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"Hudson Modern" surveys this emerging domestic architecture, featuring nearly twenty houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the(...)
Hudson modern: residential landscapes
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"Hudson Modern" surveys this emerging domestic architecture, featuring nearly twenty houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the edge of habitation and nature. KieranTimberlake revises the classic vision of a glass box by cladding a home on a rocky site in Pound Ridge in a tapestry of steel, aluminum, copper, and glass. In Rhinebeck, Steven Holl experiments with a radical form that has both ecological and social dimensions.
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Riverside, Illinois, was designed in 1869 by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his architect partner Calvert Vaux. Their unique design, which followed the contours of the landscape and emphasized open spaces, inspired the greatest architects of the time to undertake projects in Riverside. Among those projects was the Avery Coonley Estate, a rare joint effort(...)
The gardener's cottage in Riverside, Illinois: Living in a
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Riverside, Illinois, was designed in 1869 by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his architect partner Calvert Vaux. Their unique design, which followed the contours of the landscape and emphasized open spaces, inspired the greatest architects of the time to undertake projects in Riverside. Among those projects was the Avery Coonley Estate, a rare joint effort by Frank Lloyd Wright and landscape architect Jens Jensen. At the center of the estate, itself a National Historic Landmark, sits the Gardener’s Cottage, a small but unassuming masterpiece built for the estate’s gardener and his wife. The cottage matches the architectural aesthetic of the estate, and its naturalistic, stunning gardens reflect the overall emphasis on landscape and nature in Riverside. But what is it truly like to live within a historic work of architectural art? Current owner and gardening writer Cathy Jean Maloney here records her discoveries and personal reflections on living in the Gardener’s Cottage with her family. In The Gardener’s Cottage in Riverside, Illinois, Maloney describes the cottage’s beginnings, providing biographical background and design insight into the house itself and Riverside’s key creators. She also highlights the often overlooked beauty of the cottage and illustrates how it is emblematic of Wright and Jensen’s holistic Prairie Style approach to building and landscape architecture. The size of the Gardener’s Cottage allows us to witness Wright’s aesthetic concerns in small detail and to understand his ideas on a more accessible and livable scale.
Architecture Monographs
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
January 2003, Rotterdam
Louis G. Le Roy : nature culture fusion
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Louis Le Roy has been working for more than thirty years on an enormous structure in a meadow at the Friesian settlement of Mildam near Heerenveen. There, on a two-hectare site, he piles up with his bare hands paving bricks, paving stones, kerbstones and other discarded street rubble while allowing nature to proceed about him unhindered. Le Roy calls this fascinating jungle populated by large stacked edifices an 'Eco-Cathedral'. Inspired by the Nobel Prize-winner Ilya Prigogine, Le Roy pondered the following question: 'What can one person achieve working with nature in space and time? This book zooms in on those two aspects crucial to his work: space and time. Le Roy's position on these concepts is at odds with the often rapid, super-efficient, function-hugging approach to greenspace and nature in the Netherlands. The Eco-Cathedral is a place where time regains space and space regains time. So the project he began is expected to be continued by others at least until the year 3000. The ideas underpinning Le Roy's project - the importance of the time factor in spatial processes, and working with complex, dynamic systems and networks - make it relevant to current discourse on architecture, urban design and spatial planning.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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This publication considers the architecture, landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of Blue Mountain and north to Lake Erie, including cities and communities big and small. The first comprehensive look at the built environment in this large and varied territory, the volume spans the years from the late eighteenth century through to the first decade of the(...)
History since 1900, Reference Books
April 2011
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania
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This publication considers the architecture, landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of Blue Mountain and north to Lake Erie, including cities and communities big and small. The first comprehensive look at the built environment in this large and varied territory, the volume spans the years from the late eighteenth century through to the first decade of the new millennium and reveals a range of architectural surprises. The authors discuss exemplary and everyday buildings and places — Harmonist villages, Carnegie libraries, river communities, amusement parks, farms and barns, the crossroads of Breezewood, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater among them — and canvass the scores of bridges, railroads, and inclines that cross the region's rivers, hills, and mountains. Descriptions of close to 150 of the commonwealth's small settlements, from coal patches to pike towns, capture the intense dialogue between industry and agriculture that typifies western Pennsylvania. Close to 400 illustrations, including photographs, maps, and drawings, bring the nearly 800 entries to life.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Over the last two decades, the University of Cincinnati has created a campus internationally recognized for its architecture and planning. It now boasts one of the most extensive collections of contemporary architecture anywhere in the country, and one of its most compelling recent additions is Moore Ruble Yudell's Joseph A. Steger Center for Student Life and associated(...)
