForewordMatt RembeAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Story of Los PoblanosChapter One. The History of Gardening in the Rio Grande ValleyChapter Two. The Country Place Era of American LandscapesChapter Three. The Development of the Simms Country Place at Los Poblanos, 1932-1964Chapter Four. The Private Family Gardens of Los Poblanos and the Return to Community, 1965-2004Chapter Five. A New Preservation Model: Living History, 2005-2014Chapter Six. Focus on the Future, 2015-2020Chapter Seven. Coming Full Circle, 2021 and OnwardGlossary
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Charles Bridgeman (c.1685-1738): A Landscape
Book SynopsisAn examination of the garden plans of eighteenth-century landscape architect Charles Bridgeman, shedding light on his artistic vision and contributions to English garden history. Charles Bridgeman was a popular and highly successful landscape architect in the first part of the eighteenth century. He was Royal Gardener to George I and George II, designing the gardens at Kensington Palace for them and working for many of the ruling Whig elite, including Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. His landscapes were audacious and monumental, but he is barely known outside the world of academic garden history; most of his gardens have disappeared, changed out of all recognition to chime with later tastes shaped by Lancelot Brown's vision of a more "natural" landscape, or buried under housing developments and golf courses; and there is little archaeological or written evidence of his work. This book aims to redress this injustice and rescue his legacy. It draws on the only significant body of evidence which survived him: an extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans. Close examination of them reveals an artistic vision heavily influenced by the late seventeenth-century geometric garden but deeply rooted in the "genius of the place", and working methods that include a proto-business model which prefigures the gentleman improvers who followed him. The volume brings him from obscurity to demonstrate his skill as an artist, a manipulator of space on a grand scale and a consummate practitioner, a deserved member of the canon of famous and revered English landscape gardeners.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Who was Charles Bridgeman? 2. Towards a reliable corpus 3. A revised catalogue 4. Reading the plans 5. The art-historical context revisited 6. The 'ingenious Mr Bridgeman' 7. Building a landscape 8. A commercial enterprise Conclusion Appendix I A summary of Willis's catalogue from Charles Bridgeman and the EnglishLandscape Garden Appendix II A Revised Catalogue Appendix III Bridgeman's projects by year Appendix IV Bridgeman's income Gazetteer of Bridgeman sites Glossary Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Haney D Architecture and the Nazi Cultural
Book SynopsisThis book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural landscape.For the Nazi regime, cultural landscape was indeed a heritage resource, but it was much more than that: cultural landscape was the nation. The project of Nazi racial purification and cultural renewal demanded the physical reshaping and reconceptualization of the existing environment to create the so-called new Nazi cultural landscape. One of the most important components of this was a set of monumental sites thought to embody blood and soil beliefs through the harmonious synthesis of architecture and landscape. This special group of landscape-bound architectural complexes was interconnected by the new autobahn highway system, itself thought to be a monumental work embedded in nature. Behind this intentionally aestheticized view of the nation as cultural landscape lay the all-pervasive system of deception and violence that characterized the emerging totalitarian state.This is the first historical study to consider the importance of these monumental sites together with the autobahn as evidence of key Nazi cultural and geographic strategies during the pre-war years. This book concludes by examining racial and nationalistic themes underlying cultural landscape concepts today, against this historic background.Trade Review"The formal power of buildings in Nazi Germany has tended to focus historical attention upon the architecture at the expense of understanding the larger sites in which they were located. In this fascinating account, Haney forensically examines a range of ‘cultural landscapes’ each conceived to express an aspect of Nazi mythology."Professor Murray Fraser, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London"This meticulously researched book alerts us to the geopolitical underpinnings of the National Socialist cultural landscape. Never one to bore his audience, David Haney will transform the way in which historians and general readers understand Nazi architectural production."Associate Professor Ian Klinke, School of Geography and the Environment, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. From Ratzel to Hitler: Biographical Influences, Geopolitics, and Cultural Landscape; 2. Veins of the Nation: The Nazi Autobahn as Geopolitical Propaganda Device; 3. From Sports Park to Sacred Grove: Embedding the Mass Spectacle in the German Landscape; 4. "Secret Societies Established in Broad Daylight": Symbolic Fortifications as Nazi Institutional Sites; 5. Venerating the Blood-Soaked Soil: Monumentalized Landscapes as Memorials; Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Canopy Cities
