Main entry:

Way, Thaïsa, 1960- author.

Title & Author:

The landscape architecture of Richard Haag : from modern space to urban ecological design / Thaïsa Way ; foreword by Marc Treib ; afterword by Laurie Olin.

Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]

Description:

xvi, 232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.
Foreword / Marc Treib -- 1. Growing up in a Kentucky Landscape -- 2. A Landscape Education -- 3. "Keep Your Eyes Open!" -- 4. Designing the Home Garden in California -- 5. A Teacher's Teacher -- 6. Gardens of the Pacific Northwest -- 7. From Modernism to Urbanism -- 8. The Art of the Landform as Landscape Architecture -- 9. "It Was a Gas!" at Gas Works Park -- 10. Land Sculpting and Ecological Design at the Bloedel Reserve -- 11. The Legacy -- Afterword: An appreciation of Richard Haag, an inspiration and mentor to us all / Laurie Olin.

Summary:

Best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, Richard Haag reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, he founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington. His innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design, which encourages thinking beyond the boundaries of gardens and parks to consider the broader roles that landscapes play within urban ecosystems, such as storm water drainage and wildlife habitat. Gas Works Park is studied in every survey of twentieth-century landscape architecture as a modern work that challenged the tenets of modernism by engaging a toxic site and celebrating an industrial past. Haag's work with ecologists and soil scientists in his landscape remediation and reclamation projects opened new areas of inquiry into the adaptive reuse of postindustrial sites. Thaïsa Way places Haag's work within the context of changes in the practice of landscape architecture over the past five decades in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. The book should be of interest to specialists as well as to readers who are interested in the changes in urban landscapes inspired by Haag's work. -- From back cover.

ISBN:

9780295994482 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
0295994487 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
9780295746463 (soft cover)
0295746467 (soft cover)

Subject:

Haag, Richard.
Landscape architects United States Biography.
Landscape architecture United States.
Architectes paysagistes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis.
Landscape architects.
Landscape architecture.
United States.
Landscape architecture United States 1950-2000.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
collective biographies.

Added entries:

Treib, Marc, writer of foreword.
Olin, Laurie, writer of afterword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290339
Call No.: BIB 233335
Status: Available