Between garden and city : Jean Canneel-Claes and landscape modernism / Dorothée Imbert.

Main entry:

Imbert, Dorothée.

Title & Author:

Between garden and city : Jean Canneel-Claes and landscape modernism / Dorothée Imbert.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 277 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, plans (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The landscape of modernity -- An architect's landscape architect -- The functionalist garden -- Organizing landscape architects -- The exposition of waters -- Through urbanism, the country becomes a garden -- Postwar practice.

Summary:

In Between Garden and City, Dorothée Imbert examines the career of Belgian landscape architect Jean Canneel-Claes (1909-1989), firmly establishing his place in the modernist movement. Canneel's theoretical positions and innovative designs sought to align the emergent landscape profession with architecture and urbanism while demonstrating its potential to address the needs of modern society. -- Jacket.

ISBN:

9780822943709 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822943700 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Canneel-Claes, Jean, 1909-1989.
Landscape architects Belgium Biography.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architectes paysagistes Belgique Biographies.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Landscape architects
Belgium

Form/genre:

Biography.
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266512
Call No.: BIB 198429
Status: Available

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