Lexicon Of Garden And Landscape Architecture

Author : M. J. Vroom
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lexicon of Garden and Landscape Architecture written by M. J. Vroom and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the lexicon of garden and landscape architecture, Professor Meto J. Vroom gets to the heart of over 250 key landscape concepts. Through definition, illustration and reference to the essential literature, he delineates and expands the theoretical framework of his discipline, thereby opening a fascinating gateway towards understanding change in our urban and rural landscapes. This work will prove an indispensable point of reference for all those involved in landscape architecture - practitioners and amateurs alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Meto J. Vroom
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 9783764393274
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lexicon of Garden and Landscape Architecture written by Meto J. Vroom and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lexicon serves to clarify important terms and expressions that designers use on a daily basis. More than that, it also constitutes a general introduction to the major themes of landscape design.

Author : Baker H. Morrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Landscape Architecture written by Baker H. Morrow and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Therese O'Malley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300101744
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keywords in American Landscape Design written by Therese O'Malley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated historical dictionary of landscape design vocabulary used in North America from the 17th to the mid-19th century defines a selection of one hundred terms and concepts used in garden planning and landscape architecture. Ranging from alcove, arbor, and arch to veranda, wilderness, and wood, each term presents a wealth of documentation, textual sources, and imagery. The broad geographic scope of the texts reveals patterns of regional usage, while the chronological range provides evidence of changing design practice and landscape vocabulary over time. Drawing upon a wealth of newly compiled documentation and accompanied by more than 1,000 images, this dictionary forms the most complete published reference to date on the history of American garden design, and reveals landscape history as integral to the study of American cultural history.

Author : Jane Wolff
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007917
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bay Lexicon written by Jane Wolff and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us. We lack the vocabulary to describe our surroundings, and this lack of understanding limits our ability as citizens to contribute to political decisions about the landscape of cities, especially at the edges where land meets water. Bay Lexicon, a field guide to San Francisco's shoreline, is a case study in establishing a working language for hybrid landscapes. Centred on a walk along the edge of the iconic San Francisco Bay, it documents, deciphers, and classifies the places and phenomena a person encounters – and the forces, histories, and interactions that underlie what is visible. In a unique synthesis of text and drawing, Jane Wolff applies analytical and representational tools based in design and documentary work to findings from the fields of geography, environmental and cultural history, public policy, urban ecology, and landscape studies. As our cities face increasing pressure caused by climate change, we will need to reimagine them in terms that do justice to their complexity. Bay Lexicon's methods for building landscape literacy are meant for translation, adaptation, and use far beyond San Francisco Bay. Through activist scholarship that cuts across disciplinary boundaries and levels of expertise, this book examines how the landscape at the water's edge works, documents its historical evolution, brings its citizens' values to light, and frames conversations about how and why it might change.

Author : Hazel White
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781935935469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Land written by Hazel White and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gardens in Living Land are growing on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, in the valleys of the California coastal hills, in tight urban lots, and on spacious residential estates. Each one demonstrates Eric and Silvina Blasens' ability to intensely intuit and beautifully forge a relevant, contemporary dynamic between architecture and land.

Author : Samuel Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Landscape Architecture written by Samuel Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Raxworthy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547120
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overgrown written by Julian Raxworthy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way. Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches—from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist's “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening.

Author : Astrid Zimmermann
Publisher : Birkhaüser
ISBN 13 : 9783034607360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Landscape written by Astrid Zimmermann and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a systematic introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics covered, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants. The text is supported by over 1200 photographs, illustrations and plans.

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231504
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Afterlife of Gardens written by John Dixon Hunt and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on the history of gardens describe the way that gardens have been created; by contrast, The Afterlife of Gardens examines the way that gardens have been experienced. Using examples from many sites around the world, John Dixon Hunt examines responses to gardens, from Renaissance sites to Baroque creations to modern motorway landscaping. Examining how a garden has been experienced extends its history beyond the physical into cultural terms, and the author describes how this ‘afterlife’ of gardens, as they are understood and experienced by many generations, is often ‘redesigned’ in visitors’ imaginative and cultural responses. The author looks at many aspects of the subject, including the enigmatic Hypnerotomachia Polifili of 1499; part fictional narrative and part scholarly treatise, this fascinating early narrative of garden reception paves the way for an exploration of subsequent landscapes and their reception in later periods. He also looks at Italian Renaissance gardens; the Picturesque; the architectural and inscriptional elements of gardens; the ways experiences of gardens have been recorded; and the different kinds of movement within gardens, from the strolling pedestrian to the motorway traveller who experiences landscapes at speed. In this ambitious new book the author shows how the complete history of a garden must extend beyond the moment of its design and the aims of the designer to record its subsequent reception. He raises questions about the preservation of historical sites, and provides lessons for the contemporary designer, who may perhaps be more attentive to the life of a work after its design and implementation. This book will interest all who have a professional interest in gardens, as well as the wide general audience for gardens and landscapes of past and present.