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Caruncho
Roberto Burle Marx: Landscapes Reflected, Landscape Views 3
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Rossana Vaccarino (Author)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94) was Latin America's most influential and internationally renowned landscape architect. He produced thousands of gardens and public spaces and was among the first advocates for the protections of the Brazilian rain forest. He has been acclaimed by the American Institute of Architects as the "real creator of the modern garden." This title contains essays by Anita de la Rosa de Berrizbeitia, Rossana Vaccarino, Lelia Coelho Frota, and Silvio Soares Macedo on Burle Marx's work and legacy. "Imposing an aesthetic order on the botanically turbulent, spectacular environmental task. The powerful yet fragile garden art of Roberto Burle Marx is an unsurpassed achievement that has done just this...The scholorship collectedc in this volume...offers hope for sustaining the spirit and preserving the essential outlines of the work of Burle Marx."--William Howard Adams, from his preface.
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Delaney
Mirrors of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho
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Guy Cooper (Author)
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Gordon Taylor (Author)
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Dan Kiley (Author)
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Monacelli (Editor)
Now back in stock, this highly sought after monograph represents the gardens and landscapes of the Spanish designer Fernando Caruncho. Renowned internationally for serene compositions based on timeless principles of natural forms and geometry, Caruncho has recently completed two landscapes in the United States, one in the rolling farmland of New Jersey and the other in Florida. Caruncho draws inspiration from a wide spectrum of precedents -- the garden-academies of ancient Greek philosophers as well as important historic gardens in Spain, Italy, France, and Japan; in Mirrors of Paradise, Caruncho discusses his design philosophy and influences in a substantial interview with the authors. Caruncho's gardens range from small urban spaces to grand country estates, and his design trademarks include geometric grids, rolling waves of the shrub escallonia, refined and playful pavilions and gazebos, calm reflecting pools, and vistas that capitalize on the contrasts inherent in his plant palette. In their inventive and evocative fusion of the historic and contemporary, Caruncho's garden designs are masterful compositions that exemplify the formal garden for the new millennium.
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Eckbo
Ten Landscapes: Topher Delaney (Ten Landscapes)
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James Grayson Truelove (Author)
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Rockport Publishers (Editor)
Topher Delaney's twenty-six year career as an environmental artist and builder has encompassed a wide variety of projects including residential gardens ranging from intimate scales up to 400-acre large scale sites, one-acre large corporate rooftop gardens, numerous resorts, award-winning sanctuary gardens for medical facilities, and public art installations. Ms. Delaney's work has been exhibited nationally, most recently at the DeYoung Museum in Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, and at the San Jose Art Museum, 'Room of Fog,' a site installation piece. Her works incorporate many innovative materials including rubber, colored concrete, fiberglass, diachronic glass and recycled plastics.
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Irwin
Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living
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Marc Treib (Author)
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Dorothée Imbert (Author)
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University of California Press (Editor)
One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrated innovative design ideas in a social setting. This engagement with social improvement has stayed with Eckbo throughout his life, distinguishing both his intentions and achievements, from his early work for the Farm Security Administration to his partnerships (including one of the most prominent landscape firms in the world, Eckbo, Dean, Austin, and Williams--EDAW) and his years as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
In an elegant and detailed book that includes more than 100 of Eckbo's designs, Marc Treib examines the aesthetic formation of Eckbo's manner, and by implication the broader field of landscape architecture since the 1930s. Dorothée Imbert writes about Eckbo's social vision, including his belief that ultimately, landscape design is the "arrangement of environments for people." The book also contains a biographical and professional chronology and a complete bibliography of publications by and about Garrett Eckbo.
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Kiley
Robert Irwin Getty Garden
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Lawrence Weschler (Author)
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Becky Cohen (Photographer)
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Getty Publications (Editor)
In the early 1990s the design and creation of the Central Garden at the Getty Center were entrusted to the distinguished contemporary visual artist Robert Irwin. Irwin-a member of California's "light and space" movement-was an unexpected choice for this major commission, and his work has aroused intense interest in the art world and among gardening enthusiasts and visitors to the Getty Center. In Robert Irwin Getty Garden, Lawrence Weschler offers a lively account of the creation of what Irwin has playfully termed "a sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring to be art." Weschler's narrative is followed by a transcript of conversations in which he and Irwin, in a series of walks through the garden, discuss in detail the decisions, both philosophical and practical, that shaped the making of this major art work in Southern California. The book contains more than one hundred color illustrations, many of them specially commissioned from photographer Becky Cohen. The photographs capture the stunning variety of colors and textures of the plant forms selected by Irwin. They also reveal the care and precision that went into the creation of each element of the garden environment, from the handrails and lighting fixtures to the huge azalea rings and waterfall that make a visit to the Getty Central Garden an unusually thought-provoking experience.
Robert Irwin has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in North America and abroad.
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Lin
Dan Kiley: The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect
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Dan Kiley (Author)
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Jane Amidon (Author)
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Bulfinch (Editor)
Dan Kiley has influenced generations of landscape designers, and his work has heightened our awareness of our surroundings through his lifelong tenet that the actions of people are integral to nature and its course. Despite his international renown, no comprehensive monograph has ever been published on Dan Kiley. Produced in close collaboration with the architect, this is the definitive book on the man and his oeuvre, from early projects to his most recent works.
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Lin
Boundaries
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Maya Lin (Author)
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Simon & Schuster (Editor)
Walking through this park-like area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the unashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architechture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book; an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original design are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist." (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
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Masuno
Maya Lin: Architect and Artist (People to Know)
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Mary Malone (Author)
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Enslow Publishers (Editor)
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Schjetnan
Ten Landscapes: Shunmyo Masuno
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Jim Grayson Trulove (Author)
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Rockport Publishers (Editor)
Shunmyo Masuno has two callings: landscape architect and Zen priest. As an eighteenth-generation Zen priest at the temple in the remote suburbs of Yokohama, Japan, Masuno asserts that his two professions are intrinsically linked together and that it would be impossible to separate his landscape designs from his religion. Indeed, anyone experiencing his landscapes is struck by the simple, peaceful, Zen-like quality that they invoke.
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