Titre et auteur:

Modern landscape architecture : a critical review / edited by Marc Treib.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.

Description:

xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Based on papers presented at a symposium held in 1989, at the University of California at Berkeley.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
American landscape tastes / Peirce Lewis -- Modernism and American landscape architecture / Catherine Howett -- Axioms for a modern landscape architecture / Marc Treib -- Freedom in the garden ; Plants dictate garden forms ; Articulate form in landscape design ; Why not try science? / James C. Rose -- Landscape design in the urban environment ; Landscape design in the rural environment ; Landscape design in the primeval environment / Garrett Eckbo, Daniel U. Kiley, and James C. Rose -- A model for modernism : the work and influence of Pierre-Émile Legrain / Dorothée Imbert -- New pioneering in garden design / Fletcher Steele -- Erik Glemme and the Stockholm park system / Thorbjörn Andersson -- The dialogue of modern landscape architecture with its past / John Dixon Hunt -- Christopher Tunnard : the garden in the modern landscape / Lance M. Neckar.
Modern gardens for modern houses : reflections on current trends in landscape design / Christopher Tunnard -- Thomas Church, California gardens, and public landscapes / Michael Laurie --"Organic form in the humanized landscape" : Garrett Eckbo's Landscape for living / Reuben M. Rainey -- Pilgrim's progress / Garrett Eckbo -- Modern and classical themes in the work of Dan Kiley / Gregg Bleam -- Selected work and comments / Dan Kiley -- The practice of landscape architecture in the postwar United States / Peter Walker -- Landscape and common culture since modernism / Martha Schwartz -- Pointing a finger at the moon : the work of Robert Irwin / Marc Treib.

Résumé:

These 22 essays assess the tenets, accomplishments and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and formulate ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline. The historical and cultural framework within which modern landscape designers have worked is also explored.

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262200929
9780262200929
9780262700511
0262700514

Sujet:

Landscape architecture Congresses.
Architecture du paysage Congrès.
Landscape architecture.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Architecture du paysage Europe Congrès.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis Congrès.
Landscape design

Classification/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Vedettes secondaires:

Treib, Marc.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 85519
Cote: ID:93-B1661
Statut: Disponible