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Fondé en 2000, l’atelier de Julien Descombes et Marco Rampini s’est distingué sur la scène architecturale par son large éventail d’intérêts, du territoire à l’urbanisme, de l’architecture aux ouvrages d’art. Il s’intéresse en particulier aux aménagements paysagers et urbains. En témoignent plusieurs projets de haute qualité : la Turbinenplatz (2000-2003), à Zurich, étonne(...)
Atelier Descombes Rampini : lieux communs
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Fondé en 2000, l’atelier de Julien Descombes et Marco Rampini s’est distingué sur la scène architecturale par son large éventail d’intérêts, du territoire à l’urbanisme, de l’architecture aux ouvrages d’art. Il s’intéresse en particulier aux aménagements paysagers et urbains. En témoignent plusieurs projets de haute qualité : la Turbinenplatz (2000-2003), à Zurich, étonne l’observateur par le contraste entre les aménagements « minimalistes » et le spectacle féerique offert par son éclairage artificiel ; la place Simon Goulart recrée une ambiance festive et conviviale au centre de Genève ; entamé en 2001, le projet de la renaturation sur quatre kilomètres de l’Aire, un cours d’eau canalisé au XXe siècle, se matérialise peu à peu, offrant un nouvel espace de promenade au promeneur contemplatif. La production de l’atelier, territoriale, urbaine et architecturale, s’étend hors des frontières helvétiques, par l’aménagement des rives de la Saône à Lyon-Confluence ou le dessin du Jardin d’Eole à Paris.
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GGN Landscapes 1999-2018
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Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington. GGN was founded in 1999 by Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nichol, and Kathryn Gustafson, and it is world-renowned for designing high-use landscapes in complex, urban contexts. GGN: Landscapes 1999-2018 is the first book devoted to their ground-breaking work. It surveys some of their(...)
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November 2018
GGN Landscapes 1999-2018
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Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington. GGN was founded in 1999 by Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nichol, and Kathryn Gustafson, and it is world-renowned for designing high-use landscapes in complex, urban contexts. GGN: Landscapes 1999-2018 is the first book devoted to their ground-breaking work. It surveys some of their most important achievements including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus in Seattle, Washington; the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC; the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois; and the Venice Biennale in Italy.
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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) is most often remembered as America’s preeminent landscape architect, a profession he named, helped to define, and elevated into an art form in beloved parks and public spaces. Gathering over 100 items—letters, travel sketches, newspaper articles, essays, editorials, design proposals, official reports, and autobiographical(...)
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December 2015
Olmstead: writings on landscape, culture and society
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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) is most often remembered as America’s preeminent landscape architect, a profession he named, helped to define, and elevated into an art form in beloved parks and public spaces. Gathering over 100 items—letters, travel sketches, newspaper articles, essays, editorials, design proposals, official reports, and autobiographical reminiscences—this volume charts the emergence and development of Olmsted’s vision of restorative public green spaces as an antidote to the debilitating pressures of urbanization and modern life.
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The modernist parks and gardens of Brazilian landscape architect and garden designer Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) earned him awards, widespread acclaim, and international fame. Over a 60-year career, he designed more than 2,000 gardens worldwide, the most famous of which are those he created in collaboration with the architect Oscar Niemeyer for Brasília. Although he is(...)
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February 2016
Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist
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The modernist parks and gardens of Brazilian landscape architect and garden designer Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) earned him awards, widespread acclaim, and international fame. Over a 60-year career, he designed more than 2,000 gardens worldwide, the most famous of which are those he created in collaboration with the architect Oscar Niemeyer for Brasília. Although he is best known for his landscape work, Burle Marx was a prolific artist in a variety of media, and his larger body of work—which includes paintings, drawings, tile mosaics, sculpture, textile design, jewelry, theater costumes, and more—is critical to understanding his importance as a modernist. An avid horticulturalist, he was among the first to denounce deforestation in the Amazon region; he also discovered over thirty species of Brazilian flora, which bear his name.
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Deux films pour mieux comprendre le parcours et la pensée atypiques de Gilles Clément, jardinier, architecte paysagiste et écrivain, théoricien du jardin comme espace d'utopies politiques.
January 2015
Gilles Clément: le jardin en mouvement
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Deux films pour mieux comprendre le parcours et la pensée atypiques de Gilles Clément, jardinier, architecte paysagiste et écrivain, théoricien du jardin comme espace d'utopies politiques.
