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Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures explores the potential to shape a new public realm. Essays, roundtable discussions, and selected projects by WEISS/MANFREDI identify new terms, conditions, and models that insist architecture must evolve to create more productive connections between landscape, infrastructure, and urban territories. With a foreword by Barry(...)
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Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures explores the potential to shape a new public realm. Essays, roundtable discussions, and selected projects by WEISS/MANFREDI identify new terms, conditions, and models that insist architecture must evolve to create more productive connections between landscape, infrastructure, and urban territories. With a foreword by Barry(...)
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Public natures: evolutionary infrastructures
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Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures explores the potential to shape a new public realm. Essays, roundtable discussions, and selected projects by WEISS/MANFREDI identify new terms, conditions, and models that insist architecture must evolve to create more productive connections between landscape, infrastructure, and urban territories. With a foreword by Barry Bergdoll and contributions from Kenneth Frampton, Preston Scott Cohen, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Paul Lewis, Hashim Sarkis, and Nader Tehrani, Public Natures is both monograph and projective manifesto and suggests a new paradigm for infrastructure that is distinctly public in nature.
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Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures explores the potential to shape a new public realm. Essays, roundtable discussions, and selected projects by WEISS/MANFREDI identify new terms, conditions, and models that insist architecture must evolve to create more productive connections between landscape, infrastructure, and urban territories. With a foreword by Barry Bergdoll and contributions from Kenneth Frampton, Preston Scott Cohen, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Paul Lewis, Hashim Sarkis, and Nader Tehrani, Public Natures is both monograph and projective manifesto and suggests a new paradigm for infrastructure that is distinctly public in nature.
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April 2015
April 2015
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Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work(...)
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Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work(...)
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The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design
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Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and 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.
The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design
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Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and 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.
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June 2015
June 2015
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This book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted’s design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs, and comprehensive descriptions. Bringing together Olmsted’s most significant parks, parkways, park systems, and scenic reservations, this volume takes readers on a tour of such(...)
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This book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted’s design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs, and comprehensive descriptions. Bringing together Olmsted’s most significant parks, parkways, park systems, and scenic reservations, this volume takes readers on a tour of such(...)
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May 2015
May 2015
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Frederick Law Olmsted: plans and views of public parks
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This book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted’s design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs, and comprehensive descriptions. Bringing together Olmsted’s most significant parks, parkways, park systems, and scenic reservations, this volume takes readers on a tour of such notable landscapes as Central Park, Prospect Park, the Buffalo Park and Parkway System, Washington Park and Jackson Park in Chicago, Boston’s "Emerald Necklace," and Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) planned many parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed and defended today. His public parks, the design of which he was most proud, have had a lasting effect on urban America.
Frederick Law Olmsted: plans and views of public parks
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This book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted’s design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs, and comprehensive descriptions. Bringing together Olmsted’s most significant parks, parkways, park systems, and scenic reservations, this volume takes readers on a tour of such notable landscapes as Central Park, Prospect Park, the Buffalo Park and Parkway System, Washington Park and Jackson Park in Chicago, Boston’s "Emerald Necklace," and Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) planned many parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed and defended today. His public parks, the design of which he was most proud, have had a lasting effect on urban America.
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May 2015
May 2015
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Daniel Ost
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Daniel Ost is an internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer. His masterful site-specific sculptures redefine the boundaries of art, design, and floral arrangement. Ost has created exquisite installations for royal residences, embassies, temples, international art exhibitions, and the fashion industry. The publication presents 80 of his most important(...)
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Daniel Ost is an internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer. His masterful site-specific sculptures redefine the boundaries of art, design, and floral arrangement. Ost has created exquisite installations for royal residences, embassies, temples, international art exhibitions, and the fashion industry. The publication presents 80 of his most important(...)
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October 2015
October 2015
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Daniel Ost
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Daniel Ost is an internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer. His masterful site-specific sculptures redefine the boundaries of art, design, and floral arrangement. Ost has created exquisite installations for royal residences, embassies, temples, international art exhibitions, and the fashion industry. The publication presents 80 of his most important projects while accompanying essays explore their significance and the inspiration behind them.
