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La société antique tenait ses morts à bonne distance de la cité, enfermés dans de vastes nécropoles ou dans des mausolées familiaux, le long des routes. Au Moyen Age, les morts furent au contraire attirés au cœur de l'habitat et ensevelis, le plus souvent de manière collective et anonyme, dans des terrains protégés que la population labourait et retournait régulièrement.(...)
Naissance du cimetière : lieux sacrés et terre des morts dans l'Occident médiéval
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La société antique tenait ses morts à bonne distance de la cité, enfermés dans de vastes nécropoles ou dans des mausolées familiaux, le long des routes. Au Moyen Age, les morts furent au contraire attirés au cœur de l'habitat et ensevelis, le plus souvent de manière collective et anonyme, dans des terrains protégés que la population labourait et retournait régulièrement. Ces lieux, auxquels fut bientôt donné le nom de "cimetières", accueillaient aussi des artisans dans leurs ateliers, des marchands dans leurs échoppes, des spectacles et des jeux, ou encore des assemblées de justice.
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April 2005, Paris
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Allain Provost est considéré comme l'un des principaux architectes-paysagistes des années 1960-2000 en France et en Europe. Illustré de plus de 500 photos et plans, cet ouvrage doit devenir un livre de référencetant pour les futurs (et actuels) professionnels que pour les maîtres d'ouvrage et plus largement pour un public qui porte de plus en plus d'intérêtaux grandes(...)
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March 2005, Oostkamp
Allain Provost, paysagiste : paysages inventés
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Allain Provost est considéré comme l'un des principaux architectes-paysagistes des années 1960-2000 en France et en Europe. Illustré de plus de 500 photos et plans, cet ouvrage doit devenir un livre de référencetant pour les futurs (et actuels) professionnels que pour les maîtres d'ouvrage et plus largement pour un public qui porte de plus en plus d'intérêtaux grandes réalisations de jardins et paysages publics.
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Best known as the firm chosen to work on the World Trade Center Memorial, the landscape architecture projects of Peter Walker and Partners vary both in scale and program: urban design and planning, corporate headquarters and university campuses, parks, plazas, museums, and gardens. Exploring the relationships of art, culture, and context, Walker and the members of the(...)
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March 2005, San Rafael, California
Peter Walker and Partners : defining the craft
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Best known as the firm chosen to work on the World Trade Center Memorial, the landscape architecture projects of Peter Walker and Partners vary both in scale and program: urban design and planning, corporate headquarters and university campuses, parks, plazas, museums, and gardens. Exploring the relationships of art, culture, and context, Walker and the members of the firm re-form the landscape, challenging traditional concepts of design. Through drawing, model-making, computer graphics, and full-size mock-ups, the office moves from defining the program to experimenting with materials and forming the space. The design process, therefore, faithfully reflects the constant exchange occurring with clients, architects, and consultants. A knowledge of history and tradition and an understanding of contemporary needs and patterns of living allow the firm to produce landscapes that are both timeless and unique. This extensive monograph opens with a short essay about the organization and history of the office, the importance of apprenticeship in landscape architectural education, and the particular way that PWP artfully practices the craft of landscape architecture. It features nearly 300 images (with 3 gatefolds) of the firm’s work since 1997, including 16 built landscape projects in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Seven projects in progress include the American Embassy in Beijing, several university campuses, and the World Trade Center Memorial. The 10 site-planning and urban design projects include Millennium Parklands in Sydney, Australia, and the Novartis Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Each section begins with a brief introduction by Walker, and the book concludes with four competition entries, including one for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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March 2005, San Rafael, California
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The past decade has witnessed a profound transformation in European landscape architecture, away from the formal, centrally-planned garden art that hallmarks traditional European parks, toward projects, often the result of interdisciplinary cooperation between architects, artists, and landscape architects, of a more informal, almost exploratory, nature. "In Gardens"(...)
In gardens : profiles of contemporary European landscape architecture
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The past decade has witnessed a profound transformation in European landscape architecture, away from the formal, centrally-planned garden art that hallmarks traditional European parks, toward projects, often the result of interdisciplinary cooperation between architects, artists, and landscape architects, of a more informal, almost exploratory, nature. "In Gardens" examines more than thirty of the most influential recent landscape projects in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland, and from designers like Kathryn Gustafson, Dani Karavan, and Charles Jencks. In the process, this panoramic book illuminates a new paradigm of garden design in Europe and provides a fount of inspiration for landscape designers everywhere.
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American landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson, long one of the most respected in her field, recently garnered international acclaim with her Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. Moving Horizons, the first comprehensive monograph on her work, showcases her recent projects for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Millennium Garden in Chicago, the(...)
Moving horizons : the landscape architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners
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American landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson, long one of the most respected in her field, recently garnered international acclaim with her Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. Moving Horizons, the first comprehensive monograph on her work, showcases her recent projects for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Millennium Garden in Chicago, the Great Glass House in Wales, the Amsterdam Westergasfabriek Park, and the Garden of Forgiveness in Beirut. In total, thirty projects underline Gustafson's distinctive and highly artistic style, characterized by sensual sculptural forms that have made her the landscape designer of choice for architects like Norman Foster, Mecanoo, and Renzo Piano.
