Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-site - Couverture souple

Spens, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0470034793 ISBN 13 : 9780470034798

Editeur : Academy Press, 2007

Synopsis

Charting the latest advances in thinking and practice in 21^st-century landscape, this edition of AD looks at the degree to which landscape architects and architects have rethought and redefined the parameters for the interaction of buildings, infrastructures and surrounding landscape. Landscape Architecture: Site-Non-Site defines the key moves affected in the revision of landscape, using a compilation of some of the most current work in the field. Featured designers include: James Corner of Field Operations, Kathryn Findlay, Adriaan Geuze of West 8, Gross Max, Bernard Lassus, Gustafson Porter, Maggie Ruddick, Ken Smith and Michael van Valkenburgh. There are contributions from Lucy Bullivant, Peter Cook, Jayne Merkel, Juhani Pallasmaa and Grahame Shane.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Spens qualified as an architect at Cambridge University, and has received several design awards. He focuses on the engagement of architecture with landscape. Whilst researching Alvar Aalto, from 1993 he worked in support of a restoration programme for Aalto’s Viipuri Library in Russia that involved professionals from Russia and Finland, and published Viipuri Library 1927–1935: Alvar Aalto (Academy Editions, 1994). Knighted by the President of Finland, in 2002 he became University Reader in Architecture at Dundee University. Other publications include Landscape Transformed

(Academy Editions, l996) and Modern Landscape (Phaidon, 2003), and he also contributes to AD, Architectural Review, Architectural Research Quarterly and Topos (Munich).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academy Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470034793
• ISBN 13: 9780470034798
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 146
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible