Designed Landscapes: 37 Key Projects

ISBN-13: 9780367173081 / Angielski

Alan Tate; Marcella Eaton

Opis

Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of thirty-seven significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance. An informative and easy-to-read reference volume for practitioners and students alike, it presents key precedents in landscape architecture using site plans and recent photographs to showcase each project.

Organised and presented in twelve sections based on project type, each project is examined on the basis of date, previous site condition, designer(s), design intentions, current composition, unique features, ownership and management, and comparable projects. Each chapter offers an insightful critique of the featured projects.

Written by the authors of Great City Parks, the book posits that these carefully-selected key projects have maintained their status throughout the ages because they express values and design intentions that continue to inform the practice of the landscape architecture in the present day. The book concludes with a ten-point summary of lessons for professional practice gleaned from the studies.

Including a wide range of case studies from countries such as western Europe, USA, Canada, India, Japan and China, and lavishly illustrated with over 200 full-colour images, this book is a must-have volume for anyone interested in the history and current practice of landscape architecture.

Spis treści

1. Water 1.1 Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Viterbo, Italy – Terraced water garden 1.2 Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, Kashmir, India – Moghal pleasure garden 1.3 Miroir d’eau, Bordeaux, France – Water feature / focus of urban regeneration 2. Landform 2.1 Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington DC, USA – Terraced hillside garden 2.2 Parc Diderot, Courbevoie, France – Plunging landform 2.3 Northala Fields, Ealing, London – Conical roadside earthworks 3. Plant Collections 3.1 Villandry, Indre-et-Loire, France – Renaissance château garden + potager extraordinaire 3.2 Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, England – Manor house garden 4. Enclosed Spaces 4.1 Courtyards of the Alhambra, Granada, Spain – Moorish courtyards 4.2 Wang Shi Yuan, Suzhou, PR China – Classical Chinese garden 4.3 Paley Park, East 53^rd Street, New York, USA – Pocket park 5. Private Gardens 5.1 Entsu-ji, Kyoto, Japan – Zen monastery garden 5.2 Miller Garden, Columbus, Indiana, USA – Domestic garden 5.3 Little Sparta, Stonypath, Lanarkshire, Scotland – Concrete poet’s garden 6. Commemorative Landscapes 6.1 Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA – Rural cemetery 6.2 Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm, Sweden – Forest cemetery 6.3 Kennedy Memorial, Runnymede, Surrey, England – Memorial to president of United States 7. Private Parkland 7.1 Vaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy, France – Baroque chateau garden 7.2 Rousham Park, Oxfordshire, England – Arcadian parkland 7.3 Bloedel Forest Reserve, Washington State, USA – Forest reserve 7.4 Kröller-Müller Sculpture Garden, Netherlands – Sculpture garden 8. City Parks 8.1 Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris, France – City park on restored site 8.2 Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, USA – American pastoral city park 8.3 Landschaftspark, Duisburg-Nord, Germany – Post industrial city park 9. Campuses 9.1 Academical Village, University of Virginia, USA – University campus 9.2 St Catherine’s College, Oxford, England – University college campus 9.3 Deere & Company World Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, USA – Corporate headquarters 9.4 Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada – Government precinct 10. Linear Landscapes 10.1 Grand Rounds, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA – Urban parkway 10.2 Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia and North Carolina, USA – Rural parkway / national park 10.3 Promenade Samuel de-Champlain, Quebec City, Canada – Riverfront boulevard 11. Housing Landscapes 11.1 Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, USA – Garden suburb 11.2 Lafayette Park, Detroit, USA – Inner city housing 12. Urban Landscapes 12.1 Pienza, Val d’Orcia, Italy – Renaissance urbanism / medieval townscape 12.2 Savannah Wards and Squares, Georgia, USA – Enlightenment urbanism 12.3 Place Stanislas and Place de la Carrière, Nancy, France – Enlightenment civic design 12.4 Edinburgh New Town, Scotland – Georgian city extension

O autorze

Alan Tate is a Fellow and Past President of the United Kingdom Landscape Institute and a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. He has a PhD in Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art. Tate is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba where he was Head of Department for 12 years between 2000 and 2019.

Marcella Eaton has a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Manitoba and a PhD in Landscape Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art. She is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba and was Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Architecture from 2009 to 2015.