Title & Author:

Preserving modern landscape architecture : papers from the Wave Hill-National Park Service Conference / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Spacemaker Press, [1999]

Description:

82 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Series:

Land marks ; 10

Notes:
"Partial support for this publication was provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-77).
Preface: sharp angles or curves? you decide / Charles A. Birnbaum -- Preserving contemporary landscape architecture: is nothing permanent but change itself? / Charles A. Birnbaum -- Preserving the recent design past / Peter E. Walker -- Post-World War II landscape architecture in the United States: a timeline / Elizabeth K. Meyer -- Preservation in the age of ecology: Post-World War II built landscapes / Elizabeth K. Meyer -- Preservation and the public / Robert Bruegmann -- Preserving space, time and the landscape architecture of James Rose / Dean Cardasis -- Dan Kiley's site design for the gateway arch / Mary V. Hughes -- The landscape of the United States Air Force Academy / Duane Boyle
Portfolio -- The challenge of preserving Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts / Ken Smith -- Playing for time: preservation issues in contemporary playground design / Lisa E. Crowder -- M. Paul Friedberg's early playground designs in New York City / Alison Dalton -- The politics of play: the adventure playground in Central Park / Michael Gotkin -- The garden conservancy: lessons from the first decade / John Fitzpatrick -- Epilogue: nourishing the human gene pool: let us make and preserve a legacy of landscape architecture / Richard Hagg
Also issued online.

ISBN:

1888931213 (pbk.)
9781888931211 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape architecture United States.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis.
Landscape architecture.
United States

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Birnbaum, Charles A.
United States. National Park Service.
National Park Conference (U.S.)
Landmarks (Washington, D.C.) ; 10.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218842
Call No.: SB472.8 .P7 1999
Status: Available