Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Landscape

Die Verwendung neuartiger Materialien stellt einen wichtigen Trend in der Landschaftsarchitektur dar. Dazu gehoren z.B. biologisch abbaubare Geotextilien, superabsorbierende Polymere und Pflanzen, die sensitiv auf sich wandelnde Bodenbedingungen reagieren. Die verfugbaren Materialien und Technologien werden in ihrer teils experimentellen, teils ausgereiften Anwendung dargestellt.

"Wir verkaufen nicht den Garten, wir verkaufen das Bild eines Gartens." Dieser Satz eines Landschaftsarchitekten macht deutlich, wie wichtig die Vermittlung des Entwurfs an die Bauherren und die Offentlichkeit ist. Das Buch beschreibt die Methoden und Formen der visuellen Darstellung in der aktuellen Landschaftsarchitektur.

With their centuries-long development, the English landscape garden, the formal French garden, as well Japanese and Chinese gardens constitute an unparalleled repository of design solutions familiar throughout the world. They are frequently drawn upon as reference works, but often in a piecemeal and haphazard fashion and from botanical or art-historical vantage points.

That is where the books of this new series come in. They present the various garden types from the perspective of contemporary landscape and garden design. Starting from the formidable beauty of the world's most...

Im Horizont der globalen Erwarmung bekommt die Bau-Aufgabe schattenspendende Konstruktion eine immer starkere Bedeutung. Im Ersten Teil des Buches werden durch Fachautoren die typischen Formen Schatten werfender Konstruktionen sowie die entwerferische Herangehensweise dargestellt. Im Zweiten Teil sind in synoptischer Form nachschlagefreundlich 140 Pflanzen charakterisiert, die sich in der Praxis fur eine schattenspendende Bepflanzung in gemassigten, subtropischen und tropischen Zonen bewahrt haben. Im Dritten Teil werden 30 gebaute Projekte von renommierten Architekten und...

Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documents -- many of which have never before been published -- to explore public and private outdoor spaces in New Orleans and those who shaped them. The result offers the first in-depth examination of the city's landscape history.

Douglas presents this "beautiful and imposing" city as a work of art crafted by numerous influences. His survey from the colonial period to the twentieth century finds that geography, climate, and, above all, the multicultural...

Published in 1559 and appearing here for the first time in English, "La Villa" is a rare source of Renaissance landscape theory. Written by Bartolomeo Taegio, a Milanese jurist and man of letters, after his banishment (possibly for murder, Thomas E. Beck speculates), the text takes the form of a dialogue between two gentlemen, one a proponent of the country, the other of the city. While it is not a gardening treatise, "La Villa" reflects an aesthetic appreciation of the land in the Renaissance, reveals the symbolic and metaphorical significance of sixteenth-century gardens for their...

The modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political interests, green spaces represent far more than simply an effort to balance the man-made with the natural. A city's history with--and approach to--its parks and gardens reveals much about its workings and the forces acting upon it. Our green spaces offer a unique and valuable window on the history of city life.

The essays in Greening the City span over a century of urban history,...

Landscape architecture meets art in Munich. The new and extremely playful park in Munich covers a three-hundred meter section of railroad tracks and creates urgently needed open space for the neighborhood of Theresienhohe. This monograph examines the new park design in a number of essays and documents the design and production process.

What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disciplines, from domains as diverse as planning and design, the arts and humanities as well as the social and natural sciences, they are all fields of importance to the theory and practice of landscape architecture.

In the context of the EU funded LE: NOTRE Project, carried out under the auspices of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, international experts from a wide range of related fields were asked to...

What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disciplines, from domains as diverse as planning and design, the arts and humanities as well as the social and natural sciences, they are all fields of importance to the theory and practice of landscape architecture.

In the context of the EU funded LE: NOTRE Project, carried out under the auspices of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, international experts from a wide range of related fields were asked to...