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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, and Christopher Tunnard, while contemporary writers and designers such as Pierce Lewis, Catherine Howett, John Dixon Hunt, Peter Walker, and Martha Schwartz examine the historical and cultural framework within which modern landscape designers have worked.
"A comprehensive contribution to recent critical literature addressing a previously neglected period, Modern Landscape Architecture's richness lies in the quality and diversity of the viewpoints of its contributors, which together offer a three-dimensional picture of the period. An important resource for serious researchers of the role played by the United States in the development of a modern landscape architecture, this is also a book to be dipped into with great pleasure, sampling here and there." Elsa Leviseur, Architectural Review
Introduction | |
American Landscape Tastes | p. 2 |
Modernism and American Landscape Architecture | p. 18 |
Axioms for a Modern Landscape Architecture | p. 36 |
Freedom in the Garden [1938] | p. 68 |
Plants Dictate Garden Forms [1938] | p. 72 |
Articulate Form in Landscape Design [1939] | p. 73 |
Why Not Try Science? [1939] | p. 76 |
Landscape Design in the Urban Environment [1939] | p. 78 |
Landscape Design in the Rural Environment [1939] | p. 83 |
Landscape Design in the Primeval Environment [1940] | p. 88 |
A Model for Modernism: The Work and Influence of Pierre-Emile Legrain | p. 92 |
New Pioneering in Garden Design [1930] | p. 108 |
Erik Glemme and the Stockholm Park System | p. 114 |
The Dialogue of Modern Landscape Architectuire With Its Past | p. 134 |
Christopher Tunnard: The Garden in the Modern Landscape | p. 144 |
Modern Gardens for Modern Houses: Reflections on Current Trends in Landscape Design [1942] | p. 159 |
Thomas Church, California Gardens, and Public Landscapes | p. 166 |
"Organic Form in the Humanized Landscape": Garrett Eckbo's Landscape for Living | p. 180 |
Pilgrim's | p. 206 |
Modern and Classical Themes in the Work of Dan Kiley | p. 220 |
Selected Works and Comments by Dan Kiley | p. 240 |
The Practice of Landscape Architecture in the Postwar United States | p. 250 |
Landscape and Common Culture Since Modernism | p. 260 |
Pointing a Finger at the Moon: The Work of Robert Irwin | p. 266 |
Epilogue | p. 286 |
Index | p. 290 |
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ISBN: 9780262700511
ISBN-10: 0262700514
Series: Modern Landscape Architecture
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 18+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 306
Published: 5th September 1994
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 27.9 x 21.6
x 1.4
Weight (kg): 0.89
Edition Type: New edition