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The twelfth instalment of the ‘Contemporary Architect’s Concept Series’ focuses on cartographer and landscape architect Hajime Ishikawa, who structures his ideas around the keyword “scale”. The topics in each chapter are therefore ordered from a wide to a local scale. Variations of the perception of scale allow for a more flexible conception of, for example, what defines(...)
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The twelfth instalment of the ‘Contemporary Architect’s Concept Series’ focuses on cartographer and landscape architect Hajime Ishikawa, who structures his ideas around the keyword “scale”. The topics in each chapter are therefore ordered from a wide to a local scale. Variations of the perception of scale allow for a more flexible conception of, for example, what defines(...)
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Hajime Ishikawa : a landscale book - a look at the ground
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The twelfth instalment of the ‘Contemporary Architect’s Concept Series’ focuses on cartographer and landscape architect Hajime Ishikawa, who structures his ideas around the keyword “scale”. The topics in each chapter are therefore ordered from a wide to a local scale. Variations of the perception of scale allow for a more flexible conception of, for example, what defines a garden, or what can be made visible through both a wider context and closer examination. Using these methods, the chapters investigate topography, maps, time, boundaries and gardens.
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The twelfth instalment of the ‘Contemporary Architect’s Concept Series’ focuses on cartographer and landscape architect Hajime Ishikawa, who structures his ideas around the keyword “scale”. The topics in each chapter are therefore ordered from a wide to a local scale. Variations of the perception of scale allow for a more flexible conception of, for example, what defines a garden, or what can be made visible through both a wider context and closer examination. Using these methods, the chapters investigate topography, maps, time, boundaries and gardens.
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January 2013
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This book connects John Nolen's political and social visions with his design proposals by analyzing his extensive writings, personal correspondence and some of his most significant works. While John Nolen is best known as a city planner, he trained as a landscape architect and used the titles 'landscape architect' and 'city planner' interchangeably throughout his career.(...)
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This book connects John Nolen's political and social visions with his design proposals by analyzing his extensive writings, personal correspondence and some of his most significant works. While John Nolen is best known as a city planner, he trained as a landscape architect and used the titles 'landscape architect' and 'city planner' interchangeably throughout his career.(...)
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John Nolen and the metropolitan landscape
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This book connects John Nolen's political and social visions with his design proposals by analyzing his extensive writings, personal correspondence and some of his most significant works. While John Nolen is best known as a city planner, he trained as a landscape architect and used the titles 'landscape architect' and 'city planner' interchangeably throughout his career. A prolific practitioner, he was engaged in nearly 400 projects throughout the United States between 1905 and 1936, including town planning, industrial housing, state and city parks, new towns and regional planning.
John Nolen and the metropolitan landscape
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This book connects John Nolen's political and social visions with his design proposals by analyzing his extensive writings, personal correspondence and some of his most significant works. While John Nolen is best known as a city planner, he trained as a landscape architect and used the titles 'landscape architect' and 'city planner' interchangeably throughout his career. A prolific practitioner, he was engaged in nearly 400 projects throughout the United States between 1905 and 1936, including town planning, industrial housing, state and city parks, new towns and regional planning.
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April 2013
April 2013
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Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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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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December 2013
December 2013
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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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City by landscape
City by landscape
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City by Landscape documents the work of Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten + Stadtplaner. The company’s overriding objective is to find answers to the urban-planning problems of today, and to do so in the awareness that 21st century landscape architecture should be a ‘built’ reflection on how people deal with one another and with nature.
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City by Landscape documents the work of Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten + Stadtplaner. The company’s overriding objective is to find answers to the urban-planning problems of today, and to do so in the awareness that 21st century landscape architecture should be a ‘built’ reflection on how people deal with one another and with nature.
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City by landscape
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City by Landscape documents the work of Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten + Stadtplaner. The company’s overriding objective is to find answers to the urban-planning problems of today, and to do so in the awareness that 21st century landscape architecture should be a ‘built’ reflection on how people deal with one another and with nature.
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City by Landscape documents the work of Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten + Stadtplaner. The company’s overriding objective is to find answers to the urban-planning problems of today, and to do so in the awareness that 21st century landscape architecture should be a ‘built’ reflection on how people deal with one another and with nature.
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June 2012
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Presenting a wealth of archival and newly commissioned photography and insightful text, David P. Colley and Elizabeth Keegin Colley trace the park's colorful history from its creation in the mid-nineteenth century to its decline in the 1970s and restoration in the 1980s, up to the park's new Lakeside Center facility, scheduled to open in 2013.