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Detailing makes a landscape unique, and a landscape architect outstanding. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed landscape architects, the book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs. Each project is presented with color photographs, site plans, and sections as well as numerous construction details. There is also a(...)
April 2008, London
Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture
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Detailing makes a landscape unique, and a landscape architect outstanding. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed landscape architects, the book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs. Each project is presented with color photographs, site plans, and sections as well as numerous construction details. There is also a brief descriptive text, detailed captions, and in-depth information for each project. The projects are presented in clear and concise layouts over four pages. All the drawings are specially commissioned, styled in a consistent manner, and presented at standard architectural scales for easy comparison. Intended for architects, engineers, and landscape architects, the book will also be invaluable for architecture, garden, and landscape design students, for whom it will be a resource not only for understanding the work of the best contemporary landscape architects, but also as a tool for their own design work.
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Envisioned as a new urban model for sculpture parks, the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park is located on the city’s last undeveloped waterfront property—a nine-acre industrial site sliced by train tracks and an arterial road. New York–based architecture, landscape, and urban design firm Weiss/Manfredi has created a continuous constructed landscape for art that(...)
Olympic sculpture park for the Seattle Art Museum Weiss/Manfredi
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Envisioned as a new urban model for sculpture parks, the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park is located on the city’s last undeveloped waterfront property—a nine-acre industrial site sliced by train tracks and an arterial road. New York–based architecture, landscape, and urban design firm Weiss/Manfredi has created a continuous constructed landscape for art that rises over the existing infrastructure to reconnect Seattle’s urban core to the revitalized waterfront. The park not only brings art outside the museum walls but also brings the park itself into the landscape of the city. This study offers an opportunity to take a fresh look at the city and explore some hypotheses about the wider meaning of an urban design project.
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In 1969, House and Garden magazine commissioned one of the first minimalist artists, Patricia Johanson, to propose new directions for American garden art. Having never been exhibited or published before as a whole, the resulting garden proposals reveal an unknown dimension of the New York art world of the late 1960s. Three years of research have brought 146 surviving(...)
Patricia Johanson's House & Gardens commission: reconstruction of modernity
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In 1969, House and Garden magazine commissioned one of the first minimalist artists, Patricia Johanson, to propose new directions for American garden art. Having never been exhibited or published before as a whole, the resulting garden proposals reveal an unknown dimension of the New York art world of the late 1960s. Three years of research have brought 146 surviving drawings to light. They demonstrate the intimate progress of the artist’s engagement with nature in her quest for an art concerned with ethical relationships between humans and the natural world. Shuttling between the West and the East, and the contemporary and the historical, Johanson takes equal distances from earthworks created by her peer artists such as Robert Smithson, and the environmentalism advocated by landscape architects following Ian McHarg. Her vision of a new modernity is still significant today. The book is divided into 2 volumes, and includes a preface by Stephen Bann and a catalogue of 146 original garden proposals.
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Kienast Gardens/Gärten
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First complete documentation of the private garden designs of this Swiss landscape architect. Photographs by Christian Vogt.
Kienast Gardens/Gärten
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First complete documentation of the private garden designs of this Swiss landscape architect. Photographs by Christian Vogt.
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May 1997, Basel
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For almost thirty years, Claude Cormier et Associés has designed landscapes daring in scope while earnest in execution, courting controversy while inviting public accord. Produced under the leadership of Claude Cormier, the range of these projects has spanned the creation of parks and squares, the renovation of historical landscapes, and the conversion of industrial(...)
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September 2021
Serious fun: the landscapes of Claude Cormier
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For almost thirty years, Claude Cormier et Associés has designed landscapes daring in scope while earnest in execution, courting controversy while inviting public accord. Produced under the leadership of Claude Cormier, the range of these projects has spanned the creation of parks and squares, the renovation of historical landscapes, and the conversion of industrial sites. While always serious in the address of function, their designs often display a touch of humor in both method and form- in all, these are works marked by "serious fun." It is a practice unique in Canada, arguably in the world. That people use, and may even love, these urban landscapes testifies to the pleasure afforded by their designs and the humanistic dimensions of the practice. This, the first book exclusively dedicated to the landscapes of Claude Cormier and his team, provides a broad overview of their ideas and methods with insightful discussions of selected projects and the thinking behind them.
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