Title & Author:

The architecture of landscape, 1940-1960 / edited by Marc Treib.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002.

Description:

x, 311 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Marc Treib -- To erase the garden: modernity in the Swedish garden and landscape / Thorbjörn Andersson -- With the sky as ceiling: landscape and garden art in Denmark / Malene Hauxner -- Landscape in Britain / Alan Powers -- Counting trees and flowers: the reconstructed landscapes of Belgium and France / Dorothée Imbert -- Teutonic myth, rubble, and recovery: landscape architecture in Germany / Gert Gröning -- After the "other" war: landscapes of home, north and south / Catherine Howett -- Making your private world: modern landscape architecture and House Beautiful, 1945-1965 / Dianne Harris -- Inclusion of modernism: Brasilidade and the garden / Rossana Vaccarino -- New land, new language: shifting grounds in Australian attitudes to landscape, architecture, and modernism / Philip Goad -- Converging arcs on a sphere: renewing Japanese landscape design / Marc Treib.

Summary:

"Following the end of World War II, the primary tasks for many countries were land clearance, reformation, and reconstruction, as well as the reestablishment of functioning infrastructures. These social and environmental concerns, with parallel developments in the fine arts, fostered many of the twentieth century's most consequential developments in landscape design and architecture, and set the course that we still follow to a large degree today." "The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 provides a groundbreaking collection of worldwide perspectives on this vital and underappreciated era of landscape architecture. It is also the first critical assessment of this period, with information and insight previously unavailable to English-language readers."
"With over two hundred illustrations in ten essays by noted historians and theorists from around the world, The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 offers a comprehensive analysis of landscape architecture during an epoch when geographic limits became less important than a sense of world development and an international community of values and design ideas. In this sense, it is a landmark publication."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0812236238 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780812236231 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape architecture History.
Landscape design History.
Architecture du paysage Histoire.
Aménagement paysager Histoire.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape design.
Architektur
Landschaftsgarten
Aufsatzsammlung
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Landscape architecture History 20th century.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Treib, Marc.
Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226527
Call No.: SB470.5 .A7 2002
Status: Available