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This important book explores geometry as a means of approximating landscape and urban forms. In recent years, Carlos Ferrater's architecture studio has regularly and continuously developed new avenues for formal expression. This collection of projects comprises a family of independent experiences, joined by a common logic of design approximation: Geometry as a means of(...)
Carlos Ferrater: Synchronizing geometry: landscape, architecture & construction / ideographic resources
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This important book explores geometry as a means of approximating landscape and urban forms. In recent years, Carlos Ferrater's architecture studio has regularly and continuously developed new avenues for formal expression. This collection of projects comprises a family of independent experiences, joined by a common logic of design approximation: Geometry as a means of approximating landscape and urban forms. The book is divided into three parts: The time of Geometry, Research Process and Ideographical Resources. This framework aims to define the conditions whereby the job of architecture is to move from geometry to space by means of construction.
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Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin's work, from(...)
Magnificent buildings, splendid gardens
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Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin's work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin's approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of his archival research, including his discovery of crucial documents on the Emilian architect Giovan Battista Aleotti and the only documentary evidence identifying Vignola as the architect of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia. Other essays take a much broader cultural view, investigating, for example, the phenomenon of public access to private Renaissance gardens, elucidating the evolving meaning of images of the goddess Venus in English gardens, and identifying the significance of the decorative programs of monuments as diverse as the Villa Belvedere in Rome and the eighteenth-century gardens at Rousham in Oxfordshire. The book also includes a commentary on each essay, written by one of Coffin's former students; a full analytical index; and a complete bibliography of Coffin's work.
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March 2008, New Haven
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Two thousand years of evolution have created the landscape units and functions of the lagoon: should it be taken into account?
2G dossier consurso 2G competition: Venice Lagoon Park
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Two thousand years of evolution have created the landscape units and functions of the lagoon: should it be taken into account?
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Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton Mackaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation, recreation, and regional planning. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant and unique figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history.
Benton Mackaye conservationist, planner, and creator of the appalachian trail
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Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton Mackaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation, recreation, and regional planning. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant and unique figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history.
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The artist's relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New Topographics movement turned their attention unsentimentally to the industrialized "man-altered" environment; in the 1980s, artists animated(...)
Badlands : new horizons in landscape
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The artist's relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New Topographics movement turned their attention unsentimentally to the industrialized "man-altered" environment; in the 1980s, artists animated the natural landscape with art, movement, and performance; and in the 1990s, Eco-Artists collaborated with scientists to address sustainability, pollution, and politics. "Badlands" explores the latest manifestations of artists’ fascination with the earth, gathering work by contemporary artists who approach landscape through history, culture, and science. "Badlands", which accompanies an exhibition at MASS MoCA, approaches landscape as a theme with variations, grouping artists and their art (which is shown in 150 color illustrations) by category : Historians, who recontextualize the history of landscape depiction; Explorers, who explore the environment and our place within it; Activists and Pragmatists, who alert us to problems in the natural world and suggest solutions; and the Aestheticists, who look at the beauty found in nature. Each section begins with an essay : Gregory Volk maps the evolution of the genre from the Hudson River School to Earth Art; Ginger Strand examines the relationship between man and landscape through our cultural history; Tensie Whelan discusses environmental science, sustainability, and climate change; and Denise Markonish considers the new genre of landscape that emerges from the work displayed in Badlands. As a physical object, Badlands supports the values represented by its intellectual and artistic content: it was produced using FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified techniques including paper, printing, and inks. Artists: Robert Adams, Vaughn Bell, Boyle Family, Melissa Brown, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Leila Daw, Gregory Euclide, J. Henry Fair, Mike Glier, Anthony Goicolea, Marine Hugonnier, Paul Jacobsen, Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform, Nina Katchadourian, Jane Marsching, Alexis Rockman, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Smolinski, Yutaka Sone, Jennifer Steinkamp, Mary Temple. Copublished with MASS MoCA
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Another perspective on the lawn, this time presenting a practical approach to the history, cultivation, and care of the green sward in America.
A man's turf : the perfect lawn
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Another perspective on the lawn, this time presenting a practical approach to the history, cultivation, and care of the green sward in America.
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March 1999, New York
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This book presents exhaustive documentation by ten contemporary Dutch landscape architectural practices comprising Annemieke Diekman, DS, Eker & Schaap, Juurlink & Geluk, Kaap 3, Parklaan, Studio I.S., Veenenbos & Bosch, Vista, and West 8.
Landscape : 9 + 1 young dutch landscape architects
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This book presents exhaustive documentation by ten contemporary Dutch landscape architectural practices comprising Annemieke Diekman, DS, Eker & Schaap, Juurlink & Geluk, Kaap 3, Parklaan, Studio I.S., Veenenbos & Bosch, Vista, and West 8.
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March 2000, Amsterdam
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Ancient Roman gardens
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Drawing upon information found in literature, frescoes, mosaics, and archeological research, Farrar traces the history of Roman gardens from the vegetable patch through to the sophisticated forms seen at the height of the Empire.
Ancient Roman gardens
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Drawing upon information found in literature, frescoes, mosaics, and archeological research, Farrar traces the history of Roman gardens from the vegetable patch through to the sophisticated forms seen at the height of the Empire.
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November 1998, Stroud
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Le fabuleux domaine privé de Villar Perosa, au nord de Turin, est l'un des secrets les mieux gardés d'Europe. Depuis plusieurs générations, les femmes de la famille Agnelli ont imaginé de merveilleux jardins, en les marquant de leurs personnalités respectives. L'auteur de ce livre s'est consacrée à transformer le domaine en un cadre prestigieux. Ses propres(...)
Les jardins Agnelli : l'histoire d'un domaine d'exception
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Le fabuleux domaine privé de Villar Perosa, au nord de Turin, est l'un des secrets les mieux gardés d'Europe. Depuis plusieurs générations, les femmes de la famille Agnelli ont imaginé de merveilleux jardins, en les marquant de leurs personnalités respectives. L'auteur de ce livre s'est consacrée à transformer le domaine en un cadre prestigieux. Ses propres photographies, prises tout au long de l'année, révèlent l'extraordinaire variété de styles de ce lieu merveilleux, du jardin classique à l'italienne, au jardin romantique rempli de fleurs sauvages, en passant par le jardin d'eau et le jardin de sculptures.
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October 1998, Genève
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Le jardin planétaire
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Du jardin des Lumières au jardin virtuel en passant par la flore latino-américaine, l'esthétique mediterranéenne, le paysage comme voyage, les témoins de ce livre - paysagistes, historiens, géographes, écrivains, urbanistes - nous font imaginer une approche des paysages de la planète avec l'attitude du jardinier dans son lopin devenu immense.
Le jardin planétaire
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Du jardin des Lumières au jardin virtuel en passant par la flore latino-américaine, l'esthétique mediterranéenne, le paysage comme voyage, les témoins de ce livre - paysagistes, historiens, géographes, écrivains, urbanistes - nous font imaginer une approche des paysages de la planète avec l'attitude du jardinier dans son lopin devenu immense.
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October 1997, Châteauvallon
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