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential role of trees and forests in cities and examines the creative approaches cities around the world are taking to protect trees and expand their urban forests.Moving beyond the view that trees are luxuries and therefore non-essential to the life of a city, the book examines urban tree policies and approaches that foster tree protection, including tree codes and bylaws, and calls for greater community engagement to preserve this important facet of urban life. Through an international range of examples and case studies, featuring cities in the United States, Canada, Singapore, the Netherlands, Australia, France, New Zealand, Mexico, Sierra Leone, and the United Kingdom. The book offers best practice examples where trees have been further integrated into the fabric of urban planning and design, including forested towers, interior rainforests, tiny urban forests, and metropolitan forests.Written by a leading authoriTable of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgmentsPreface: Raised in an Urban ForestChapter 1: Why Are Trees So Important in Cities?: Urban Life Under a Sheltered CanopyChapter 2: Tree City Visions and AspirationsChapter 3: Tree Codes and Regulating TreesChapter 4: Managing the Urban ForestChapter 5: Forest Architecture and DesignChapter 6: Tree Equity: Towards a Just Urban CanopyChapter 7: It Takes a Wooded VillageChapter 8: Trees Not CarsChapter 9: New Ideas for Urban Tree ConservationChapter 10: Conclusions: The Future of Canopy CitiesBibliographyIndex
£36.99
Harvard University Press Pairs 02
Book SynopsisPairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) dedicated to conversations about design that are down to earth and unguarded. Each issue is conceptualized by an editorial team—including GSD students—that proposes guests and objects to be in dialogue with one another. Pairs is non-thematic, meant instead for provisional thoughts and ideas in progress. Each issue seeks to organize diverse threads and concerns that are perceived to be relevant to our moment. Thus, Pairs creates a space for understanding and a greater degree of exchange, both between the design disciplines and with a larger public.Pairs 02 features conversations with Emmanuel Admassu, Rashid bin Shabib, Irma Boom, Gareth Doherty, David Foster, David Hartt, Sara Hendren, Jane Hutton, Sharon Johnston, Zachary Mollica, Lyndon Neri, Malkit Shoshan, Jorge Silvetti, John R. Stilgoe, Paola Sturla, Sumayya Vally, Terry Tempest Williams, and Kathryn Yusoff. Contributors include the editors and Emma Lewis, Elisa Ngan, and Maxwell Smith-Holmes.
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism
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Vendome Press An Entertaining Life
Book SynopsisBorn and raised in Italy, Paolo Moschino came to London at the age of 23. He now leads the award-winning firm Paolo Moschino Ltd, an international brand encompassing interior design, furnishings and fabric. With three interior design showrooms in London, the firm continues to evolve. Belgian-born Philip Vergeylen helms the company's Design Studio, and is now recognized around the world as a leading voice in luxury interior design. Bunny Williams (Foreword) is a world-renowned interior and garden designer, and author of several books. She divides her time between Connecticut and Punta Cana.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Landscape and Infrastructure
Book SynopsisMargaret Birney Vickery is a lecturer in the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Department of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Buildings for Bluestockings: The Architecture and Social History of Women's Colleges in Late Victorian England, and (Translations) Architecture/Art Works of Sigrid Miller Pollin.Trade ReviewIn this original and timely book, Vickery establishes the continued and vital importance of art history in contemporary landscape and architectural design. Landscape and Infrastructure traces the roots and uncovers the significance of the productive activities and elements of pastoral traditions in art and designed landscapes, clearly documenting the persistent and sometimes difficult relationship of aesthetics and production in Western art. Art history is rarely as engaging for the general public to read, or as important for designers to understand. -- Ethan Carr * Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Infrastructure, Landscape and the Pastoral Paradigm: A Tale of Two Projects 1. Landscape Painting and the Productive Pastoral Tradition 2. The Eighteenth-Century English Landscape: The Classic Pastoral and its Productivity 3. The Industrial Revolution and its Intrusion on the Landscape 4. A Growing Divide: Landscape and Infrastructure in Victorian Britain 5. Progress and Nature in the American Landscape 6. Infrastructure and Landscape in Early-Twentieth-Century England and America 7. Questioning the Infrastructural Paradigm in the late Twentieth Century 8. Twenty-First-Century Power Generation: An Invitation to the Public 9. Clean Water and Recreation: New Approaches to Water Treatment Plants 10. Food, Community, and the Productive Landscape Conclusion: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century Bibliography Index
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Monacelli Press Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside
