Landscape Architecture and Town Planning in the Netherlands 03–07
Mark Hendriks, Peter Paul Witsen, Robert Broesi
Who are the people giving shape to the Netherlands? How do they do this and what are their motivations in doing so? Landscape architecture and town planning in the Netherlands 2003/2007 shows the best plans and projects within these two disciplines. More than thirty very special projects have been selected and commented on by an independent jury. Apart from this, a number of essays put into perspective today's major trends within the field of spatial design in the Netherlands. Special attention is for instance given to the water problem. Landscape architecture and town planning in the Netherlands 2003/2007 is the sixth publication in a series presenting the state of the art in Dutch landscape architecture and town planning.

Paperback / 224 pages / text English / August 2008
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New Landscape Architecture
Nicolette Baumeister
This book reflects the aesthetic and ecological effects of landscape architecture upon public spaces. It provides an overview of more than one hundred ways of structuring free spaces from the German speaking countries, such as the outdoor installations of the Allianz Arena in Munich, the Potsdammer Platz in Berlin, the Landesgartenschau 2006 in Wernigerode and the redesigned lake basin in Zurich. These projects are made comprehensible by means of texts, photographs, plans and drawings.

Hardcover / 352 pages / text English / 2007

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Groundswell / Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
Peter Reed
Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape presents twenty-three projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last twenty years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation and abandonment. The projects, found throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, were selected for their outstanding design, and to demonstrate a variety of scales, contexts, materials and types of spaces.
This fully illustrated volume includes an essay by Peter Reed, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, that demonstrates how these innovative projects expand the definition of the modernist landscape while responding to a variety of conditions such as social function and the transformation and reclamation of formerly industrial areas. The essay is followed by a full-colour plate section featuring the selected projects. Catalogue entries for each project provide a succinct description of the site, its transformation and design concepts illustrated by photographs, drawings and models.

Paperback / 168 pages / tekst Engels / 2005

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The Landscape Urbanism Reader
Charles Waldheim
With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discourse has emerged: landscape urbanism.
In The Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheim - who is at the forefront of this new movement - has assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field's top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines and from around the world - including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre Bélanger, Julia Czerniak, and more - capture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new field. The Landscape Urbanism Reader is an inspiring signal to the future of city making as well as an indispensable reference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.

Paperback / 288 pages / text English / 2006

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Lexicon of Garden and Landscape Architecture
Meto J. Vroom
bstraction and hedge, interaction and landmark, labyrinth and synthesis, pond and utopia — the reader is confronted with a tremendous variety of terms, from the description of the various elements of a garden all the way to theoretical, historical, symbolic, and iconographic aspects of landscape design. Meto J. Vroom, a former professor of landscape architecture at Universität Wageningen, defines and analyzes more than 250 terms, concepts, and objects. While the definitions convey the universally recognized meaning of the headwords, each essay briefly outlines a subject with a critical commentary and numerous commendations for further reading.
Thus the lexicon serves to clarify important terms and expressions that designers use on a daily basis. More than that, however, it also constitutes a general introduction to the major themes of landscape design.

Hardcover / 352 pages / text English / 2006

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Constructing Landscape. Materials, Techniques, Building elements
Astrid Zimmermann
Constructing Landscape is a systematic introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants. For landscape architects and architects it is an indispensable guide to correct and professional execution planning as well as to preparing solid and well-thought-out requests for proposal. Constructing Landscape is divided into two sections, Materials and Surfaces and Building Construction and Building Elements. The first section provides an overview of the various building materials of landscape architecture and their specific characteristics. It also explains the qualities of surfaces and the different approaches to treating them. The second section begins with an introductory chapter explaining the principles of statics, the connections of load-bearing elements, and the various approaches to anchoring building compo-nents and supporting structures. The subsequent chapters use drawings and text to present the constructional principles and techniques associated with the various building elements. Each chapter concludes with a collection of sample projects, illustrated with photographs and technical drawings.

Paperback / 400 pages / text English / January 2009
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Avant-Gardeners: Fifty Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape
Tim Richardson, Martha Schwartz
For the past decade, garden and landscape design have seen a burgeoning of new ideas on space and the experience of the outdoors. Recent garden plans have embraced the latest thinking in materials, science, and interactive design, and have appropriated ideas from related disciplines such as architecture and product design, redefining and blurring the borders of nature and the man-made.
With distinctive projects by each featured designer, this book gives an encyclopedic look at the most advanced thinking in garden design, offering a rich archive for practitioners and enthusiasts alike. In addition to practice profiles, there are thematic sections that explain the underlying principles of these innovators' highly individual approaches to creating outdoor space. The book's introduction explains how a rising generation has rejected the Romantic, naturalistic tradition of Western garden design, favoring instead the influences of Modernism, Postmodernism, Pop Art, and Land Art. 500+ color illustrations.

Hardcover / 352 pages / text English / April 2008

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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 worlds most highly acclaimed landscape architects, this book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs. Each project is presented with colour photographs, site plans and sections as well as numerous construction details. There is also a brief descriptive text, detailed captions and in-depth information for each project. The projects are presented in clear and concise layouts over four pages. All commissioned especially for this book, the drawings are styled in a consistent manner and presented at standard architectural scales for easy comparison. Intended for architects, engineers and landscape architects, the book will also be invaluable for architecture, garden and landscape design students, for whom it will be a resource not only for understanding the work of the best contemporary landscape architects, but also as a tool for their own design work.

Hardcover / 208 pages / text English / April 2008

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Sensations / A Time Travel Through Garden History
Nadine Olonetzky
The history of European landscape design has its beginnings in the early cultures of the Mediterranean. Today, the park is still a site of design activity where human beings use living material to create an artificial landscape, a paradise. Sensations conjures up the history of the garden before the reader's eyes, from the Garden of Eden to the invention of the lawnmower. This beautiful survey of the development of landscape design from 4000 B.C. to the present contains thoughtfully written texts and an abundance of historical and contemporary images.

Hardcover / 128 pages / text English / 2006

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Vertical Gardens. Bringing the City to Life
Anna Lambertini
Vertical gardens are an exciting means of bringing life and greenery to a bleak courtyard, a grey city street or a cold modern building.
Those who create vertical gardens apply the principles of hydroponics (a technique of growing plants in water containing dissolved nutrients) and use ingenious framing systems that allow luxuriant plant life to colonize the exteriors of buildings.
This richly illustrated book will be essential reading for all professionals or anyone interested in this fertile new area of landscape design.

Hardcover / 440 pages / text English and Spanish / 2007

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