Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today

ISBN-13: 9781138343955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

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This book is an inquiry into the themes, theories, and debates on color and its impact on practice in Western landscape architecture over the past three centuries. Richly designed and illustrated in full color throughout, this book is a must-have resource for students, scholars, and professionals in landscape architecture.

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Part I: Pre-Modernism  1. Structural Color: Uniform Verdure, Humphry Repton (1752–1818)  2. Artificial Color: Bright and Complementary, J. C. Loudon (1783–1843)  3. Color as Impression: Graduated Harmony, William Robinson (1838–1935) and Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932)  Part II: Modernism  4. Material and Phenomenal Color: Simultaneous Contrast, Gabriel Guevrekian (1900–70)  5. Spatial Color: A-Chrome, Garrett Eckbo (1910–2000)  6. Symphony of Color: Tropical Saturation, Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94)  Part III: Postmodernism, Onward  7. Conceptual Color: Purely Synthetic, Martha Schwartz (b. 1950)  8. Affective Light Color: Translucence, Petra Blaisse (b. 1955)  9. Color Now: Gender, Skin, and Screen  Postscript: Color Prospects

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Mira Engler studied landscape architecture and architecture. She is an Emerita Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University. Her first book Designing America’s Waste Landscapes explores societal and professional attitudes toward waste and the design of dumps and sewage grounds. Her second book Cut and Paste Urban: Landscape: The Work of Gordon Cullen explores image making in landscape and urban design in the postwar consumer culture era through the drawings and writing of Gordon Cullen. She currently studies immersive landscapes and virtual media culture.