Landscape architecture and design Books
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
Amberley Publishing Great Parks Great Designers
Book SynopsisRenowned parks expert Paul Rabbitts looks at the greatest designers and their finest work. This is an essential read for anybody interested in the great designers of our greatest parks.
£999.99
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
£39.90
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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£54.00
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
£23.79
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.
£50.15
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?
£32.40
DOM Publishers The Nuclear Dream: The Hidden World of Atomic
Book SynopsisSince 2011, the German government has been implementing a policy phasing out nuclear power. Over a period of seven years, Bernhard Ludewig photographed the country’s atomic landscape and history, keeping a visual record of the buildings and the work performed in them. The images, collected here, create a unique panorama of usually inaccessible spaces. On show are the plants’ operations – processes including the opening of the reactor and the loading of Castor containers for transport – and interiors, such as control rooms and cooling towers. The book follows the journey of uranium from enrichment through reprocessing to final storage, and shows research spanning from Otto Hahn’s discovery of fission to thorium and breeder reactor prototypes. In total 55 sites are represented, and images of research reactors, training facilities, and Chernobyl’s sarcophagus provide a further look behind closed door. The Nuclear Dream offers an insight into a disappearing world whose rooms and technology often appear sacred. It is a fitting tribute to an era of boundless energy – one whose blue glow captured a generation and proclaimed the start of a new era.
£73.80
DOM Publishers Drawing for Landscape Architects 2:: Perspective
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles and analyses the role of the perspective within the history and evolution of landscape architecture and design. The first part of the book examines perspectives produced at key stages of the profession’s history, beginning with their origins in Renaissance art, and moving chronologically into present day practice. It charts how both linear and atmospheric perspective helped visualize imagined landscapes, first in paintings, later real spaces, and expanding from private gardens into designs for public spaces. Used both as a visualization tool preceding construction and as a persuasive tool for publicity and prestige afterwards, it has always played a role in influencing the understanding of landscape. Shown through key images, perspective visualization has resonated between artistic influences, media, and technology, yet its role has evolved differently than it has in architecture. In distinct contrast, landscape perspectives must convey positive experiences of being outdoors while communicating key design ideas, forms, and materials. The second part of the book is an instructional chapter, which outlines and describes the perspective’s key characteristics and variables. Perspective types are explained in an easy to understand way. Step by step procedures for using grids, constructing spaces, and fine-tuning pictorial composition, encourage readers to construct perspectives themselves. The third part of the book is an inspirational chapter with many diverse examples from international landscape architecture offices and practitioners. This extensive gallery showcases the perspective’s remarkable versatility as a stage for projects of all sizes, as well as its capacity for storytelling and expression. The many eye-catching images illustrate the perspective’s power in the digital age. With its focus on history, theory and practical aspects of the perspective and its specific role in landscape architecture, the book is an invaluable reference for researchers, students, and designers.
£58.50
Edition Axel Menges Gardens in Suzhou
Book SynopsisText in English and German. The architect and photographer Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard, who is professor of design principles at the Muthesius-Hochschule in Kiel, has chosen seven of the most beautiful gardens and photographed them during several trips, always in spring, in other words at a time when the garden architecture has not yet been overwhelmed by the vegetation, and so can make the best possible impact in the image. His trained eye for the way architecture is embedded in the landscape means that he has found striking and convincing images, steeped in the harmony of the gardens.