Book SynopsisAn in-depth exploration of the pathbreaking works of Nancy Holt, a pioneering practitioner of Conceptual and Land Art Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside takes a journey through the artist’s key experiments in visual art presenting works never seen before, commissioning new critical thinking, and amplifying knowledge of an artist whose ideas are fundamental to how we define art today. Over the course of fifty years, Nancy Holt’s rich output spanned concrete poetry, audio, film and video, photography, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, and public sculpture. Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside details her unique and significant contributions, situating an important female voice within the narratives of land art and conceptual art. Initiating her art practice in 1966 with concrete poetry, she soon expanded her ideas into other media and the landscape. Through each of the mediums she worked in, Holt explored how we understand our place in the world by investigating perception and site within and outside of traditional museum contexts. In the mid-1970s Holt completed her most influential earthwork, Sun Tunnels, an artwork central to the definition of land art. Rigorous documentation of Holt’s work, as well as contributions by key scholars, previously unseen photoworks and drawings, and a revealing, never-before-published “self-interview” by the artist bring her work into far fuller context. Developed in close consultation with Holt/Smithson Foundation, an artist endowed organization dedicated to preserving and extending the work of Nancy Holt and her husband Robert Smithson, this expansive publication will serve as a major contribution to the critical ongoing research into the art of our time. This new book is published to coincide with an exhibition anchored at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden, and traveling to MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and further internationally.Trade Review'There’s something for everyone, including poems, spoken-word video, films and conceptual work.' - Aesthetica 'The essays and discussion by other writers in this book add thoughtful consideration of theory and practice surrounding Holt’s work. But it is Holt’s own writing, in matter of fact language stripped to essential thought, feeling and material making, that brings the reader closer to the inside and outside of her projects.' - Dr. Beth Williamson, The Art Newspaper
£29.75
Cambridge University Press Gardens of the Roman Empire
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Cambridge University Press Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with the built environment. His book draws upon the close study of literary and visual sources to prove that early modern audiences paid sustained attention to the multisensory experience of the buildings and cities in which they lived. Through reconstructing the Renaissance understanding of the senses, we can better gauge how constant interaction with the built environment shaped daily practices and contributed to new forms of understanding. Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance offers a stimulating new approach to the study of Renaissance architecture and urbanism as a kind of ''experiential trigger'' that shaped ways of bothTable of ContentsPreface; 1. A sense of renaissance architecture; 2. Architecture and the imagination; 3. Movement in the built environment; 4. The building of devotion; 5. Sensations of health and illness; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments.
£75.00
Independently Published Picture Book of Landscapes: For Seniors with Dementia [Full Spread Panorama Picture Books]
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Independently Published Picture Book of Sunsets: For Seniors with Dementia [Full Spread Panorama Picture Books]
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K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre & H. Irving Botanical Gardens A Natural Balance: The K.C. Irving Environmental
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RIBA Publishing From Idea to Site: A project guide to creating
Book SynopsisFrom Idea to Site explores how to improve the working practices of landscape architects and therefore the quality of the design and management of our external environment. Based around the life of a project, this book puts innovation and technology at the forefront: looking at how they are changing the profession, and how these innovations might be used in the professional arena. The book also shows how landscape architecture can add to the quality and sustainability of varying construction projects, and how to make the best use of a landscape architect’s skills. Including in-depth illustrated case studies from UK and international landscape schemes, the book looks at the often challenging process of getting projects to completion – ‘from idea to site’. Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 – What sort of landscape architect am I?Chapter 2 - Briefing and Project PlanningChapter 3 – Designing the SchemeChapter 4 – Project Managing the SiteChapter 5 - Maintaining the SiteChapter 6 – Feedback and EvaluationAppendix
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Spinifex Press Travelling Alone /Ruby Camp
Book SynopsisRuby Camp: A Snowy River Series follows the ridges and valleys of an extraordinary wilderness area, its life affected by humans. From the long habitations of Indigenous peoples, to the white settlers and this solitary woman exploring the depths of land and self. Travelling Alone Together: In the footsteps of Edward John Eyre is a meditation on three journeys across the Nullabor. Landscape and time are interwoven as Miriel Lenore explores our myths.
