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The creation of park systems is a historically proven method for communities to stabilize and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950,(...)
Living cities: Three centuries of Park systems
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The creation of park systems is a historically proven method for communities to stabilize and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design—a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good—experienced a heyday. Park systems were successfully used as “green armatures” hosting public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative buildings, hospitals, and gardens. ''Living Cities'' offers a chronological survey of civic design based on more than 30 park systems on five continents. The examples range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Park an der Ilm in Weimar (1778) and John Nash’s Regent Street in London (1806) to Chicago’s park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice Braillard’s plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul. Matthew Skjonsberg’s book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational practice for creating human settlements.
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This exquisite survey presents a breathtaking sequence of full-page images – from landscape paintings and botanical drawings to ancient frescos, vintage book illustrations and contemporary photographs – revealing the tree as a source of inspiration throughout history. Spanning continents and cultures, ''Tree'' reflects the diversity of its subject, depicting giant(...)
Tree: exploring the arboreal world
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This exquisite survey presents a breathtaking sequence of full-page images – from landscape paintings and botanical drawings to ancient frescos, vintage book illustrations and contemporary photographs – revealing the tree as a source of inspiration throughout history. Spanning continents and cultures, ''Tree'' reflects the diversity of its subject, depicting giant sequoias, cherry blossoms, palms, poplars, ginkgoes and other species found across Earth’s forest biomes, in a wide-ranging selection of visuals dating from Ancient Greece to the present day. More than 300 images include Roman stone mosaics, illustrated Norse myths, Edo-period woodblock prints and living tree installations, each lavishly reproduced.
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Standing on Mont Ventoux near Avignon, the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch experienced an entirely new sensation that he described as 'stepping out of time and space'. On the mountain's summit he was as far as he could be from the 'world's stage all around'. The huge distance reduced reference points to insignificant specks down below, and everything in the panorama(...)
The invented land : a bird's-eye view of Dutch landscape architecture
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Standing on Mont Ventoux near Avignon, the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch experienced an entirely new sensation that he described as 'stepping out of time and space'. On the mountain's summit he was as far as he could be from the 'world's stage all around'. The huge distance reduced reference points to insignificant specks down below, and everything in the panorama seemed motionless, dispelling any notion of time. Petrarch had placed himself outside reality. That is what makes aerial photography so fascinating, writes Clemens M. Steenbergen, professor of landscape architecture at Delft University of Technology, in his introduction. The higher the viewpoint the greater the visual control and the more abstract the image. We can see whether a landscape has been shaped by man or is pure nature, how space and mass form one composition. Aerial photographer and landscape architect Peter van Bolhuis captures on camera the Dutch landscape: areas devoted to agriculture, forestry, nature, infrastructure and urban development. The pictures show us the achievements of a half century of landscape architecture. We see a landscape in which everything is precisely measured and demarcated, everything is planned and calculated, with no space left unattended. We see, writes Tracy Metz in one of the essays, 'a landscape that is the sum of negotiations about ever smaller parts'.
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décembre 2004, Wageningen, Netherlands
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À l’ère des mégapoles, de l’agriculture hors sol, des manipulations génétiques et du contrôle du territoire, il est tentant de dire que le mot de nature ne désigne plus rien. Pourtant, il fonctionne en continu comme un opérateur de nostalgie. Ici, dans ce numéro 3, nous avons voulu réfléchir, non en prétendant qu’existe et que doit être sauvée une essence de la nature(...)
Les cahiers de l'École de Blois 3
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À l’ère des mégapoles, de l’agriculture hors sol, des manipulations génétiques et du contrôle du territoire, il est tentant de dire que le mot de nature ne désigne plus rien. Pourtant, il fonctionne en continu comme un opérateur de nostalgie. Ici, dans ce numéro 3, nous avons voulu réfléchir, non en prétendant qu’existe et que doit être sauvée une essence de la nature ou du naturel, mais en observant ou en décrivant des fonctionnements ou en ouvrant des chemins de traverse : la forêt et la ville, les jardins anglais revisités, des projets pour un tramway en banlieue, une abbaye en Normandie, le cube rouge dans la vallée, etc. Textes et images en opus incertum dans ces cahiers où paysages et disciplines se croisent et se saluent mutuellement.
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Room 4.1.3, an Australian landscape architecture firm, is renowned for producing some of the world's most finely tuned design work, striking a balance between theory and praxis, design and planning. The firm's projects engage visitors in a way that few public spaces have before. Founded in the 1990s by Richard Weller and Vladimir Sitta, Room 4.1.3 has received awards in(...)