£41.40
Edition Axel Menges Parks and Gardens in Greater Paris
Book SynopsisFor over 350 years Parisians have designed and preserved phenomenal public outdoor spaces. In this book Jacqueline Widmar Stewart follows the fine-spun threads of the parklands tapestry in greater Paris. Identification of various hallmarks of premiere park-building eras imbues individual parks with multi-dimensional qualities and allows readers to experience these grand green places in the way Parisians do. Multiple layers of elements and themes are woven into the fabric of French parks. Reaching back as far as its Roman heritage, vestiges of the history of Paris are apparent in virtually all its parks, regardless of size. Even the balanced distribution of green spaces throughout the city reflects a major 19th-century city-planning epoch and is still carried forward in current park development. A number of French parks and gardens from the 17th century initially belonged to royal estates but now welcome public visits -- it should be noted that the Tuileries first opened its gates to the public in 1667. Thoughtfully designed and meticulously tailored to needs of the time, others have covered unsightly urban blight with splendor, and have converted industrial sites to recreational usage while maintaining cultural ties with the past. Many marvels beckon all who enter Paris' magical spheres: a several-kilometer-long landscaped promenade above busy streets; a modern garden suspended above a major train station; the Parc de la Villette with its grand red architectural curiosities of form and motion; a midisland allée in the Seine; newly created marshlands now home to mallard ducklings; clouds of fragrance from rose-descendants of Josephine Bonaparte's original collection; not one, but two gardens of the quintessential sculptor, Auguste Rodin.
£50.92
Roli Books Pvt Ltd Gardens of Delight
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ListLab New Gateway for Venice
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ListLab Camp and the City: Territories of Extraction
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£26.60
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Landscape Planning Sustainable Practices Design and Urban Development
£113.59
MIT Press Ornaments of the Metropolis Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture The MIT Press
Book SynopsisVariations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life.For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his sociobiography of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Frankfurt School and the intellectual milieu of Walter Benjamin, is best known for his writings on cinema and the philosophy of history. Reeh examines Kracauer's lesser-known early work, much of it written for the trendsetting newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in the 1920s and early 1930s, and analyzes Kracauer's continuing reflections on modern urban life, through the pivotal idea of ornament. Kracauer d
£34.40
Project for Public Spaces, Inc How to Turn a Place Around
£25.00
Church House Publishing The Churchyards Handbook
Book SynopsisThe 4th edition of this handbook gives practical advice on all aspects of churchyard management. It explains the law relating to churchyards and offers constructive guidance on the difficult subjects of memorials and cremated remains.
£15.93
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. Nature as Model Salomon de Caus and Early SeventeenthCentury Landscape Design Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
Book SynopsisLuke Morgan is Lecturer in the Department of Theory of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Trade Review"Luke Morgan bracingly tests conjecture and assertion against evidence and a shrewdly developed chronology; he turns a coolly evaluative eye to the kinds of interpretive assumptions underlying previous accounts; and he develops a fresh picture of Caus, his career, and the intellectual culture of garden-making in the period." * Michael Leslie, Rhodes College *"A volume of interest not only to specialists in landscape history but also to all those concerned with the cultural history of the period." * Renaissance Quarterly *
£55.10
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment 7 Cultural Histories
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University of Tennessee Press Exploring Everyday Landscapes Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture VII Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture Volume 7
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Michael E. Gerber Companies The EMyth Landscape Contractor
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LEGARE STREET PR Gardens for Small Country Houses
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LEGARE STREET PR Gardens for Small Country Houses
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LEGARE STREET PR Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
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LEGARE STREET PR Colour Scheme in the Flower Garden
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LEGARE STREET PR Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
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LEGARE STREET PR Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
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LEGARE STREET PR Frederick Law Olmsted
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LEGARE STREET PR Frederick Law Olmsted
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LEGARE STREET PR Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday
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LEGARE STREET PR Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday
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Legare Street Press Landscape Architecture
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Legare Street Press Landscape Architecture
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Legare Street Press Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners Volume 25
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Legare Street Press A A Description of Estates on the Community Lands About the Mayfield Country Club
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Legare Street Press Engravings With Descriptions By J.C. Loudon Illustrative of the Difference Between the Modern Style of Rural Architecture and the Improvement of Scenery and That Displayed in a Treatise On Country Residences and Practised by Mr. Loudon
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Legare Street Press Suggestions for a System of Parks and Parkways for the City of Minneapolis
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