£11.35
Gardens Reflections
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Pointed Leaf Press Bloom: The Luminous Gardens of Frederico Azevedo
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Non–Visual Landscape – Landscape Planning for
Book SynopsisLandscape is the impression given by a place. The five senses construct five landscapes: there is not only the visual landscape but also non-visual landscapes such as smell, touch, sound ("sound-scape"), and taste landscapes. The visual landscape is experienced by most people, while the remaining four non-visual landscapes mainly construct the non-visual world of the blind. In their innovative study, Angeliki Koskina and Nikolas Hasanagas explore this non-visual world on an empirical basis. What land-scapes do blind people prefer? Is the natural or built environment most attractive for them? How differently do blind people perceive the landscape" compared to sighted people? Which feelings does the landscape evoke in blind people, and which values do they attach to these feelings? How satisfied do they feel with the urban or natural landscapes where they live? Spatial Planning and Land-scape Design for handicapped people constitute a much-discussed academic and social issue. Koskina's and Hasanagas' study in the Anthropology of Senses and in Landscape Sociology can be used as an aid tool for planners and designers as well as researchers in various areas such as Architecture, Medicine, Social Sciences, or Psychology.Table of ContentsIndex of Diagrams, Figures, and Tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Results and Discussion 4. Conclusions, Suggestions, and Limitations Summary References Appendix
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Edition Axel Menges Martha Schwartz Partners: Landscape Art and
Book SynopsisSituated at the intersection of public realm, urban design and site specific art, Martha Schwartz Partners has over 35 years of experience designing and implementing installations, gardens, civic plazas, parks, institutional landscapes, corporate headquarters, master plans, and urban regeneration projects. MSP works with city leaders, planners and builders at a strategic level so as to advocate for the inclusion of the public landscape as a means to achieve environmental, economic and social sustainability. With offices in London, New York and Shanghai, the practice is engaged in projects and consultation around the globe and has to date worked on projects in over 20 countries and five continents. This monograph is the first publication to document 55 built projects and a selection of master plans by this internationally acclaimed practice.
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Edition Axel Menges Selected Works/Ausgewahlte Arbeiten 19712023
Book SynopsisIn his note to the edition of Neue Landschafts-architektur/New Landscape Architecture published 1994 in England as Landscape as Inspiration, Geoffrey Jellicoe compares my drawing considerations with the works of Paul Klee. What at first sounds a bit highfalutin is correct insofar as I do not move exclusively in the banal everyday and functional space in everything I draw, design and realize, but always reflect second and third surrealities as well. Art does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible", how Paul Klee formulated the process. Every viewer and reader could rightly ask the question: What do such expressions of art have to do with every-day architecture? I think: a great deal. And that is because all architectural problems and their solutions are multi-layered. Just like pure works of art. Every building summarizes and redefines its architectural, urban, village and landscape surroundings. Intentionally or unintentionally, exaggerated or restrained, each building can look like a meteorite or bomb strike, an inconspicuous remark or a beautification attack. I am interested in the past, the present and the future of an urban or landscape site. My view wants to integrate archaeological working methods just as much as functional fulfilments and imaginative-surreal, sometimes utopian efflorescence. I would never go so far as to formulate: Architecture is the necessary, and art is the unnecessary. Of course, every artist-architect who embarks on this complicated-complex path will have difficulties with the banal, seemingly superficial everyday reality in nature, the landscape and the city. It is therefore not surprising that I have only been able to realize a few architectural and visual productions and that, in the course of the last decades, I have been increasingly pushed into the areas of stage design and other design areas. At the moment, thanks to the ecological movement, hardly anyone is interested in the connection between art and architecture. More important are sustainability and zeroenergy houses in which the windows can hardly be opened. Could it be that building culture, indeed the whole of culture, will soon sink into green primeval forests and huge wetland biotopes? Or will foreign, warlike peoples destroy or occupy our cities and landscapes and cultivate them anew?
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