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Presenting a wealth of archival and newly commissioned photography and insightful text, David P. Colley and Elizabeth Keegin Colley trace the park's colorful history from its creation in the mid-nineteenth century to its decline in the 1970s and restoration in the 1980s, up to the park's new Lakeside Center facility, scheduled to open in 2013.
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Prospect Park: Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn Masterpiece
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Presenting a wealth of archival and newly commissioned photography and insightful text, David P. Colley and Elizabeth Keegin Colley trace the park's colorful history from its creation in the mid-nineteenth century to its decline in the 1970s and restoration in the 1980s, up to the park's new Lakeside Center facility, scheduled to open in 2013.
Prospect Park: Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn Masterpiece
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Presenting a wealth of archival and newly commissioned photography and insightful text, David P. Colley and Elizabeth Keegin Colley trace the park's colorful history from its creation in the mid-nineteenth century to its decline in the 1970s and restoration in the 1980s, up to the park's new Lakeside Center facility, scheduled to open in 2013.
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June 2013
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The landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz is known for projects that frequently trigger positive ecological benefits: depleted landscapes brought back to life by reintroducing native plant species; the resurgence of local animals; and the restoration of damaged ecosystems made possible through unconventional, cross-disciplinary collaborations with scientists,(...)
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The landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz is known for projects that frequently trigger positive ecological benefits: depleted landscapes brought back to life by reintroducing native plant species; the resurgence of local animals; and the restoration of damaged ecosystems made possible through unconventional, cross-disciplinary collaborations with scientists,(...)
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March 2013
March 2013
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Nelson Byrd Woltz : garden, park, community, farm
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The landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz is known for projects that frequently trigger positive ecological benefits: depleted landscapes brought back to life by reintroducing native plant species; the resurgence of local animals; and the restoration of damaged ecosystems made possible through unconventional, cross-disciplinary collaborations with scientists, sociologists, artists, biologists, and others who share their dedication to the stewardship of the land. This publication presents twelve examples of the firm's brand of sustainable design.
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The landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz is known for projects that frequently trigger positive ecological benefits: depleted landscapes brought back to life by reintroducing native plant species; the resurgence of local animals; and the restoration of damaged ecosystems made possible through unconventional, cross-disciplinary collaborations with scientists, sociologists, artists, biologists, and others who share their dedication to the stewardship of the land. This publication presents twelve examples of the firm's brand of sustainable design.
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Ce livre présente douze jardins réalisés par Louis Benech en France, du jardin du Soleil et des Nuages du château de Villandry au square Nicolas Forestier dans le 13e arrondissement de Paris, en passant par le parc d'une propriété en Sologne, un manoir normand, une ambiance très fleurie en Bretagne ou étonnamment exotique en plein Paris, un travail en Bourgogne sur les(...)
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Ce livre présente douze jardins réalisés par Louis Benech en France, du jardin du Soleil et des Nuages du château de Villandry au square Nicolas Forestier dans le 13e arrondissement de Paris, en passant par le parc d'une propriété en Sologne, un manoir normand, une ambiance très fleurie en Bretagne ou étonnamment exotique en plein Paris, un travail en Bourgogne sur les(...)
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Louis Benech, douze jardins en France
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Ce livre présente douze jardins réalisés par Louis Benech en France, du jardin du Soleil et des Nuages du château de Villandry au square Nicolas Forestier dans le 13e arrondissement de Paris, en passant par le parc d'une propriété en Sologne, un manoir normand, une ambiance très fleurie en Bretagne ou étonnamment exotique en plein Paris, un travail en Bourgogne sur les traces de Russell Page et le jardin du château de Pange qui a été honoré du label de jardin remarquable. Douze jardins extrêmement différents qui reflètent les facettes d'un talent reconnu dans le monde entier.
Louis Benech, douze jardins en France
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Ce livre présente douze jardins réalisés par Louis Benech en France, du jardin du Soleil et des Nuages du château de Villandry au square Nicolas Forestier dans le 13e arrondissement de Paris, en passant par le parc d'une propriété en Sologne, un manoir normand, une ambiance très fleurie en Bretagne ou étonnamment exotique en plein Paris, un travail en Bourgogne sur les traces de Russell Page et le jardin du château de Pange qui a été honoré du label de jardin remarquable. Douze jardins extrêmement différents qui reflètent les facettes d'un talent reconnu dans le monde entier.
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December 2012
December 2012
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