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The first publication in a a new series entitled Source Books in Landscape Architecture focusses on Michael Van Valkenburgh's recently completed Allegheny Riverfront Park project for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the city's efforts to restore its downtown district and riverfront, Van Valkenburgh, along with artists Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil, developed an(...)
Michael Van Valkenburg Associates : Allegheny Riverfront Park
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The first publication in a a new series entitled Source Books in Landscape Architecture focusses on Michael Van Valkenburgh's recently completed Allegheny Riverfront Park project for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the city's efforts to restore its downtown district and riverfront, Van Valkenburgh, along with artists Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil, developed an ambitious plan to reform the wasted land along the river into an urban refuge. This collaboration between landscape architect and artists produced a thoughtful, useful, and beautiful park that has successfully renewed the city's core.
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The mysterious world beneath the ocean's surface has captivated people for centuries - the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes for purposes other than the culinary. But it was not until the nineteenth-century invention of the aquarium that the deep was truly domesticated, offering the curiously inclined a chance to invent their very(...)
The ocean at home : an illustrated history of the aquarium
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The mysterious world beneath the ocean's surface has captivated people for centuries - the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes for purposes other than the culinary. But it was not until the nineteenth-century invention of the aquarium that the deep was truly domesticated, offering the curiously inclined a chance to invent their very own exotic sea world within their own walls. In this fascinating history of the aquarium, Bernd Brunner traces the development of this most wonderful invention, giving insight into the cultural and social circumstances that accompanied its swift rise in popularity. Brunner tells a compelling story of obsession, beauty, discovery, and delight, from the aquarium's humble origins as a tool for scientific observation to the Victorian era's elaborately decorated containers of oceanic curiosity, to the great public aquaria of the twentieth century.
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While sculpture remained central to his artistic practice, Isamu Noguchi’s (1904–1988) interests and production spanned an exceptionally broad terrain that included furniture and lamps, stage sets for dance, plazas, courtyards—and gardens. Noguchi made no distinction between design, craft, and the so-called fine arts: in his view all of these could all be considered art(...)
Noguchi's gardens: landscape as sculpture
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While sculpture remained central to his artistic practice, Isamu Noguchi’s (1904–1988) interests and production spanned an exceptionally broad terrain that included furniture and lamps, stage sets for dance, plazas, courtyards—and gardens. Noguchi made no distinction between design, craft, and the so-called fine arts: in his view all of these could all be considered art should their aesthetic qualities sufficiently transcend those generated by the simple address of need. Although his gardens include several of the twentieth century’s most iconic landscape designs and have received almost universal praise, Noguchi nonetheless occupies a place removed from the normal practice of landscape architecture. As an artist he relied more on intuition—bolstered by focused study where required—than on objective analysis, and he shaped his landscapes as sculpture, with space as their primary vehicle. To Noguchi landscape design was a spatial and formal art, and from his earliest environmental projects to the works of his later maturity, he succeeded in conceiving and constructing a series of remarkable places.
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Within this easy to understand book, you’ll learn how to; root cuttings and leaves in soil and water, germinate pips, pits and seeds along with other propagation techniques. From decorative house plants, to herbs and vegetables, this book will multiply your botanical abundance. Propagation projects include: popular herbs and edibles including rosemary, mint, thyme and(...)
Seeds and cuttings: A guide to germinating, cutting and multiplying 60 plants
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Within this easy to understand book, you’ll learn how to; root cuttings and leaves in soil and water, germinate pips, pits and seeds along with other propagation techniques. From decorative house plants, to herbs and vegetables, this book will multiply your botanical abundance. Propagation projects include: popular herbs and edibles including rosemary, mint, thyme and pineapple, fruit trees such as orange, olive and apple, popular decorative and indoor plants like monstera, pilea, marantha, and hoya.
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This authoritative reference on native and non-native trees of North America, by Smithsonian veteran W. John Kress, provides an unprecedented appraisal of more than 325 common species. More than a field guide, it includes over 300 range maps and 3,000 photographs of leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, and bark; an in-depth introduction to the biology of trees, their value,(...)
Smithsonian trees of North America
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This authoritative reference on native and non-native trees of North America, by Smithsonian veteran W. John Kress, provides an unprecedented appraisal of more than 325 common species. More than a field guide, it includes over 300 range maps and 3,000 photographs of leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, and bark; an in-depth introduction to the biology of trees, their value, structure, evolution, classification, ecology, and conservation; descriptions of each species, organized by genus and family; a reflection on the consequences of environmental change on the health of trees, now and in the future; a presentation, based on the latest technologies, of North American trees in a planetary and evolutionary perspective. "Smithsonian trees of North America", ten years in the making, marries science and art to provide an insightful and compassionate exploration of the diversity, structure, form, and beauty of trees.
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