Dancing in the Landscape: The Sculpture of Athena Tacha is the most comprehensive presentation of Athena Tacha's outdoor public art of the past 25 years. One of the initiators of "site-specific" architectural sculpture - a significant shift in attitude that brought "land art" into a social context - Tacha has been a finalist in more than 135 national and international competitions. Of the 42 commissions she won, 30 have been executed throughout the United States, from New York to Arizona, Florida to Alaska, including an entire city-block park in downtown Philadelphia. Trained in Greece, France and America as both an artist and art historian, Tacha has always written articulate texts for her proposals and most of these texts are published in this book for the first time. Her executed commissions are presented in large illustrations together with smaller reproductions of 58 models for upbuilt projects, each with an explanatory statement. Through her candid documentation of successes and failures in working with public commissions, Tacha offers her wide experience with hundreds of competitions. As a result, artists, landscape architects, historians, critics and collectors with an interest in the history of public art will find Dancing in the Landscape an invaluable reference.

Dancing in the Landscape

Arts & Photography

Senie, Harriet F.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

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David M. Schwarz Architects 2002-2007

Miller, Robert L.

Architecture

How a Philadelphia organization initiated a program to plan and create public art projects with the community.

New * Land * Marks: Public Art, Community and Meaning of Place

History & Criticism

AndersonMasonDale is a monograph of the complete work of the Denver, Colorado firm of AndersonMasonDale. Spanning 25 years, the work of AndersonMasonDale has been informed by a variety of influences yet most inspirited by the notions of program, context and craft. The founding partner of AndersonMasonDale, John Anderson, is the incoming president of the American Institute of Architects and this book is published in conjuction with his becoming the elected leader of this 50,000 member organization.

Anderson Mason Dale Architects

Since 1976, David M. Schwarz/Architectural Services has established an international reputation for acutely sensitive urbanism, architecture, historic preservation, interiors, furniture, and decorative arts, reinvigorating the notion of a comprehensive design practice against the currents of ever-contracting professional specialization. From its early years completing commercial and residential commissions, the firm has extended its portfolio to health-care, institutional, cultural, academic, and sports architecture while resolving physical issues of increasing complexity in urban and, more recently, suburban environments. This book presents a retrospective of the firm's work over its first 25 years. From its first office and apartment developments in the firm's hometown of Washington, D.C., to its progressive but tradition-steeped designs in Texas of the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall and the Ballpark in Arlington, to its landmark Environmental Sciences Center at Yale University, the firm makes its priorities clear.

David M. Schwarz

McKee, Bradford

Presents 19 gardens, complete with a garden plan for each book.

The Civilized Jungle: Residential Landscapes of Sanchez and Maddux

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Mikyoung Kim Monograph

Kim, Mikyoung

This monograph represents a fifty year overview of the work of Frank Schlesinger. His firm, Frank Schlesinger Associates, is unusual in that, despite its being relatively small, it has done a wide range of work in terms of both scale and building type. The size of the firm has been important to him in helping maintain a hands

The Architecture of Frank Schlesinger

Schlesinger, Frank

This monograph by Monterrey, MX based Gilberto L. Rodriguez features eleven of his most stunning and elaborate Modern houses and mixed-use projects. In addition, there is a section devoted to works in progress as well as a selected chronology of his work.

The Architecture of Gilberto L. Rodriguez

Whether a home is a great place to live often depends on what lies beyond its walls. The landscape - when it has a well-thought-out shape and character - gives a home much of its character and satisfaction. In The Private Oasis, two of New York's leading landscape architects, Edmund Hollander and Maryanne Connelly, guide readers through a series of remarkable landscapes and gardens, explaining how to apply their techniques, no matter what the size of the reader's property. Since founding Edmund D. Hollander Landscape Architect Design in 1990, Hollander and Connelly and the more than a dozen landscape architects on their staff have designed hundreds of residential landscapes, from the palatial to the somewhat more modest. Every landscape, they believe, has a story to tell. The aim of the landscape architect, when working with the homeowners, the site, and the architecture of the house, is to decide what that story is, and see that it is told well. You can't plant whatever you want, wherever you want it. You can't rearrange the earth arbitrarily. You have to respond to the makeup of the land and its water flows, its vegetation, wildlife and other features using that knowledge to fashion a living landscape. That was a key precept Hollander and Connelly learned from the pioneer of ecological planning, Ian McHarg, and it undergirds all their thinking. Hollander and Connelly marry factors from nature to an understanding of human ecology. Says Connelly: "The solution is always driven by who will be using the landscape and how they will be using it." The Private Oasis focuses on built elements in the landscape including the entry, seating and gathering places, outdoor dining, swimming pools and water features and tennis courts. It is lavishly illustrated with over 1000 color photographs. A successor volume will focus on plantings. Together, the two volumes will give readers a comprehensive orientation to the making of residential landscapes.

The Private Oasis: The Landscape Architecture of Edmund Hollander Design

Langdon, Philip

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