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Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. Landscape architect Christophe Girot is the featured personage in this volume. Girot writes about his experiences growing up in England and France, and how the juxtaposition of the(...)
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Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. Landscape architect Christophe Girot is the featured personage in this volume. Girot writes about his experiences growing up in England and France, and how the juxtaposition of the(...)
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June 2023
June 2023
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Christophe Girot: Beyond the edge
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Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. Landscape architect Christophe Girot is the featured personage in this volume. Girot writes about his experiences growing up in England and France, and how the juxtaposition of the regions’ landscapes already happened in his mind, long before he had ever heard or studied anything about it. These contradictory aesthetic and cultural values drove him to study landscape architecture someplace else entirely – Berkeley, California, in the 1980s – where he found his own values challenged anew.
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Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. Landscape architect Christophe Girot is the featured personage in this volume. Girot writes about his experiences growing up in England and France, and how the juxtaposition of the regions’ landscapes already happened in his mind, long before he had ever heard or studied anything about it. These contradictory aesthetic and cultural values drove him to study landscape architecture someplace else entirely – Berkeley, California, in the 1980s – where he found his own values challenged anew.
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With the first living laboratory created on Alnarp Campus in the 1980s, ''Woods go urban'' delves into the three innovative landscape laboratories in Sweden. Explaining the hands-on design approach of integrating natural landscapes into urban environments, this book includes photographs, and illustrations, as well as detailed insights and knowledge from fourteen landscape(...)
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With the first living laboratory created on Alnarp Campus in the 1980s, ''Woods go urban'' delves into the three innovative landscape laboratories in Sweden. Explaining the hands-on design approach of integrating natural landscapes into urban environments, this book includes photographs, and illustrations, as well as detailed insights and knowledge from fourteen landscape(...)
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July 2023
July 2023
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Woods go urban: Landscape laboratories in Scandinavia
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With the first living laboratory created on Alnarp Campus in the 1980s, ''Woods go urban'' delves into the three innovative landscape laboratories in Sweden. Explaining the hands-on design approach of integrating natural landscapes into urban environments, this book includes photographs, and illustrations, as well as detailed insights and knowledge from fourteen landscape architects and urban planners who were involved in these projects. Combined with creative management, interactive education, research, and citizen participation, discover new urban planning practices and a transdisciplinary model for healthier and more harmonious urban living environments.
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With the first living laboratory created on Alnarp Campus in the 1980s, ''Woods go urban'' delves into the three innovative landscape laboratories in Sweden. Explaining the hands-on design approach of integrating natural landscapes into urban environments, this book includes photographs, and illustrations, as well as detailed insights and knowledge from fourteen landscape architects and urban planners who were involved in these projects. Combined with creative management, interactive education, research, and citizen participation, discover new urban planning practices and a transdisciplinary model for healthier and more harmonious urban living environments.
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Si l'architecture et l'urbanisme du XIXè siècle ont fait, de longue date, l'objet d'une fondamentale réévaluation de la part des historiens et d'une réelle prise en compte de leur valeur patrimoniale, l'art des parcs et des jardins de cette époque reste en grande partie à découvrir, alors même qu'il se révèle comme l'un des mondes formels parmi les plus féconds et qu'il(...)
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Si l'architecture et l'urbanisme du XIXè siècle ont fait, de longue date, l'objet d'une fondamentale réévaluation de la part des historiens et d'une réelle prise en compte de leur valeur patrimoniale, l'art des parcs et des jardins de cette époque reste en grande partie à découvrir, alors même qu'il se révèle comme l'un des mondes formels parmi les plus féconds et qu'il(...)
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November 2001, Besançon
November 2001, Besançon
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Édouard André (1840-1911) : un paysagiste botaniste sur les chemins du monde
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Si l'architecture et l'urbanisme du XIXè siècle ont fait, de longue date, l'objet d'une fondamentale réévaluation de la part des historiens et d'une réelle prise en compte de leur valeur patrimoniale, l'art des parcs et des jardins de cette époque reste en grande partie à découvrir, alors même qu'il se révèle comme l'un des mondes formels parmi les plus féconds et qu'il a durablement modelé le paysage, tant en France que dans le reste du monde. Une pratique paysagère renouvelée - qui va du petit jardin privé au projet urbain - alliée à une érudition horticole sans faille, au service d'une conception humaniste d'un métier émergent, place l'architecte paysagiste Édouard André au premiere rang de ces concepteurs qui surent diffuser à l'échelle planétaire les modèles français élaborés dans la mouvance d'Haussmann et d'Alphand, grand voyageur, de la Lituanie à la Bulgarie, de Liverpool à Montevideo, défenseur du style composite ou mixte, Édouard André a aussi fait oeuvre théorique en publiant en 1879 un ouvrage dont le succès ne s'est jamais démenti : "L'art des jardins. Traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins" où il synthétise brillamment réflexions esthétiques, techniques de réalisation, et connaissance des végétaux.
