Description
Book SynopsisWeatering and Durability in Landscape Architecture provides authoritative guidelines to weathering, durability, and physical changes in the designed landscape over time.
* Provides innovative weathering strategies illustrated with case studies.
* Includes information on completed landscapes with data and commentary on maintenance and durability.
* Provides the personal weathering and durability strategies of leading experts.
Table of ContentsPreface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Part One Design for Weathering and Durability 1
Chapter 1 Time and the Built Landscape 3
Chapter 2 Aspects of Permanence 25
Chapter 3 Design Approaches 41
Part Two Landscape Architectural Design Case Studies 59
Chapter 4 Case Studies 61
Case Study A Expiration Date 64
Vintondale Colliery Park Reclamation, Vintondale, Pennsylvania
Julie Bargmann
Case Study B Constructing Memory 80
A Memorial to Rosie the Riveter, Richmond, California
yl Barton
Case Study C The Persistence of Spatial Structure 96
Mid-America All-Indian Center, Wichita, Kansas
Edward L. Blake, Jr.
Case Study D The Readjusted Scales of Duration 112
A Private Summer Retreat, Western Maine
Michael Blier
Case Study E Working Materials 133
Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana
Eric Fulford and Ann Reed
Case Study F Dimensions of Process and Change 154
Crissy Field: A Tidal Marsh Restoration, San Francisco, California
Mary Margaret Jones
Case Study G Aesthetics of Cultural Weathering 174
Moyland Elementary School Playground, Hartford, Connecticut; Courtyard and Meditation Labyrinth, Chester, Connecticut
Mikyoung Kim
Case Study H Urban Legacies 192
Cook + Phillip Park, Sydney, Australia
Elizabeth Mossop
Case Study I Evolving Economies 211
Casa Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico
Margie Ruddick
Case Study J Maturing Practices 226
Advantica Plaza and Park, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Peter Lindsay Schaudt
Case Study K Perpetual Material 243
Aluminum Garden, New York, New York
Ken Smith
Case Study L Compressed 260
“Compressed”: A Temporary Landscape Installation, Cazenovia, New York
H. Keith Wagner
Part Three Afterword 277
Chapter 5 Achievements and Challenges 279
Bibliography and Further Reading 287
Index 291