Arc of interaction: Moore Ruble Yudell with Glaserworks
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Over the last two decades, the University of Cincinnati has created a campus internationally recognized for its architecture and planning. It now boasts one of the most extensive collections of contemporary architecture anywhere in the country, and one of its most compelling recent additions is Moore Ruble Yudell's Joseph A. Steger Center for Student Life and associated Main Street project. Conceived in collaboration with internationally recognized architects including Morphosis, Gwathmey Siegel and landscape architect George Hargreaves, the Main Street project forms a new spine of campus activity organized along major pedestrian and topographic paths.
Architecture Monographs
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In the highly variegated landscape of Dutch architecture, architect and urban designer Jo Coenen advocates a greater historical awareness, more depth, and a stronger sense of continuity. The richness of his imagination and the cogency of his commitment are reflected in his oeuvre. In six interviews with Jo Coenen on central themes in his work and extensive documentation(...)
Jo Coenen : from urban design to architectural detail
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In the highly variegated landscape of Dutch architecture, architect and urban designer Jo Coenen advocates a greater historical awareness, more depth, and a stronger sense of continuity. The richness of his imagination and the cogency of his commitment are reflected in his oeuvre. In six interviews with Jo Coenen on central themes in his work and extensive documentation of a large number of projects, this book presents his ideas on the fundamental importance of architecture: an inspiring reference work on a highly individual architect with a multi-faceted body of work.
Architecture Monographs
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This book documents a residency research project (2007–2017) founded by viaindustriae, a cultural non-profit organization and a collective that aims at investigating the intermediate territories between art and architecture, new forms of communication, and activating the artistic message through different methods. Initially based on specific research into a marginal and(...)
10 landscapes: documentary, inventory, utopia
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This book documents a residency research project (2007–2017) founded by viaindustriae, a cultural non-profit organization and a collective that aims at investigating the intermediate territories between art and architecture, new forms of communication, and activating the artistic message through different methods. Initially based on specific research into a marginal and radical rural-mountain landscape in Umbria that used "hypertextual" methods and projects to draw links between different sites and "thematic" landscapes, the outcome is a broad investigation, exhibition, and catalogue on public spaces, site-specific art practices, and interventions on landscape in Italy and beyond.
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Benrath Palace and park
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The Benrath Palace and Park ensemble harmoniously unites apparent opposites. Completed in 1770 according to plans drawn up by Nicolas de Pigage, architecture and landscape merge, complementing and enhancing one another. And so it is not surprising that the palace and gardens not only have landmark status, but that the park has also been declared a nature sanctuary. The(...)
Benrath Palace and park
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The Benrath Palace and Park ensemble harmoniously unites apparent opposites. Completed in 1770 according to plans drawn up by Nicolas de Pigage, architecture and landscape merge, complementing and enhancing one another. And so it is not surprising that the palace and gardens not only have landmark status, but that the park has also been declared a nature sanctuary. The Benrath Palace and Park Foundation has dedicated itself to the preservation of this unique symbiosis. It colorfully stages the encounter between the present and the past with its museums and events. Besides the history of the building and its use, this volume presents the work performed by the foundation at this exceptional site. Texts and magnificent pictures by the architectural photographer Marcus Schwier take readers on an extraordinary stroll through space and time.
History until 1900
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''Designed Forests: A Cultural History'' explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest’s influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of “forest thinking” for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today. It tackles these subjects by focusing on architecture’s own dispositions,(...)
Designed forests: A cultural history
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''Designed Forests: A Cultural History'' explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest’s influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of “forest thinking” for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today. It tackles these subjects by focusing on architecture’s own dispositions, which stem from an ecology of metaphor that surrounds its encounters with the forest and undergird ideas about Nature and natural systems. The book weaves together global narratives and chapters explore a range of topics, such as the invention of forest plans in colonial India, the war waged on the jungles of Vietnam, economic land use concepts in rural Germany, precolonial ecological pasts in Manhattan, and technologically saturated forests in California. This book is essential for landscape architects, urbanists, architects, forestry experts, and everyone concerned with larger environmental contexts and the ever-evolving relationship between nature and culture.
Landscape Theory
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Emotional Landscapes is a collection of photographs of plants, gardens and designs of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. The book is comprised of more than 100 photographs in 17 different Burle Marx's projects in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Sao Paulo, taken between 2011 and 2017 by Jonás Romo. With contributions (English and Portuguese) by Evangelos(...)
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Jonás Romo on Burle Marx: Emotional landscapes / paisagens para emocionar
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Emotional Landscapes is a collection of photographs of plants, gardens and designs of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. The book is comprised of more than 100 photographs in 17 different Burle Marx's projects in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Sao Paulo, taken between 2011 and 2017 by Jonás Romo. With contributions (English and Portuguese) by Evangelos Kotsioris, Marcel Steiner, Victor M. Rico Espínola, Daniel Rauchwerger, Pedro Ribeiro, Antonio Cobo and Sergio Rebelo. Illustrations by Jon Koko, Guillermo Santoma, Gabriel Ebensperger, Alexander Medel, Ana Montiel and Elliott Arndt.