On Site. Landschapsarchitectuur in Europa
Aurora Carapinha, Lisa Diederich, Ana Kuean, Yttje Feddes, Dirk Sijmons
On Site is the triennial yearbook of European landscape architecture. Produced for the Landscape Architecture Europe Foundation (LAE) and the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture (EFLA), it aims to be the standard, critical review of the state of the art of European landscape architecture.
The first book published in 2006, Fieldwork, explored the tendency in Europe for new urban forms built on former agricultural land to use the patterns and land forms of the former agricultural use. The title, On Site, refers to attitudes to place or locus. In Europe, it is the specific site and the landscape architect’s sensitivity to its intrinsic geographical and historical characteristics and processes that inspire new functions and forms. European landscape architecture is not about inflicting pre-determined patterns on nowhere sites. The European landscape is a small, diverse, densely built, and domesticated space that is rich in landscape architectural genius. This genius aims to deeply experience a site, to develop it and produce technically intelligent and sensually rich open spaces. Climate change, economic changes and an increased mobility in the extended urban agglomerations of today require new landscapes and urban open spaces.
On Site presents pioneering projects and strategies in landscape architecture from Berlin to Bordeaux, from Akkarvikodden in Norway to Évora in Portugal. The projects are supplemented by essays on subjects that arise from the projects, like Bordeaux’s urban policies, Portugal’s landscape pioneers, playscape and public space, hybridization of infrastructure and landscape. An independent jury of practicing landscape architects from various European countries has selected the projects, 48 from the 450 submitted, and the texts have been edited by a team of experienced European professionals.

Hardcovers / 264 pagina's / tekst Nederlands / juni 2009
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Landschapsarchitectuur en stedenbouw in Nederland 03–07
Mark Hendriks, Peter Paul Witsen, Robert Broesi
Landschapsarchitectuur en stedenbouw in Nederland 03 – 07 is de zesde in de reeks van jaaroverzichten. Een onafhankelijke commissie bestaande uit Ank Bleeker, Robert Broesi, Tineke Blok, Harro de Jong en Anna Vos selecteerde dit keer 34 voorbeeldige projecten. De selectie wordt ingeleid door het eassay ‘De onnavolgbare ontwerper’ van Peter Paul Witsen. Robert Broesi beschrijft in zijn essay ‘Waterscheidingen’ de verhouding tussen de wateropgave en het ontwerp van het ‘Kunstwerk Nederland’. Een foto–essay met foto’s van Peter van Bolhuis gaat hieraan vooraf. De project zijn beschreven door Mark Hendriks. Ze zijn voorzien van korte inleidingen door Sjoerd Cusveller (‘Dorpsstraat Ons Dorp’), Henri Goverde (‘Participatie tussen recept en illusie’) en Eric Luiten (‘Opdat wij niet vergeten’).
In een geheel herziene grafische vormgeving geeft Landschapsarchitectuur en stedenbouw in Nederland 03 – 07 een fraai overzicht van actuele landschapsarchitectonische en stedenbouwkundige projecten en ontwikkelingen. Het stelt beroepsgenoten, opdrachtgevers en andere geïnteresseerden in staat op de hoogte te blijven van de state of the art van de landschapsarchitectuur en de stedenbouw in Nederland.

Paperback / 224 pagina's / tekst Nederlands / maart 2008
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Architectuur en Landschap / Het ontwerpexperiment van de klassieke Europese tuinen en landschappen
Wouter Reh, Clemens Steenbergen
Architectuur en Landschap is een innovatieve analyse van het ontwerpproces van de historische tuinen en villa-landschappen van Europa. Het behandelt meer dan dertig voorbeelden, achtereenvolgens de klassieke tableaus van de Italiaanse renaissance-villa's, de geometrische composities van de Franse baroktuinen en de panoramische composities van de Engelse landschapstuinen. Luchtfoto's, analysetekeningen en axonometrische modellen leggen het subtiele onderhandelingsproces tussen architectuur en landschap bloot, waardoor wij het complexe verband tussen de plek en het programma beter kunnen begrijpen.
Architectuur en Landschap onderzoekt niet alleen wat de architectuur met het landschap doet, maar ook, en dat is nog belangrijker, wat het landschap met de architectuur doet. In het samengaan van deze twee ligt het vertrekpunt voor een eigenzinnige ontwerpcultuur.

Paperback / tekst Nederlands / 2003

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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 pagina's / 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 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2006

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Lexicon van de tuin- en landschapsarchitectuur
Meto J. Vroom
Abstractie, Allee, Allegorie, Poort, Ritme, Reliëf, Symbool, Zichtlijn. Emeritus hoogleraar M.J.Vroom levert in zijn 'Lexicon voor de landschapsarchitectuur' een wezenlijke inzicht in de betekenis van meer dan 300 begrippen in het vakgebied. Hij definiëert ze en licht ze toe in woord en beeld, onder verwijzing naar relevante literatuurbronnen. Een onmisbaar naslagwerk voor iedereen die betrokken is bij de tuin- en landschapsarchitectuur. Een bijdrage aan de opbouw van een theoretisch kader, maar ook een boeiende en soms prikkelende ingang tot een vakgebied dat de laatste decennia sterk aan het aanzien van stad en land heeft bijgedragen.

Hardcover / tekst Nederrlands / 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 pagina's / tekst Engels / januari 2009
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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Landscape Design
Alex Sánchez Vidiella
The Sourcebook of Contemporary Landscape Design is the first large-scale book of its kind to showcase a complete and diverse range of landscapes created in the past ten years. This thorough collection of in-depth case studies incorporates every type of landscape design project possible, from those at private homes and offices to large-scale government-sponsored creations.

Hardcover / 600 pagina's / tekst Engels / december 2008
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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 pagina's / tekst Engels / 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 pagina's / tekst Engels / april 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 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2007

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Living Systems. Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture
Liat Margolis, Alexander Robinson
Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book proposes a synthesis between technology and theory, focusing on growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena. Projects and materials are cross-referenced according to performance criteria, processes, and properties. Each of the 36 international projects and 23 material technologies is presented with drawing details and construction photographs.

Hardcover / 192 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2007

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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 pagina's / tekst Engels / 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 pagina's / tekst Engels en Spaans / 2007

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