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Daniel Ost is an internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer. His masterful site-specific sculptures redefine the boundaries of art, design, and floral arrangement. Ost has created exquisite installations for royal residences, embassies, temples, international art exhibitions, and the fashion industry. The publication presents 80 of his most important projects while accompanying essays explore their significance and the inspiration behind them.
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October 2015
October 2015
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For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea through(...)
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For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea through(...)
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Kiyonori Kikutake: between land and sea
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For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea through pivotal works including the Sky House, Hotel Tken, the Izumo Administration Building, and the urban scale of his ongoing Marine/Ocean City project, spanning from the late 1950s to today.
Kiyonori Kikutake: between land and sea
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For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea through pivotal works including the Sky House, Hotel Tken, the Izumo Administration Building, and the urban scale of his ongoing Marine/Ocean City project, spanning from the late 1950s to today.
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Through the work of landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners "Recycling space" examines the role of the designed landscape in answering some of the most difficult questions facing 21st century cities: How to breath new life into dying city centers, how to create meaningful neighbourhoods in rapidly growing urban areas, how to add economic and social value to depleted(...)
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Through the work of landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners "Recycling space" examines the role of the designed landscape in answering some of the most difficult questions facing 21st century cities: How to breath new life into dying city centers, how to create meaningful neighbourhoods in rapidly growing urban areas, how to add economic and social value to depleted(...)
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Recycling spaces: curating urban evolution (the work of Martha Schwartz Partners)
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Through the work of landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners "Recycling space" examines the role of the designed landscape in answering some of the most difficult questions facing 21st century cities: How to breath new life into dying city centers, how to create meaningful neighbourhoods in rapidly growing urban areas, how to add economic and social value to depleted resource lanscapes, and how to curate the evolution of healthy, vital, and sustainable urban centers.
Recycling spaces: curating urban evolution (the work of Martha Schwartz Partners)
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Through the work of landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners "Recycling space" examines the role of the designed landscape in answering some of the most difficult questions facing 21st century cities: How to breath new life into dying city centers, how to create meaningful neighbourhoods in rapidly growing urban areas, how to add economic and social value to depleted resource lanscapes, and how to curate the evolution of healthy, vital, and sustainable urban centers.
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November 2011
November 2011
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Cet ouvrage, qui paraît à l’occasion du quatrième centenaire de la naissance de André Le Nôtre (1613-2013), est aussi le catalogue officiel de l’exposition « Le Nôtre en perspectives » organisée au château de Versailles du 22 octobre 2013 au 24 février 2014. Réunissant plusieurs spécialistes de l’histoire des jardins, des sciences et des techniques, mais aussi de(...)
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Cet ouvrage, qui paraît à l’occasion du quatrième centenaire de la naissance de André Le Nôtre (1613-2013), est aussi le catalogue officiel de l’exposition « Le Nôtre en perspectives » organisée au château de Versailles du 22 octobre 2013 au 24 février 2014. Réunissant plusieurs spécialistes de l’histoire des jardins, des sciences et des techniques, mais aussi de(...)
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December 2013
December 2013
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André Le Nôtre en perspectives
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Cet ouvrage, qui paraît à l’occasion du quatrième centenaire de la naissance de André Le Nôtre (1613-2013), est aussi le catalogue officiel de l’exposition « Le Nôtre en perspectives » organisée au château de Versailles du 22 octobre 2013 au 24 février 2014. Réunissant plusieurs spécialistes de l’histoire des jardins, des sciences et des techniques, mais aussi de l’histoire de l’art ou des institutions, cet ouvrage à l’approche transversale révise les idées reçues sur celui qui fut tout à la fois jardinier et dessinateur du roi, mais aussi contrôleur général des Bâtiments, jardins, arts et manufactures de Louis XIV, sur sa manière d’œuvrer en tant qu’architecte de l’espace, son rôle d’ingénieur, sa passion de collectionneur et l’héritage de ses conceptions, du 17e siècle jusqu’à nos jours.
