Main entry:

Richardson, Tim, 1968-

Title & Author:

Avant gardeners : 50 visionaries of the contemporary landscape / Tim Richardson ; with a foreword by Martha Schwartz.

Publication:

New York : Thames & Hudson, 2008.

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 351).
Concept: The theoretical basis for -- and a definition of -- landscape conceptualism -- History: The ways in which conceptualist designers both deny and embrace ideas of history -- Nature: Conceptualists lead the charge against lazy, politically expedient 'eco' solutions -- Plants and Other Materials: Colour, artificiality, surrealism and green growing things -- Maxims Towards a Conceptualist Attitude to Landscape Design: More mini-festo than manifesto: notes on conceptualist reality -- Conceptualist Garden Show: The best international showcase for conceptual work? -- Psychotopia: An anatomy of landscape atmosphere: The importance of invisibles.
Designers. Atelier Big City, Montreal -- Lodewijk Baljon, Amsterdam -- Thomas Balsley, New York -- Julia Barton, Northumberland (UK) -- BCA Landscape, Liverpool (UK) -- Petra Blaisse, Amsterdam -- Jean-Pierre Brazs, Paris -- Susanne Burger, Munich -- Cao Perrot Studio, Los Angeles, New York and Paris -- Paul Cooper, Powys (UK) -- Claude Cormier, Montreal -- Topher Delaney, San Francisco -- Herbert Dreiseitl, Überlingen (Germany) -- DS Landschapsarchitecten, Amsterdam -- Monika Gora, Malmö, Sweden -- Gross.Max, Edinburgh -- Gustafson Porter, London and Seattle -- Fritz Haeg, Los Angeles -- Paula Hayes, New York -- Tony Heywood, London -- Patricia Johanson, Buskirk (USA) -- Karres en Brands, Hilversum (The Netherlands) -- Klahn + Singer, Karlsruhe (Germany) -- Land-I, Rome -- Die LandschaftsArchitekten, Wiesbaden (Germany) -- Ron Lutsko, San Francisco -- Lützow 7, Berlin -- William Martin, Noorat (Australia) -- Shunmyo Masuno, Yokohama (Japan) -- Metagardens, London -- Meyer + Silberberg, Berkeley (USA) -- Helle Nebelong, Gentofte (Denmark) -- Nip Paysage, Montreal -- Antonio Perazzi, Milan -- Plant, Toronto -- Philippe Rahm, Paris and Lausanne (Switzerland) -- RCH Studios, Los Angeles -- Janet Rosenberg, Toronto -- Mario Schjetnan, Mexico City -- Martha Schwartz (Cambridge (USA) and London -- Vladimir Sitta, Surry Hills (Australia) -- SLA, Copenhagen -- Ken Smith, New York -- Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Princes Hill and Adelaide (Australia) -- Topotek 1, Berlin -- Trinidad, Vienna -- Michael Van Valkenburgh, New York and Cambridge (USA) -- Brita von Schoenaich, Petersham (UK) -- WES & Partner, Hamburg -- West 8, Rotterdam.

Summary:

"In the past decade, garden and landscape design has witnessed a burgeoning of new ideas. The leading edge of recent garden design has not only embraced the latest thinking in science and materials, but has also appropriated ideas from related disciplines, such as architecture and product design, redefining and blurring the borders of nature and the man-made in the process. Plants, too, have been the source of surprising new expressions in avant-gardens, even if many practitioners are suspicious of horticulture's importance. One indication of the rise in popularity - and controversy - of these gardens has been the growing number of conceptual garden festivals, which have become the premier international showcases for new ideas." "Avant Gardeners presents the fifty most exciting and innovative contemporary garden - and landscape - design practices from around the world, profiling the work of each designer through informative texts, photographs and plans. Topical essays explore the underlying principles of these highly individual approaches, and show how a rising generation has rejected the naturalistic tradition of Western garden design, favouring instead the influences of Modernism, Postmodernism, Pop Art and Land Art." "Tim Richardson, one of the world's leading garden and landscape critics, brings a broad base of knowledge and an engaging style to the subject. With over 100 projects, the book is an encyclopaedic look at the most advanced contemporary thinking in garden design and offers an inspirational archive for practitioners and enthusiasts - indeed for anyone who delights in the great outdoors."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780500513934 (hbk.)
0500513937 (hbk.)
9780500288269 (pbk.)
0500288267 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Landscape architecture Designs and plans.
Landscape architecture Case studies.
Landscape architecture Pictorial works.
Landscape architects.
Architecture du paysage.
Architecture du paysage Dessins et plans.
Architecture du paysage Études de cas.
Architecture du paysage Ouvrages illustrés.
Architectes paysagistes.
landscape architects.
landscape architecture (discipline)
Landscape art & architecture.
Gartengestaltung
Landschaftsarchitekt
Landschaftsplanung

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Case studies
Architectural drawings
Pictorial works
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Schwartz, Martha.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257883
Call No.: BIB 188434
Status: Available