Main entry:

Weilacher, Udo.

Title & Author:

In gardens : profiles of contemporary European landscape architecture / Udo Weilacher ; photographs by Udo and Rita Weilacher ; [translation, Michael Robinson].

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture, ©2005.

Description:

183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : reading in gardens -- Garden of cosmic speculation near Dumfries : a cosmogenic park landscape -- Little Sparta in Stonypath : a garden as space for political experience -- Garden of the AMU professional training centre in Holstebro : symbolic readings -- Interpolis garden in Tilburg : forest park with computer interface -- District parks in Bijlmermeer near Amsterdam : no flowers on board -- Varus Battle Museum and Park in Bramsche-Kalkriese : traces in steel -- Black garden in Nordhorn : heroic death in the tulip field -- Invalidenpark in Berlin : reading along historic city lines -- Garden of memories in Duisburg : white memory on a green ground -- Landscape park Duisburg Nord : climbers on "Monte Thyssino" -- Museum island Hombroich : art in an artificial Arcadia -- Park of magic waters in Bad Oeynhausen : tales of the water dragon -- District parks in Kronsberg, Hanover : tree island and woodland clearing -- Place du Général Leclerc in Tours : iceberg in a sea of lilac -- Place de la Bourse in Lyon : box-trees parking in stock exchange square -- Les Jardins de l'Imaginaire in Terrasson : fragments of garden history -- Garden of violence in Murten : the peaceful garden Utopia -- Swiss Re Centre for global dialogue in Rüschlikon : empty plinths in the box parterre -- Front garden and courtyard for the Basler + Partner building in Zurich : an urban garden beyond ecological clichés -- Oerliker park in Zurich : a park as a promise -- MFO park in Zurich : green fur on a steel skeleton -- Garden for the Fondation Jeantet de Médicine in Geneva : a sunken hortus conclusus -- Osservatorio geologico on the Cardada : joints in panoramic view -- Mountain garden in Graz : landscape in abstract folds -- Jardí Botànic de Barcelona : nature fragments in a geometrical network -- arc del Clot in Barcelona : a young classic with two faces -- Tarot garden near Garavicchio : in the garden of the fateful cards -- Rock garden in Chandigarh : rebellion against modernism.

Summary:

"In a journey through Europe in 27 chapters, along with an excursion to Chandigarh in India, the author reviews his visits to just as many gardens. The starting-point for the journeys and basis for the descriptions is the "Gardens" column of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung's monthly NZZ Folio magazine, where many of the essays appeared for the first time." "With the eye of the landscape architect, Udo and Rita Weilacher have photographed the parks and gardens designed by their colleagues, but also by architects and artists. An impressive picture of contemporary garden art emerges, in portraits bearing a personal stamp and at the same time informed with considerable professional experience."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Table of contents

ISBN:

9783764370787 (alk. paper)
3764370785 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardens Europe.
Parks Europe.
Landscape architecture Europe.
Jardins Europe.
Architecture du paysage Europe.
Gardens.
Landscape architecture.
Parks.
Landschaftsplanung Europa Geschichte 1965-2005 Beispielsammlung.
Europe.
Europa Landschaftsplanung Geschichte 1965-2005 Beispielsammlung.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238530
Call No.: BIB 168397
Status: Available