André Le Nôtre en perspectives
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Cet ouvrage, qui paraît à l’occasion du quatrième centenaire de la naissance de André Le Nôtre (1613-2013), est aussi le catalogue officiel de l’exposition « Le Nôtre en perspectives » organisée au château de Versailles du 22 octobre 2013 au 24 février 2014. Réunissant plusieurs spécialistes de l’histoire des jardins, des sciences et des techniques, mais aussi de l’histoire de l’art ou des institutions, cet ouvrage à l’approche transversale révise les idées reçues sur celui qui fut tout à la fois jardinier et dessinateur du roi, mais aussi contrôleur général des Bâtiments, jardins, arts et manufactures de Louis XIV, sur sa manière d’œuvrer en tant qu’architecte de l’espace, son rôle d’ingénieur, sa passion de collectionneur et l’héritage de ses conceptions, du 17e siècle jusqu’à nos jours.
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In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets this creative process, called the RSVP Cycles, referring to the four components: resources, score, valuation, and performance. With access to a vast archive of drawings and documents, Hirsch provides the first close-up look at how Halprin changed our ideas about urban landscapes
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In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets this creative process, called the RSVP Cycles, referring to the four components: resources, score, valuation, and performance. With access to a vast archive of drawings and documents, Hirsch provides the first close-up look at how Halprin changed our ideas about urban landscapes
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City choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in urban renewal America
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In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets this creative process, called the RSVP Cycles, referring to the four components: resources, score, valuation, and performance. With access to a vast archive of drawings and documents, Hirsch provides the first close-up look at how Halprin changed our ideas about urban landscapes
City choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in urban renewal America
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In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets this creative process, called the RSVP Cycles, referring to the four components: resources, score, valuation, and performance. With access to a vast archive of drawings and documents, Hirsch provides the first close-up look at how Halprin changed our ideas about urban landscapes
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April 2014
April 2014
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In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer a biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the(...)
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In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer a biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the(...)
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander : making the Modern landscape
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In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer a biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the few women to graduate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has practiced socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning for public landscapes. Herrington places Oberlander within a larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her personal and professional trajectory and her work in New York, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal.
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander : making the Modern landscape
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In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer a biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the few women to graduate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has practiced socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning for public landscapes. Herrington places Oberlander within a larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her personal and professional trajectory and her work in New York, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal.
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February 2014
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Reconsidering Ian McHarg offers a fresh assessment of McHarg’s lessons and legacy. It applauds his call for environmental stewardship while acknowledging its unintended results. For McHarg’s idyllic developments at the edge of nature turned greenfield sites into suburban communities. They added to sprawl and made America more dependent on cars. And they may even have(...)
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Reconsidering Ian McHarg offers a fresh assessment of McHarg’s lessons and legacy. It applauds his call for environmental stewardship while acknowledging its unintended results. For McHarg’s idyllic developments at the edge of nature turned greenfield sites into suburban communities. They added to sprawl and made America more dependent on cars. And they may even have(...)
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Reconsidering Ian McHarg: the future of urban ecology
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Reconsidering Ian McHarg offers a fresh assessment of McHarg’s lessons and legacy. It applauds his call for environmental stewardship while acknowledging its unintended results. For McHarg’s idyllic developments at the edge of nature turned greenfield sites into suburban communities. They added to sprawl and made America more dependent on cars. And they may even have delayed the kind of urban redevelopment needed to make today’s cities more sustainable.
Reconsidering Ian McHarg: the future of urban ecology
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Reconsidering Ian McHarg offers a fresh assessment of McHarg’s lessons and legacy. It applauds his call for environmental stewardship while acknowledging its unintended results. For McHarg’s idyllic developments at the edge of nature turned greenfield sites into suburban communities. They added to sprawl and made America more dependent on cars. And they may even have delayed the kind of urban redevelopment needed to make today’s cities more sustainable.
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