- Green vs grey, plants vs concrete: 175 images of Brutalist structures interrogated by nature

Brutalist architecture is commonly associated with a cold, austere aesthetic. But architects have long found ways of incorporating greenery into their more brutal designs, creating a striking contrast between the hard and the soft, the cold and the complex, the sharp edges of concrete and shapes of living plants. And even when not designed to do so, nature often has its own way of reclaiming the built environment. From green roofs to living walls, from the pocket gardens of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation to the lush courtyards and conservatory of London's Barbican Centre, Olivia Broome has curated a visual celebration of brutalist plants.

This post-wild landscape guide is an optimistic call to action to help gardeners create a harmonious environment by incoporating plant communities (Chicago Tribune).

Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious.

Featuring gorgeous photography and advice for landscapers, Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is dedicated to the idea of a new nature--a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated--that can nourish in our cities and suburbs.

Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference Landscape Graphics is the architect's ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations, and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of conversions and equivalents.

While sculpture remained central to his artistic practice, Isamu Noguchi's (1904-1988) interests and production spanned an exceptionally broad terrain that included furniture and lamps, stage sets for dance, plazas, courtyards--and gardens. Noguchi made no distinction between design, craft, and the so-called fine arts: in his view all of these could all be considered art should their aesthetic qualities sufficiently transcend those generated by the simple address of need.

Although his gardens include several of the twentieth century's most iconic landscape designs and have received almost universal praise, Noguchi nonetheless occupies a place removed from the normal practice of landscape architecture. As an artist he relied more on intuition--bolstered by focused study where required--than on objective analysis, and he shaped his landscapes as sculpture, with space as their primary vehicle. To Noguchi landscape design was a spatial and formal art, and from his earliest environmental projects to the works of his later maturity, he succeeded in conceiving and constructing a series of remarkable places.

In this comprehensive and richly illustrated study of Noguchi's gardens, noted landscape historian Marc Treib describes and critiques projects that date from his early unrealized projects for playgrounds and monuments to a large park in Sapporo, Japan, whose construction was completed only posthumously. The story begins with the discussion of Noguchi sculpture that relate in some way to actual landscapes, then moves to the dance set designs for Martha Graham, finally entering the realm of actual landscapes with his gardens for the Reader's Digest offices in Tokyo and UNESCO House in Paris. Many more projects followed in the United States, Japan, and Israel.

Varying in their content and structure, several chapters collectively treat subjects such as landform, water, and the courtyard, while others focus on the major gardens monographically. Accompanied by stunning images from the archives of Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum archives and the author's own photographs, the story of Noguchi's Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture will reward those interested in landscape architecture, art history, garden design, and art more broadly.

'[Walter Hood is] one of the great American landscape artists.' - Former President Joseph R. Biden

The first publication to document the International African American Museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio, illuminating its mission and historic site

The African Ancestors Garden is the first book to be published in conjunction with the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. The museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio, led by award-winning Walter Hood, exemplifies the museum's mission to reflect on its location at Gadsden's Wharf, the point at which nearly half of all enslaved Africans arrived in North America.

With contributions by figures critical to the realization of the International African American Museum, this significant book presents the intensive site research and concepts that went into the distinct spaces at the museum, including an infinity reflecting pool and an ethnobotanical showcase of African plants brought to North America though that landing. Hood's design response to these historic grounds addresses memory, tragedy, and culture, a moving homage to the living Charleston community and the African diaspora at large.

Hood Design Studio, led by MacArthur 'Genius' Grant-winner Walter Hood, is at the forefront of the expanding field of social activism through design, and this book allows us a detailed overview of the conceptualization and creation of a remarkable and deeply meaningful landscape, proposing a way of designing public spaces and cultural institutions that embody the African American experience.

What knowledge is indispensable for
the landscape architect? The answers to this question are as diverse as
landscape architecture itself.
In this book 50 landscape architects
from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia each give five
responses. These include practitioners and teachers, young start-ups as
well as internationally established firms.