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Si l'architecture et l'urbanisme du XIXè siècle ont fait, de longue date, l'objet d'une fondamentale réévaluation de la part des historiens et d'une réelle prise en compte de leur valeur patrimoniale, l'art des parcs et des jardins de cette époque reste en grande partie à découvrir, alors même qu'il se révèle comme l'un des mondes formels parmi les plus féconds et qu'il a durablement modelé le paysage, tant en France que dans le reste du monde. Une pratique paysagère renouvelée - qui va du petit jardin privé au projet urbain - alliée à une érudition horticole sans faille, au service d'une conception humaniste d'un métier émergent, place l'architecte paysagiste Édouard André au premiere rang de ces concepteurs qui surent diffuser à l'échelle planétaire les modèles français élaborés dans la mouvance d'Haussmann et d'Alphand, grand voyageur, de la Lituanie à la Bulgarie, de Liverpool à Montevideo, défenseur du style composite ou mixte, Édouard André a aussi fait oeuvre théorique en publiant en 1879 un ouvrage dont le succès ne s'est jamais démenti : "L'art des jardins. Traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins" où il synthétise brillamment réflexions esthétiques, techniques de réalisation, et connaissance des végétaux.
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November 2001, Besançon
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Walter Brugger (1924-2002) a été l'un des architectes paysagistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre. On lui doit d’innombrables réalisations allant de l’Expo 64 à l’arboretum d’Aubonne, de l’Ecole de Minoprio en Italie du Nord au jardin du Château de Glenveagh en Irlande. Son terrain de prédilection fut cependant le canton de Genève, où il dessina entre autre les(...)
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Walter Brugger (1924-2002) a été l'un des architectes paysagistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre. On lui doit d’innombrables réalisations allant de l’Expo 64 à l’arboretum d’Aubonne, de l’Ecole de Minoprio en Italie du Nord au jardin du Château de Glenveagh en Irlande. Son terrain de prédilection fut cependant le canton de Genève, où il dessina entre autre les(...)
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September 2005, Gollion
September 2005, Gollion
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Walter Brugger : architecte-paysagiste
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Walter Brugger (1924-2002) a été l'un des architectes paysagistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre. On lui doit d’innombrables réalisations allant de l’Expo 64 à l’arboretum d’Aubonne, de l’Ecole de Minoprio en Italie du Nord au jardin du Château de Glenveagh en Irlande. Son terrain de prédilection fut cependant le canton de Genève, où il dessina entre autre les aménagements extérieurs du CERN, du BIT, de l’OMS, de l’Hôpital Cantonal, des autoroutes, sans oublier les parcs de jeux et une infinité de jardins privés.
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Walter Brugger (1924-2002) a été l'un des architectes paysagistes les plus importants de l’après-guerre. On lui doit d’innombrables réalisations allant de l’Expo 64 à l’arboretum d’Aubonne, de l’Ecole de Minoprio en Italie du Nord au jardin du Château de Glenveagh en Irlande. Son terrain de prédilection fut cependant le canton de Genève, où il dessina entre autre les aménagements extérieurs du CERN, du BIT, de l’OMS, de l’Hôpital Cantonal, des autoroutes, sans oublier les parcs de jeux et une infinité de jardins privés.
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how(...)
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how(...)
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December 2005, New York
December 2005, New York
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Ken Smith, landscape architect : urban projects 2
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how each project espresses new relationships between landscape and place within the city.
Ken Smith, landscape architect : urban projects 2
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how each project espresses new relationships between landscape and place within the city.
