The Crazannes Quarries by Bernard Lassus: An Essay Analyzing the Creations of a Landscape

Arts & Photography

Conan, Michel

Architecture

Spacemaker Press

In Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II: Making Postwar Landscapes Visible, noted historians, writers, preservationists, and landscape architects discuss the challenges of preserving and managing modern landscapes.

Making Postwar Landscapes Visible

Birnbaum, Charles A.

This collection of essays recounts recent efforts by the University of Miami and some of its local partners to devise an interdisciplinary approach to strengthening community in a distressed inner- city neighborhood. It also takes a hard look at the problems of community building, the potential of interdisciplinary and place-based curricula,

Reimaging West Coconut Grove

Quraeshi, Samina

This collection of critical essays and photographs provides an overview of nine recent projects of Jones &amp; Jones Architecture and Landscape Architecture. An introduction by the author provides personal and organizational history and context.

Living Places: The Architecture and Landscape Architecture of Jones and Jones

Contemporary European Landscape Design is based on an exhibition and conference of the same name held at the Harvard Universtiy Graduate School of Design. The book is based on the landscape design projects of more than 50 European designers from nine countries.

Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Disponzio, Joseph

Gardening & Landscape Design

Toward Legacy is a visual and literary walk through 35 years of evolution of the landscape architecture firm, Design Workshop. A formative point in that evolution was the development in 1998 of the philosophical statement around which the company has formed a systematic approach to its work. That statement has become a mandate: When environment, economics, art and community are combined in harmony with the dictates of the land and needs of society, magical places result. Places that lift the spirit. Sustainable places of timeless beauty, enduring quality and untold value - for our clients, for society and for the well being of our planet. These extraordinary landscapes are the result of Legacy Design. This book expresses through essays, project descriptions and case studies how Design Workshop seeks to move projects Toward Legacy.

Toward Legacy

Between 1963 and 1970, Lawrence Halprin and Associates realized a quartet of public plazas in Portland, Oregon, that redefined the city and set a bold new precedent for urban landscape architecture. Dubbed the Portland Open Space Sequence and composed of the Lovejoy Fountain, Pettygrove Park, and Forecourt Fountain (later renamed Ira Keller Fountain), plus the lesser known Source Fountain, the plazas were a dynamic collage of striking concrete forms, gushing water, and alpine flora that, in their seamless mix of nature and theater, created a playful metaphorical watershed coursing through the central city. Where the Revolution Began is the story of how these plazas came to be. Born of the creative experimentation and collaboration between Halprin and his wife, pioneering choreographer/ dancer Anna Halprin, the sequence came to life in the unlikely setting of the city's first scrape-and-rebuild urban renewal project. But Halprin defied the conventions of both American urban renewal and midcentury modernism, designing the kind of inviting, exuberant public space not seen seen since Renaissance Rome's Trevi Fountain and Piazza Navonna. For Halprin, the plazas became the first step in a career-long exploration of sequential works of landscape design, from the Haas Promenade in Jerusalem to the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. For Portland, Halprin's work marked the beginning of a tradition of remaking the city around interactive public spaces such as the famed Pioneer Courthouse Square. And for landscape architecture, the plazas offer some of the earliest precedents for the ecologically and socially responsive urbanism ascendant today.

Where the Revolution Began

Gragg, Randy

Where the Revolution Began : Lawrence and Anna Halprin and the Reinvention of Public Space

Gragg, Randy, editor

The Gardens of Florence Everts presents 11 residential gardens from the work of this Washington, DC-based landscape architect.

The Gardens of Florence Everts

Everts, Florence

Australia's most awarded landscape architecture and urban design firm, Taylor Cullity Lethlean illustrates eighteen of their leading projects, featuring critical essays from international contributors.

Making Sense of Landscape

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