The publication
illustrates the complex and dynamic nature of the discipline, and
presents a diverse cross-section of the core expertise of this field. At
the same time, it allows the reader to trace the individual attitudes
into which geographical conditions, social contexts and political
circumstances flow.
Each of the 250 statements is presented on a double page and illustrated by a picture.

• The most important facts in brief: 250 statements from 50 landscape architects
• With contributions by James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, Catherine Mosbach and Peter Walker among others

Now in it's second printing Sand and Golf: How Terrain Shapes the Game explores what makes golf, and golf course architecture, so special on sandy terrain.

Golf was born on sandy ground and the features of the game are a direct product of that terrain. Fairways and greens were derived from the naturally occurring areas of short grass found among the coastal dunes of Scotland. The original sand traps were areas of bare sand that can be found scattered throughout any dune landscape. As the game spread beyond the coastal dunes it took these features with it, and while they have been incorporated into a variety of landscapes they have always fit best on sandy ground. For this reason each major expansion in golf has begun with new courses on sandy ground. Even the best courses of the modern era are products of sandy terrain. The reason golf works so well on sandy ground is that it quite literally belongs there.

This book explores the unique features of sandy ground that make it so suitable for golf, studying the similarities and differences among sandy courses in a wide variety of environments. The courses of Melbourne's Sandbelt may not bear much resemblance to the fantastic sandy courses of America's Great Plains, but they actually have a great deal in common. The firm turf that is a product of free draining soils, rugged bunkers carved directly into the sandy soils, and a style of play suited to firm, often windy sites. Golf on sandy sites is a game played as much along the ground as through the air, and creative shotmaking is required to deal with the challenges of sandy terrain. The creativity required to succeed when golfing on sandy ground is a big part of the enduring popularity of these courses and the reason why people travel around the world to seek them out.

Golf on sandy terrain is something special because golf itself is a product of that terrain. Sand and Golf looks at all aspects of the relationship between sand and golf, from golf's earliest days to the spread of the sport across the globe. Golf and golf course architecture on sandy sites is explored in every detail, using examples and illustrations from the best sandy courses in the world.FEATURED GOLF COURSES: United States of America
1. Bandon Trails Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Bandon, Oregon
2. Chambers Bay University Place, Washington
3. Cypress Point GC Monterey, California
4. Friars Head GC Baiting Hollow, New York
5. Garden City GC Garden City, New York
6. The Maidstone Club East Hampton, New York
7. The National Golf Links of America Southampton, New York
8. Pacific Dunes Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Bandon, Oregon
9. Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Links Pacific Grove, California
10. Pinehurst Number 2 Pinehurst, North Carolina
11. Pine Valley GC Clementon, New Jersey
12. Sand Hills GC Mullen, Nebraska
13. Sebonack GC Southampton, New York
14. Shinnecock Hills GC Southampton, New York
15. Streamsong Golf Resort Streamsong, Florida
16. Wild Horse GC Gothenburg, Nebraska
17. Yeamans Hall Club Hanahan, South Carolina

Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe
18. Ballybunion Golf Club Ballybunion, Ireland
19. Carnoustie Golf Links Carnoustie, Scotland
20. Cruden Bay GC Cruden Bay, Scotland
21. Falsterbo GC Falsterbo, Sweden
22. Ganton GC Scarborough, England
23. Lahinch GC Lahinch, Ireland
24. Machrihanish GC Campbeltown, Scotland
25. Muirfield Gullane, Scotland
26. North Berwick (West Links) North Berwick, Scotland
27. The Old Course at St. Andrews St. Andrews, Scotland
28. Pennard GC Swansea, Wales
29. Prestwick GC Prestwick, Scotland
30. The Renaissance Club at Archerfield Dirleton, Scotland
31. Rosapenna Golf Resort Downings, Ireland
32. Royal Cinque Ports (Deal) Deal, England
33. Royal County Down Newcastle, Northern Ireland
34. Royal Dornoch Dornoch, Scotland
35. Royal North Devon (Westward Ho!) Bideford, England
36. Royal Portrush Portrush, Northern Ireland
37. Royal St. George's Sandwich, England
38. Royal Troon Troon, Scotland
39. Rye GC Rye, England
40. St. George's Hill GC St George's Hill, England
41. Sunningdale GC Sunningdale, England
42. Swinley Forest GC Ascot, England