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December 2005, New York
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Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected firms working in landscape architecture today with major commissions across the United States. This collection of twelve projects illustrates the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. Through the celebrated firm’s process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed(...)
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Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected firms working in landscape architecture today with major commissions across the United States. This collection of twelve projects illustrates the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. Through the celebrated firm’s process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed(...)
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November 2024
November 2024
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The land is full: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape architecture
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Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected firms working in landscape architecture today with major commissions across the United States. This collection of twelve projects illustrates the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. Through the celebrated firm’s process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed and integrated into meaningful public experiences. The firm has worked with exceptionally sensitive sites across the United States, including those that hold the vital histories of enslaved peoples, the rich cultures of indigenous peoples, and the natural habitats that have been threatened by infrastructure and construction.
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Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected firms working in landscape architecture today with major commissions across the United States. This collection of twelve projects illustrates the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. Through the celebrated firm’s process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed and integrated into meaningful public experiences. The firm has worked with exceptionally sensitive sites across the United States, including those that hold the vital histories of enslaved peoples, the rich cultures of indigenous peoples, and the natural habitats that have been threatened by infrastructure and construction.
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Mien Ruys, who worked mostly in the Netherlands for almost 60 years, was one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th Century. A leading proponent of modernist design, she introduced clean lines, geometric shapes and innovative materials. One of the few women members of CIAM, she collaborated regularly with architects including Aldo van Eyck and Gerrit(...)
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Mien Ruys, who worked mostly in the Netherlands for almost 60 years, was one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th Century. A leading proponent of modernist design, she introduced clean lines, geometric shapes and innovative materials. One of the few women members of CIAM, she collaborated regularly with architects including Aldo van Eyck and Gerrit(...)
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Mien Ruys: The mother of modernist gardens
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Mien Ruys, who worked mostly in the Netherlands for almost 60 years, was one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th Century. A leading proponent of modernist design, she introduced clean lines, geometric shapes and innovative materials. One of the few women members of CIAM, she collaborated regularly with architects including Aldo van Eyck and Gerrit Rietveld, often on much needed social housing schemes. Uniquely, she combined this modernist approach with an extensive knowledge of plants and planting, which she learnt in her father’ s Royal Moerheim Nursery in Dedemsvaart. At the nursery, she met Gertrude Jekyll - who greatly influenced Mien as she developed her own loose, natural style of planting - and created 30 experimental gardens from which lessons which can still be learnt.
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Mien Ruys, who worked mostly in the Netherlands for almost 60 years, was one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th Century. A leading proponent of modernist design, she introduced clean lines, geometric shapes and innovative materials. One of the few women members of CIAM, she collaborated regularly with architects including Aldo van Eyck and Gerrit Rietveld, often on much needed social housing schemes. Uniquely, she combined this modernist approach with an extensive knowledge of plants and planting, which she learnt in her father’ s Royal Moerheim Nursery in Dedemsvaart. At the nursery, she met Gertrude Jekyll - who greatly influenced Mien as she developed her own loose, natural style of planting - and created 30 experimental gardens from which lessons which can still be learnt.
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Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers of the American century. Their vast portfolio of public landscapes propelled the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux into the motor age, touching the lives of millions and changing the face of the nation. This book recovers the forgotten legacy of Clarke and Rapuano, whose parks and(...)
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Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers of the American century. Their vast portfolio of public landscapes propelled the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux into the motor age, touching the lives of millions and changing the face of the nation. This book recovers the forgotten legacy of Clarke and Rapuano, whose parks and(...)
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Designing the American century: The public landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915-1965
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Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers of the American century. Their vast portfolio of public landscapes propelled the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux into the motor age, touching the lives of millions and changing the face of the nation. This book recovers the forgotten legacy of Clarke and Rapuano, whose parks and parkways, highways and housing estates helped modernize—for better or worse—the American metropolis. With the patronage of public-works titan Robert Moses, Clarke and Rapuano transformed New York over a span of fifty years, revitalizing the city’s immense park system but also planning expressways, public housing, and urban renewal projects that laid waste to entire sections of the city. In this work, Thomas J. Campanella describes how Clarke and Rapuano helped create some of the metropolitan region’s most iconic landscapes, from the Central Park Zoo and Conservatory Garden to the Henry Hudson Parkway and Riverside Park, Jones Beach, the Palisades and Taconic State Parkways, and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. He shows how they left their mark far beyond Gotham as well, with projects as diverse as Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs, the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, site plans for the Pentagon and CIA headquarters, and Montreal’s Olympic Park.
