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The Swiss landscape architects Rotzler Krebs partner specialise in the planning and design of urban open spaces, parks and gardens. This book contains a representative selection of their completed and planned projects. An introduction by Christophe Girot and essays by Hubertus Adam look at the oeuvre of Rotzler Krebs partner in the context of contemporary landscape(...)
Rotzler Krebs partner: landscape architecture
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The Swiss landscape architects Rotzler Krebs partner specialise in the planning and design of urban open spaces, parks and gardens. This book contains a representative selection of their completed and planned projects. An introduction by Christophe Girot and essays by Hubertus Adam look at the oeuvre of Rotzler Krebs partner in the context of contemporary landscape architecture, while the illustrations by the photographic artist Annelies Strba Enrich the pulication with a further visual level.
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Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal landscapes that often arise from necessity - recycling a coal site for human use or making new use of excess earth - they are a pleasure to walk over and through. In this collection of his recent work, Charles Jencks explains(...)
The universe in the landscape: landforms by Charles Jencks
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Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal landscapes that often arise from necessity - recycling a coal site for human use or making new use of excess earth - they are a pleasure to walk over and through. In this collection of his recent work, Charles Jencks explains his particular approach to the landform. Like the prehistoric earthworks of Britain that have been an inspiration, such as Stonehenge, his landforms contain cosmic symbolism, and they draw together sculpture, epigraphy, water, gardens, scrap metal and architecture. They address perennial themes - identity, patterns of nature, death and the power of life - but in a contemporary way, based on the insights of science. So Jencks portrays universal aspects of DNA, the spacetime warp of a black hole, the extraordinary way cells divide and unite and some basic forms of life. In this publication Jencks seeks to define a new landscape iconography based on forms and themes that may be eternal, in the sense that they crystallise nature's laws, some of which have been recently discovered. To see a world in a grain of sand was a poetic quest of William Blake and, in a different sense, to find the universe in a ritual landscape was a goal of prehistoric cultures. Jencks allies these spiritual affinities with the view of science that stresses the common patterns that underlie all parts of the cosmos, thus making them like our home planet, and the universe in a landscape.
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After a career as a stylist in Paris and New York, Nicole de Vésian (1916-1996) retired to Provence where, at the age of seventy, she began designing La Louve. Now an European icon, this garden was soon inspiring garderners from all over the world. Vésian also designed other garderns nearby, largely unknown, presented here for the first time.
Nicole de Vésian - Gardens : Modern design in Provence
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After a career as a stylist in Paris and New York, Nicole de Vésian (1916-1996) retired to Provence where, at the age of seventy, she began designing La Louve. Now an European icon, this garden was soon inspiring garderners from all over the world. Vésian also designed other garderns nearby, largely unknown, presented here for the first time.
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Picking up on architecture’s tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Günther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession. With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes(...)
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Vogt architects: Landscape as a cabinet of curiosities
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Picking up on architecture’s tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Günther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession. With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city, about his teaching at the ETH Zürich, and about the work of Vogt Landscape Architects; he describes his perception of the landscape as a cabinet of curiosities, tells how he collects various phenomena and individual elements, relates them to each other and rearranges them. And in the reader’s mind’s eye unfolds a cosmos, in which the lack of wholeness of nature seems to be a gain rather than a loss.
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Since its inception in 2001, Dermot Foley Landscape Architects has developed many successful projects, contributing its own distinctive voice to the rapidly evolving irish landscape as well as to a number of locations beyond ireland. Artifice presents an analysis of the ideas and themes that have emerged through the collective interactions between Dermot Foley’s(...)
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April 2011
Dermot Foley landscape architects: artifice
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Since its inception in 2001, Dermot Foley Landscape Architects has developed many successful projects, contributing its own distinctive voice to the rapidly evolving irish landscape as well as to a number of locations beyond ireland. Artifice presents an analysis of the ideas and themes that have emerged through the collective interactions between Dermot Foley’s architects, designers, urban planners and horticulturists, and which have informed the practice’s projects to date. It reflects their approach to landscape design that has been at the basis of the firm’s projects and offers new insights into this multi-award winning practice.
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This publication examines spatial and material qualities that define the Australian landscape through the lens of landscape architecture.
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June 2011
Sunburnt: landscape architecture in Australia
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This publication examines spatial and material qualities that define the Australian landscape through the lens of landscape architecture.
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Characterized by an expansive vision and a passion for detail, Huttereimann + Cejka landscape architects have been designing public spaces and residential environments in Europe for over ten years. This publication presents a wealth of unconventional solutions for public parks, squares and playgrounds, as well as private gardens, through photographs, plans, drawings and writings.
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Hutterreimann & Cejka landscape architects: specific landscapes
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Characterized by an expansive vision and a passion for detail, Huttereimann + Cejka landscape architects have been designing public spaces and residential environments in Europe for over ten years. This publication presents a wealth of unconventional solutions for public parks, squares and playgrounds, as well as private gardens, through photographs, plans, drawings and writings.
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Andrew Jackson Downing was among the first to develop aesthetic theories that differed sharply from those perpetuated in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe. He designed houses based upon American democratic values and advocated for domestic design that would satisfy basic human needs along with the desire to live well. In this book, Caren Yglesias,(...)
The complete house and grounds: learning from Andrew Jackson Downing's domestic architecture
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Andrew Jackson Downing was among the first to develop aesthetic theories that differed sharply from those perpetuated in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe. He designed houses based upon American democratic values and advocated for domestic design that would satisfy basic human needs along with the desire to live well. In this book, Caren Yglesias, a practicing architect, examines Downing's legacy with an eye for relevance to today's domestic landscape. She builds on Downing's work in order to redefine what makes a "complete," or nurturing and fulfilling, house and grounds.
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Brenda Colvin (1897-1981) ranks with Sylvia Crowe and Geoffrey Jellicoe as a pioneer of twentieth-century landscape design in Britain. This first full account of her life and work demonstrates her importance. With full access to the archives of Colvin, author Trish Gibson draws on Colvin's personal notebooks and uses many of her previously unpublished photographs and(...)
Brenda Colvin: a career in landscape
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Brenda Colvin (1897-1981) ranks with Sylvia Crowe and Geoffrey Jellicoe as a pioneer of twentieth-century landscape design in Britain. This first full account of her life and work demonstrates her importance. With full access to the archives of Colvin, author Trish Gibson draws on Colvin's personal notebooks and uses many of her previously unpublished photographs and plans for this book.
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This publication brings together an array of Norway and Switzerland's 19th-century artists, who shared an interest in capturing their native dramatic alpine landscapes. This illustrated book also examines the differences that climate, character, and political regimes have imposed on artistic practices. Distinct social and political situations in Norway and Switzerland(...)
Forests, rocks, torrents: Norwegian and Swiaa landscape paintings from the Lunde collection
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This publication brings together an array of Norway and Switzerland's 19th-century artists, who shared an interest in capturing their native dramatic alpine landscapes. This illustrated book also examines the differences that climate, character, and political regimes have imposed on artistic practices. Distinct social and political situations in Norway and Switzerland yielded fundamental differences in the two countries' painting traditions. As Norway endured a long struggle for freedom, Switzerland remained proudly independent. While Norway was poor, isolated, and dependent for survival on its natural resources, the Swiss enjoyed prosperity, a cosmopolitan society, and prestige as an early center of industry. The authors examine how this was manifested in the landscape paintings of such prominent artists as Johan Christian Dahl, Thomas Fearnley, Peder Balke, and Alexandra Calame. This book also supplies a helpful chronology and brief artist biographies.
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