Australia
43. Barnbougle Dunes Bridport, Tasmania
44. Kingston Heath GC Melbourne, Australia
45. Royal Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

A celebration of parks and public gardens by renowned landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz, whose designs reflect the histories that are held in the land

Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected firms working in landscape architecture today with major commissions across the United States. This collection of twelve projects illustrates the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. Through the celebrated firm's process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed and integrated into meaningful public experiences.

The firm has worked with exceptionally sensitive sites across the United States, including those that hold the vital histories of enslaved peoples, the rich cultures of indigenous peoples, and the natural habitats that have been threatened by infrastructure and construction.

These projects are found across the firm's geographic reach. One, in southern Texas, is the revitalization of Memorial Park in Houston, a 1500-acre landscape that interweaves city infrastructure with a vibrant ecology. In the northeast, a burial ground adjacent to the Brooklyn Naval Yard has been reclaimed as a contemplative meadow filled with native plants, pollinators, and birds. And thousands of miles to the northwest, the Aga Khan Garden in Alberta, Canada, stands as a regenerative sanctuary in opposition to the surrounding landscape often battered by the pollutants, mining, and fire.

The work of NBW is set in a broad context through the book's inclusion of authoritative essays by noted scholars, ecologists, and cultural historians. It articulates the central role of landscape architecture in reshaping public space to meet challenges of ecological and social resilience.

A striking and elegant coffee-table book highlighting heritage landscape design in California.

California's diverse vernacular and designed landscapes have roots in the late 1700s Spanish colonization of what was then called Alta California. The state also has a unique endemic flora and rich botanical history from both the Indigenous people's protoagriculture and plant introductions that continue to this day. For many people, however, the concept of landscape is associated with gardens, especially estate gardens. Yet landscape design reaches far beyond the elite circles of private estates; California Eden: Heritage Landscapes of the Golden State showcases a wide range of landscapes from the professional to the vernacular through exceptional essays by distinguished landscape historians. Entries highlight famous and beloved estate gardens but also more frequently overlooked landscapes such as shopping malls, streetscapes, sports venues, and vernacular sites. From a military installation on the California-Mexico border to the campus of Stanford University and the Japanese American gardens of San Diego, the essays speak to design as well as the challenges of historic preservation of these-often ephemeral places. As elegant as it is informative, California Eden is an essential book for anyone who is passionate about plants.

Ever since Herodotus stood in awe before the Great Labyrinth of Egypt and its 3,000 rooms, men have been fascinated by labyrinthine puzzles, constructions, and mazes. This book explores the subject in full, with a complete illustrated account of labyrinths and mazes of all kinds, from earliest times to the present.
There are labyrinths that consist entirely of rooms and columns, like the Egyptian Labyrinth itself. There are the labyrinths of ancient history and of myth, such as the celebrated Cretan maze in which Theseus slew the Minotaur. There are labyrinths constructed of caverns, those built to protect tombs, and those designed to guard treasures. Labyrinthine patterns have been used in gardens (such as the famous Hampton Court maze), embossed on coins, employed as emblems of royalty, made to represent allegories, built of stones, embedded into the pavements of early churches, and made into toys. We learn about all of them -- all that is known, for mystery seems an inescapable part of the story of the labyrinth.
With devoted scholarship and a nice appreciation for what he terms the lure of the labyrinth, the author takes us through accounts of the ancient mazes, the meanders of Greek and Roman times, theories on the meaning of church labyrinths, the mizmaze, turf mazes and their origins, the floral labyrinth, the hedge maze, examples in stones and carved on rocks, links between labyrinths and magic, maze etymology, hints on maze design and principles of solution, the labyrinth in literature, the labyrinth in strange places, mirror mazes, and even a verbal labyrinth. All important or exceptional examples are illustrated.
This is a book for anyone who is intrigued by puzzles or beguiled by mysteries, a book for the historian, the mathematician, the student, the lover of the classic, and all those who enjoy reading the product of a cultivated mind dwelling on a subject that touches much of our cultural and artistic heritage.