Designing the American century: The public landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915-1965
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Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers of the American century. Their vast portfolio of public landscapes propelled the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux into the motor age, touching the lives of millions and changing the face of the nation. This book recovers the forgotten legacy of Clarke and Rapuano, whose parks and parkways, highways and housing estates helped modernize—for better or worse—the American metropolis. With the patronage of public-works titan Robert Moses, Clarke and Rapuano transformed New York over a span of fifty years, revitalizing the city’s immense park system but also planning expressways, public housing, and urban renewal projects that laid waste to entire sections of the city. In this work, Thomas J. Campanella describes how Clarke and Rapuano helped create some of the metropolitan region’s most iconic landscapes, from the Central Park Zoo and Conservatory Garden to the Henry Hudson Parkway and Riverside Park, Jones Beach, the Palisades and Taconic State Parkways, and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. He shows how they left their mark far beyond Gotham as well, with projects as diverse as Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs, the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, site plans for the Pentagon and CIA headquarters, and Montreal’s Olympic Park.
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Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson’s many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of(...)
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Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson’s many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of(...)
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June 2003, Charlottesville
June 2003, Charlottesville
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Thomas Jefferson, landscape architect
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Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson’s many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of his extraordinary accomplishments in the field. "Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect" investigates the many influences on — and of — the Jeffersonian legacy in architecture. Jefferson’s personality, friendships, and convictions, complemented by his extensive reading and travels, clearly influenced his architectural work. His fresh approach to incorporating foreign elements into domestic designs, his revolutionary approach to relating the house to the surrounding land, and his profound influences on the architectural character of the District of Columbia are just a few of Jefferson’s contributions to the American landscape. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps, plans, and drawings, as well as pictures of the species of trees that Jefferson used for his designs, generously illustrate the engaging narrative in "Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect".
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Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson’s many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of his extraordinary accomplishments in the field. "Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect" investigates the many influences on — and of — the Jeffersonian legacy in architecture. Jefferson’s personality, friendships, and convictions, complemented by his extensive reading and travels, clearly influenced his architectural work. His fresh approach to incorporating foreign elements into domestic designs, his revolutionary approach to relating the house to the surrounding land, and his profound influences on the architectural character of the District of Columbia are just a few of Jefferson’s contributions to the American landscape. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps, plans, and drawings, as well as pictures of the species of trees that Jefferson used for his designs, generously illustrate the engaging narrative in "Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect".
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June 2003, Charlottesville
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating(...)
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating(...)
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January 2003, Rotterdam
January 2003, Rotterdam
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Louis G. Le Roy : nature culture fusion
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating jungle populated by large stacked edifices an 'Eco-Cathedral'. Inspired by the Nobel Prize-winner Ilya Prigogine, Le Roy pondered the following question: 'What can one person achieve working with nature in space and time? This book zooms in on those two aspects crucial to his work: space and time. Le Roy's position on these concepts is at odds with the often rapid, super-efficient, function-hugging approach to greenspace and nature in the Netherlands. The Eco-Cathedral is a place where time regains space and space regains time. So the project he began is expected to be continued by others at least until the year 3000. The ideas underpinning Le Roy's project - the importance of the time factor in spatial processes, and working with complex, dynamic systems and networks - make it relevant to current discourse on architecture, urban design and spatial planning.
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating jungle populated by large stacked edifices an 'Eco-Cathedral'. Inspired by the Nobel Prize-winner Ilya Prigogine, Le Roy pondered the following question: 'What can one person achieve working with nature in space and time? This book zooms in on those two aspects crucial to his work: space and time. Le Roy's position on these concepts is at odds with the often rapid, super-efficient, function-hugging approach to greenspace and nature in the Netherlands. The Eco-Cathedral is a place where time regains space and space regains time. So the project he began is expected to be continued by others at least until the year 3000. The ideas underpinning Le Roy's project - the importance of the time factor in spatial processes, and working with complex, dynamic systems and networks - make it relevant to current discourse on architecture, urban design and spatial planning.
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January 2003, Rotterdam
January 2003, Rotterdam
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