Title & Author:

PWP landscape architecture : building ideas / essays by Peter Walker, Gary Hilderbrand, Gina Crandell, and Jane Gillette.

Publication:

[San Rafael, California] : Oro Editions, [2016]
©2016

Description:

279 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Introduction : Building ideas and our readings of them / John Dixon Hunt -- Before PWP landscape architecture / Peter Walker -- The roots of PWP : Harvard and the design revival / Gary Hilderbrand -- Refining the garden : 1985-2000 / Gina Crandell -- Building ideas / Jane Gillette -- Projects: Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney, Australia ; University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas ; Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia ; "Finite, Infinite", Beijing China ; Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland ; Newport Beach Civic Center and Park, Newport Beach, California ; National September 11 Memorial, New York, New York ; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio ; Samsung Seocho, Seoul, South Korea ; Nasher Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Texas ; Colorado Esplanade, Santa Monica, California ; Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore -- In progress: Transby Transit Center and Mission Square, San Francisco, California ; Khiran Pearl City Marina, Khiran, Kuwait ; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas ; China Resources, Shenzhen Bay, China ; Kuwait International Tennis Complex, Kuwait City, Kuwait ; William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, Dallas, Texas ; Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore ; Expedia Headquarters, Seattle, Washington
Competitions: One for Ike and two for Dan / Peter Walker ; Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Washington, D.C. ; Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri ; Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.

Summary:

"John Dixon Hunt introduces 'PWP Landscape Architecture: Building Ideas' with a discussion of how we read landscapes and, hence, how they are designed with the reader/client in mind and the historical implications of such efforts. Peter Walker, Gary Hilderbrand, and Gina Crandell trace the history of Peter Walker's various firms from the 1950s until 2000, and Jane Gillette discusses some recent projects in terms of using consultants to further design ideas. Twelve finished projects, seven works in progress, and three competitions, from roughly 2000 to 2015, demonstrate the firm's goals and achievements with an emphasis on the expansion of landscape architecture from the surrounds of buildings to self-sufficient entities that express the highest accomplishments of both ecological function and design."--Publisher website.

ISBN:

193593564X (hardcover)
9781935935643 (hardcover)

Subject:

Peter Walker and Partners.
Landscape architectural firms United States.
Landscape architects United States.
Landscape architecture.
Entreprises paysagistes États-Unis.
Architectes paysagistes États-Unis.
Architecture du paysage.
landscape architecture (discipline)
Landscape architects
Landscape architectural firms
United States

Added entries:

Walker, Peter, 1932- author.
Hilderbrand, Gary R., author.
Crandell, Gina, author.
Gillette, Jane Brown, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317275
Call No.: 317275
Status: Available