Fortführung des vielbeachteten Buches "Kienast Gärten ? Gardens". Das auf drei Bände angelegte Werk bildet die Gesamtdarstellung der Gartenkultur Dieter Kienasts. Der Landschaftsarchitekt Dieter Kienast, geb.1945, gehört zu den wichtigsten Protagonisten der gegenwärtigen Landschaftsarchitektur. Er war von 1980 bis 1991 Professor in Rapperswil, von 1992 bis 199...

The past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape. While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, it also implies renewal, invention, and transformation. Recovering Landscape collects a number of essays that discuss why landscape is gaining increased attention today, and what new possibilities might emerge from this...

This publication appears in conjunction with the series of exhibitions entitled 'Landscape 9 + 1 Young Dutch Landscape Architects' held in the NAi. Both the exhibitions and the book are a sequel to 'Nine + One Ten Young Dutch Architectural Offices', the nationally and internationally acclaimed series featuring young architectural practices. Landscape gives insight into...

Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, and philosophy and politics. It investigates the relations between garden aesthetics and metaphysics, discussing issues similar to those raised by Weiss's critically acclaimed Mirrors of Infinity. The W...

Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu N...

These twenty-two essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture, and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline. Modern Landscape Architecture brings together seminal articles from the 1930s and 1940s by Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, James Rose, Fletcher Steele, a...

One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrated innovative design ideas in a social setting. This engagement with soci...

This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, argues that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. T...

Ein Kraftwerk wird zum Landschaftsgarten: b&k+ fanden durch ihr Kraftwerksprojekt für die EXPO 2000 in Hannover internationale Beachtung. Der Bau wird von einem riesigen folienbespannten, bepflanzten und nur durch die Abwärme des Kraftwerks klimatisch bestimmten Zwischenraum geprägt, den die EXPO-Besucher zum Verweilen in der »Natur« nutzen können. Im Austausch mit...

Cultures are shaped by place. Forests inspire tree worship; rivers are gods. These cultural constructs are the source of "landscapes," the transformation of earth into metaphor. Schama, a fluidly creative scholar and adept author with far-ranging interests, has conducted what he describes as an "excavation" of Western culture's profound landscape tra...