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Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture Virginia McLeod
Detailing makes a landscape unique, and a landscape architect outstanding. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed landscape architects, the book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs.Each …
1000 x Landscape Architecture Braun
The Fourth volume of the successful series 'Colletion of Architecture' documents on 1000 pages this contemporary diversity by presenting 1000 projects bt well known and established as well as by young and upcoming landscape architects. Apart from …
Collection Landscape Architecture Chris Van Uffelen
Landscape architecture mediates between nature and buildings in its task to develop open spaces into habitats for people. Today, this task implies ecological problem solving in addition to aesthetics. Fruitful combination of organic and …
Great Public Squares An Architects Selection R Gatje
Here, analysed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison, are forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world. Robert Gatje explores the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice and Florence, the elegant places of Paris, via less familiar …
The Alchemy of Landscape Architecture George Hargreaves
Hargreaves Associates has been at the forefront of landscape architectural practice since its founding in 1983. This volume presents projects from throughout the firm's 25-year history, showing the development of its work from the early days to …
The Art of Landscape Architecture F Mola
Artistic interpretation of the landscape was transformed when artists started working directly in the landscape itself. At the same time, architects explored strategies aimed at integrating humans and habitats within the environment. This book …
Facade Greenery Chris van Uffelen
The greening of facades with plants gives a piece of nature back to the city. But a green facade is much more than a charming view: Thanks to its insulating effect, it evens out extreme swings in temperature, protects against UV radiation and …
The Universe in the Landscape Landforms by Charles Jencks
Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal landscapes that often arise from necessity - recycling a coal site for human use or making new use …
Palladio The Villa and the Landscape Gerrit Smienk
Andrea Palladio is universally regarded as one of the most important architects of the Re-naissance. He was the first 'professional architect' and was strongly influenced by Greek and Roman architecture, particularly by Vitruvius. His treatise '…
Landscape Infrastructure Case Studies by SWA
Infrastructure is currently a much discussed notion in the field of landscape architecture. It regards the entire urban and rural space as a network that calls for an integrated planning approach. Natural and man-made infrastructures are viewed …
Drawing for Landscape Architecture Sketch to Screen to Site Edward Hutchison
This essential publication reintroduces the importance of learning to see by hand, to visualize large-scale design schemes and explain them through drawing, before using the digital tools that are so crucial to efficient and cost-effective …
A+T Strategy Public Landscape Urbanism Strategies
This is the inaugural volume of a+t's new series on architectural strategy, dedicated to the study of design and project processes. 23 completed works of urban landscaping are analysed, and the project strategy assessed in each case. Contributors …
Interior Gardens Designing and Constructing Green Spaces in Private and Public Buildings
Gardens inside buildings represent a sustainable vehicle for a host of ecological and economic advantages. Factors such as improving the indoor climate and the workplace situation and hence increasing quality of life are the critical parameters …