- Tips, tricks, and inspiration for creating wonderful spaces in your garden where you can work, play, entertain, and dine

- Includes over 200 prestigious projects worldwide

Outdoor Interiors showcases the most beautiful garden designs in the world. Author Juliet Roberts highlights five styles - 'traditional', 'contemporary', 'playful', 'everyday' and 'minimal' - and gives plenty of tips for achieving the same style in your garden across different categories (dining, sitting, lounge, cooking and swimming). The result is a stylish coffee table book full of inspiration.

This compendium presents an international showcase of contemporary
landscape design between global trends, local traditions, climatic
conditions, functional demands, new technologies, economic
circumstances, and individual styles: landscape architecture of today
heading for tomorrow.

A reference work and source of inspiration, this compendium provides an overview of the entire spectrum of this discipline based on projects around the world. Their common denominator is the design of ecologically and socially intact living space. Almost exactly ten years after the publishing of the Atlas of World Landscape Architecture, this new publication takes stock of the developments of the last decade.

Whether around, besides, on top of, or even in buildings, in populated
areas or in the countryside, landscape architecture develops and designs
outdoor spaces for humans as independent creations. It mediates between
nature and architecture and connects the grown and the planned habitat,
balancing function and aesthetics. Against the backdrop of climate
change, the central task today is the conservation of natural resources
and the creation of sustainable, high-quality green spaces.

The challenge to preserve Chicagoland's unique haven

Just outside the bustling metropolis of Chicago lies the unlikely green oasis of Riverside, Illinois, a small village that has continued to directly influence American landscapes and suburbs since the 1870s. Once farmland, the location provided a blank canvas for preeminent designers Fredrick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's manifestation of a truly democratic society. Olmsted's Riverside details the village's historical significance, harmony with nature, and its nearly 150-year impact on American suburbs today.

Cathy Jean Maloney explores how Riverside's layout and design presaged today's urban planning goals of walkability, green space, public transportation access, sustainability, and resiliency. Houses in Riverside are set back from the road, sidewalks meander along gently curving roads, and public green spaces abound. Maloney shows how Riverside's leaders and residents struggled with stewardship of Olmsted's ideals by balancing competing interests in suburban development and Chicago sprawl from the 1870s to the 2020s. She details in chronological chapters how the village adapted to tragedies such as the Great Fire of 1871 and the Panic of 1873, as well as advancements in transportation, local civic life, urban policy, and environmental thought, all while staying true to the framework inherited from Olmsted and Vaux.

Olmsted's Riverside provides engaging examples of how citizen involvement can protect a community's ideals. This richly illustrated volume combines landscape architecture, regional history, and urban design to show how audacious civic planning and thoughtful conservation can provide a model for future American suburbs.

Relax and delve into a world of dot-to-dots made just for you! This adult dot-to-dot book of challenging, relaxing city and skyline images will put your mind at ease as you let your cares slip away and enjoy connecting extreme numbers of dots!

The puzzles in this book include a wide variety of beautiful landscape, city, and skyline images. Our professional artists will leave you with breathtaking finished images that you can color, tear out and hang up if you like. You'll be blown away by the drawings and can try to figure each one out as they gradually appear in front of your eyes. There is an answer key at the end in case you get stuck!

Each image is printed on high-quality paper and every drawing is followed by a blank sheet of paper so you never have to worry about tearing individual images out of the book.

