Title & Author:

Relating architecture to landscape / edited by Jan Birksted.

Publication:

New York : E & FN Spon, 1998.

Description:

viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section one The modernist context ; Introduction to modern gardens (1953) / Sir Peter Shepheard.
Section two Relating architecture to landscape through elements and materials ; Time and temporality in Japanese gardens / Mara Miller -- Detailing and materials of outdoor space: the Scandinavian example / Jan Woudstra -- Playing with artifice: Robeto Burle Marx's gardens / Jacques Leenhardt.
Section three Relating architecture to landscape through geometry, form and scale ; External/internal exterior spaces at the Maeght Foundation / Jan Birksted -- A landscape 'fit for a democracy': Joze Plecnik at Prague Castle (1920-1935) / Caroline Constant -- Tokyo as emblem of a postmodern paradigm / Augustin Berque -- The re-invention of the site / Thomas Deckker.
Section four Relating architecture to landscape through collaborations ; Architect and landscape architect working together: Scharoun and Mattern / Peter Blundell Jones -- Dimitri Pikionis in situ / Dimitri Philippides and Agni Pikionis -- Landscape architecture: ecology, community, art / John Hopkins.
Section five Contemporary case studies ; The necessity of invention: Bernard Lassus's garden landscapes / Stephen Bann -- The prospect5 at Dungeness: Derek Jarman's garden / Jan Birksted -- Building in nature / Peter Salter -- Parc St Pierre, Amiens / Sandra Morris.

ISBN:

0419231501 (pbk.)
9780419231509 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Gardens Design.
Architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
Jardins Architecture.
landscape gardening.
architecture (discipline)

Added entries:

Birksted, Jan, 1946-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204088
Call No.: SB472 . R46 1998
Status: Available