Room 4.1.3 : innovations in landscape architecture
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Room 4.1.3, an Australian landscape architecture firm, is renowned for producing some of the world's most finely tuned design work, striking a balance between theory and praxis, design and planning. The firm's projects engage visitors in a way that few public spaces have before. Founded in the 1990s by Richard Weller and Vladimir Sitta, Room 4.1.3 has received awards in more than forty open design competitions and is currently at work on a new city in Singapore, "fusion-polis." Adopting a new proscriptive approach, the designs exhibit a strong theoretical base that extends into cultural studies, art, geography, anthropology, and psychology. For example, the controversial Garden of Australian Dreams at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra is a veritable playground of meanings, invoking events of such varying cultural significance as the birth of Australia as a nation and the work of Jackson Pollock. This lavishly illustrated volume features many other award-winning Room 4.1.3 designs, including Namesti Miru in Prague, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, and Gallipoli Peace Park in Turkey. Internationally renowned scholars and critics provide essays that contextualize each project and ultimately argue for the primacy and efficacy of poetic and subversive imagination in the formation of our environment. The works collected here, both built and unbuilt, will introduce Room 4.1.3's iconic style to an ever-widening audience in North America and open up an international discourse on new meanings of landscape architecture.
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janvier 2005, Philadelphia
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The elements of garden architecture - paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks, and art - together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this beautifully illustrated and accessible book, landscape architect James van Sweden explains how to design and build a garden like a professional. He leads his readers on a tour through(...)
Architecture in the garden
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The elements of garden architecture - paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks, and art - together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this beautifully illustrated and accessible book, landscape architect James van Sweden explains how to design and build a garden like a professional. He leads his readers on a tour through some of his most exquisitely designed gardens in the country, in the city, in the suburbs, and by the shore. With an introduction by Penelope Hobhouse.
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The Arts and Crafts Movement, which began in the late 19th century in England and continued into the early 20th century there and in America, brought sweeping changes to the world of art and design. Celebrating simplicity, utility, handcraft, natural materials, and vernacular forms, its advocates produced a wide range of work, including architecture, furniture, ceramics,(...)
Gardens of the arts and crafts movement
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The Arts and Crafts Movement, which began in the late 19th century in England and continued into the early 20th century there and in America, brought sweeping changes to the world of art and design. Celebrating simplicity, utility, handcraft, natural materials, and vernacular forms, its advocates produced a wide range of work, including architecture, furniture, ceramics, stained glass, wallpaper, jewellery, and books. Not surprisingly, the gifted architects of the movement also turned their minds to garden design. This beautiful book features the gardens of Edwin Lutyens, C.F.A. Voysey, Gertrude Jekyll, Ellen Shipman, Charles and Henry Greene, and other Arts and Crafts designers, who created some of the loveliest manmade landscapes we have today. Author Judith B. Tankard, a noted garden historian, brings a fresh perspective and a wealth of original research to her subject. Illustrated with period watercolours and drawings, and with new photographs and garden plans made especially for this publication, the book promises to be an important resource for art and design historians, and a delight to all lovers of gardens.
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Si la Grande-Bretagne est bien connue pour ses superbes jardins, et en particulier pour ses jardins "de cottage", les créations contemporaines ne méritent pas moins d'être découvertes. Ce livre présente les créations de 12 paysagistes britanniques majeurs, parmi lesquels John Brookes, Julian Dowle, Anthony Paul et Sally Court. Du dépouillement minimaliste à la profusion(...)
Paysagistes britanniques et leurs créations
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Si la Grande-Bretagne est bien connue pour ses superbes jardins, et en particulier pour ses jardins "de cottage", les créations contemporaines ne méritent pas moins d'être découvertes. Ce livre présente les créations de 12 paysagistes britanniques majeurs, parmi lesquels John Brookes, Julian Dowle, Anthony Paul et Sally Court. Du dépouillement minimaliste à la profusion romantique, ces jardins reflètent, par la diversité de leurs styles, les différents courants de création actuels. Les magnifiques photos pleine-page du livre illustrent les plus belles réalisations de chacun des paysagistes. En complément, le texte fournit les informations essentielles sur les différents projets et sur leurs créateurs.
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Japanese garden design
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A landscape architect and garden designer working in Japan, Keane here offers a history of the Japanese garden over 20 centuries, showing how society, politics, religion, art, and the tea ceremony have contributed to the structure and elements of these beautiful retreats. He also includes chapters on design principles and techniques, explaining, for instance, how(...)
Japanese garden design
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A landscape architect and garden designer working in Japan, Keane here offers a history of the Japanese garden over 20 centuries, showing how society, politics, religion, art, and the tea ceremony have contributed to the structure and elements of these beautiful retreats. He also includes chapters on design principles and techniques, explaining, for instance, how individual aspects such as rock, sand, plants, and bridges embody the symbolism of the gardens. This comprehensive book includes not only excellent full-colour photography but detailed plans of the various types of gardens. An extensive glossary, a bibliography of books in English and Japanese, and numerous maps are also offered. The text concludes with a timetable mapping the evolution of the garden alongside events in Japanese culture and world history.
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Providing at once a vast panorama and an analysis of contemporary European garden art, this volume reveals the multiple historical, artistic, architectural, scientific, technological and aesthetic influences that have contributed to the horticultural masterpieces of the twenty-first centuries.
Contemporary history of garden design : european gardens between art and architecture
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Providing at once a vast panorama and an analysis of contemporary European garden art, this volume reveals the multiple historical, artistic, architectural, scientific, technological and aesthetic influences that have contributed to the horticultural masterpieces of the twenty-first centuries.
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