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Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and(...)
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October 2003, London
The garden of cosmic speculation
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Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden's creation into an investigation into the revelations of recent science, using landscape and design to shed light on the way we can now conceive of the Universe. This book is illustrated with year-round photography
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Illustrated with 150 photographs, plans, and drawings, Howett’s study analyzes the singular convergence of influences that occurred in the imagination of a highly unusual woman. The book provides welcome insight into the culture of the New South and into a richly inventive period in the history of American landscape architecture.
A world of her own making: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the landscape of Reynolda
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Illustrated with 150 photographs, plans, and drawings, Howett’s study analyzes the singular convergence of influences that occurred in the imagination of a highly unusual woman. The book provides welcome insight into the culture of the New South and into a richly inventive period in the history of American landscape architecture.
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By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the(...)
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February 2008, Montréal, Kingston, London, Ithaca
The cultivated landscape: an exploration of art and agriculture
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By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present. Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on landscape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art. They also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and economics have played in agricultural development and the parallels to changes in art form. The Cultivated Landscape ends with a discussion of the complex issues facing agriculture today, the need for greater connectivity between agriculture and our environment, and options for the future.
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Nancy Lancaster has long been a shadowy eminence whose reputation as a gardener has been hinted at more than studied. The author puts forward the case that she created the English country house style and has been the most influential gardener since Gertrude Jekyll.
Nancy Lancaster : English country house style
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Nancy Lancaster has long been a shadowy eminence whose reputation as a gardener has been hinted at more than studied. The author puts forward the case that she created the English country house style and has been the most influential gardener since Gertrude Jekyll.
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L'exposition consacrée à Frans Post réunit de façon exceptionnelle les sept premiers tableaux connus du Nouveau Monde réalisés sur place par un artiste hollandais. Frans Post fut en effet le premier peintre à traverser l'Atlantique pour peindre des vues du continent américain, une nature que l'Europe commençait à peine à découvrir.
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January 2006, Milan
Frans Post : le Brésil à la cour de Louis XIV
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L'exposition consacrée à Frans Post réunit de façon exceptionnelle les sept premiers tableaux connus du Nouveau Monde réalisés sur place par un artiste hollandais. Frans Post fut en effet le premier peintre à traverser l'Atlantique pour peindre des vues du continent américain, une nature que l'Europe commençait à peine à découvrir.
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Miniature and panorama
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Miniature and Panorama offers a look at projects since 2000 by the firm Vogt Landscape Architects, Zurich/Munich, which is internationally active. With photographs, plans, and explanatory texts, this volume sets forth the intellectual foundation on which the projects of Vogt Landscape Architects are based. In words and pictures, it describes and illuminates thirty(...)
Miniature and panorama
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Miniature and Panorama offers a look at projects since 2000 by the firm Vogt Landscape Architects, Zurich/Munich, which is internationally active. With photographs, plans, and explanatory texts, this volume sets forth the intellectual foundation on which the projects of Vogt Landscape Architects are based. In words and pictures, it describes and illuminates thirty projects, organized according to the exterior typologies of landscape, park, square, garden, cemetery, courtyard, promenade, and interior. Among them are the exterior spaces of the Allianz Arena in Munich, various projects on Novartis Campus in Basel, and the Masoala Rain Forest Hall at the Zurich Zoo. The broad range of essays and articles by friends—Olafur Eliasson, Peter Erni, Hamish Fulton, Roman Signer, Olaf Unverzart, and Christian Vogt—expresses Günther Vogt’s conception of landscape architecture as a heterogeneous field combining a variety of disciplines from the natural sciences, the arts, and design.
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Peter Walker and Partners / Nasher Sculpture Center Garden focuses on his garden in Dallas, Texas, a set of "outdoor galleries" showcasing the Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. A museum without a roof, the garden, with its subtle balance of art and nature, is also a serene urban park, whose beauty perfectly complements Renzo Piano's design for the(...)
Peter Walker and partners : Nasher sculpture center garden
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Peter Walker and Partners / Nasher Sculpture Center Garden focuses on his garden in Dallas, Texas, a set of "outdoor galleries" showcasing the Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. A museum without a roof, the garden, with its subtle balance of art and nature, is also a serene urban park, whose beauty perfectly complements Renzo Piano's design for the center. Peter Walker's informative sketches, drawings, and plans, along with photographs of the final design, reveal the delicate balance between art, culture, and context at the heart of the Nasher Foundation Sculpture Garden.
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First published in 1999. In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.
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July 2000, New York
A clearing in the distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th century
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First published in 1999. In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.
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Büro Kiefer was founded in Berlin in 1989. A mathematical and aesthetical logic lies at the basis of every design. In recombing both, landscape design answers to the ever growing job responsabilities : architecture, urban development and region development oriente the landscape. Linked up with this challenge, but also with the cultural tradition of garden art, Büro Kiefer(...)
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June 2006, Stuttgart
Büro Kiefer landscape design : rekombinationen recombinations
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Büro Kiefer was founded in Berlin in 1989. A mathematical and aesthetical logic lies at the basis of every design. In recombing both, landscape design answers to the ever growing job responsabilities : architecture, urban development and region development oriente the landscape. Linked up with this challenge, but also with the cultural tradition of garden art, Büro Kiefer creates new hybrid from town and landscape. Their starting point is a contemporary undestanding of space. On the basis of an analysis of the space, the division of influences and ideas an recombining them, Büro Kiefer creates images referring to the future. Photography by Hans Joosten.
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La paysagiste américaine Kathryn Gustafson a acquis une renommée internationale exceptionnelle. Son travail actuel se concentre sur les espaces publics. La récente Fontaine à la mémoire de Diana, Princess of Wales, au Hyde Park à Londres, n'est qu'un exemple d'une longue liste de projets acclamés, réalisés avec ses associés chez Gustafson Porter (Londres) et Gustafson(...)
Moving horizons : les paysages de Kathryn Gustafson et Associés
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La paysagiste américaine Kathryn Gustafson a acquis une renommée internationale exceptionnelle. Son travail actuel se concentre sur les espaces publics. La récente Fontaine à la mémoire de Diana, Princess of Wales, au Hyde Park à Londres, n'est qu'un exemple d'une longue liste de projets acclamés, réalisés avec ses associés chez Gustafson Porter (Londres) et Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle), dont la Arthur Ross Terrace au American Museum of Natural History (New York), le Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek à Amsterdam, le Lurie Garden à Chicago et le Hadiqat As-Samah à Beyrouth. Les plus de trente projets internationaux présentés dans Moving Horizons illustrent le talent distinctif et éminemment artistique de Kathryn Gustafson et Associés à créer des formes sensuelles, sculpturales. Le livre présente en même temps les collaborations avec des architectes comme Norman Foster, Ian Ritchie, Mecanoo, Valode & Pistre et James Polshek. L'importance de cette œuvre a également été reconnue par de nombreux prix, comme le Chrysler Design Award, et la sélection pour l'exposition " Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape " au Museum of Modern Art de New York.
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