You will get:

• Puzzles ranging up to 433 dots
• A wide variety of challenging, extreme dot beautiful city and skyline images
• Skip around and start with easier images to ease into the challenge
• Relaxation and stress relief
• Professionally created images that will amaze you when completed!
• Bonus images from other dot-to-dot books in our series!
• Answer key at the end

Enjoy the puzzles and let your stress melt away!

Ready to cook amazing keto recipes for your crockpot? This book has actionable information about the keto diet, including 60 delicious, easy to make recipes that you can prepare to get started.Nowadays, most of the foods we eat are rather processed, genetically modified or junk foods. These are foods high in calories, saturated sugars and fats and are low in fiber, which is essential for proper digestion. What many of us don't want to accept is that these foods are to blame for many of the world's health problems such as obesity, diabetes, the heart disease and other lifestyle problems. Unhealthy diet is linked to cardiovascular diseases, obesity and cancer especially when coupled with sedentary lifestyle. So what's the secret to good health? Well, as you perhaps are aware, the secret to healthy and happy life is exercising, weight control and eating right. Of these methods of solving our health problems, diet seems to be the most challenging to understand for many people. What constitutes a healthy diet that can bring about weight loss and good health? Well, while many diets exist out there, the one diet that has been scientifically proven time and again is the ketogenic diet. Originally designed as a cure for drug resistant epileptic seizures in 1930s, the ketogenic diet has proven that it does more than help in curing epileptic seizures; it also helps in combating weight loss, fighting diabetes, heart disease, and much, much more. All you need to do is to eat keto friendly foods, avoid those that are not allowed in the diet, track your intake of carbohydrates and you are all set for success. And this book will show you exactly what you need to do to move from where you are i.e. unhealthy, overweight/obese, to where you want to be i.e. of healthy weight and with good overall health. In this book, you will learn what the ketogenic diet is all about including what it is you should eat, what you should not eat, how it works, why it works, the benefits that come with following a ketogenic diet, 60 delicious recipes that you can prepare fast and much, much more. Let's begin here what you'll learn from this book: Chapter 1: Ketogenic Diet For BeginnersChapter 2: What Is It?Chapter 3: Food Guide: What To EatChapter 4: Food Guide: What To AvoidChapter 5: Easy Low Carb SubstitutesChapter 7: BreakfastChapter 8: LunchChapter 9: DinnerChapter 10: Appetizers & Side DishesChapter 11: DessertChapter 12: Besides Weight Loss, What Else Can A Keto Diet Do For You?Chapter 13: Watch Out For Some Draw Backs get your free copy now

We build fountains--those vibrant symbols of life and physical embodiments of beauty--to mark and celebrate our favored places.

This act is an honor to all, and like listening to music, it is understood on an intuitive level. We also build fountains to commemorate life. Water is the basis for, and the symbol of, life. Many fountains are articulated to recognize some person, institution, or idea. Those particular recognitions are fused with water's deeper symbolism to convey everlastingness to the identities being celebrated.

Fountain Safari places on the shelf a sharply focused, comprehensive, useful, entertaining, and hopefully lasting survey aimed to provide a panoramic portrait of the fountain class of artistic endeavor. The material attends especially to the aesthetics of water expression by examining numerous esteemed examples. In the process, a sketch is roughed out of the evolution of fountains over some two millennia and across several cultures. Ultimately, the work attempts to deepen the understanding and appreciation of water features by identifying and clarifying their most essential aesthetic qualities.

Fountain Safari is written for design professionals, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, students of the arts or the built environment--and everyone else interested in the engaging, one-of-a-kind subject of fountains.

How are landscapes created? Landscapes in the Making goes beyond professional design and planning to examine the social range of knowledge, technique, and imagination in the making and meaning of landscapes--from the work of quarrying and construction to that of cultivation, maintenance, stewardship, salvage, reclamation, ritual, and remembrance. Deploying an array of documentary, visual, and field sources, this volume brings to life the agency and skill of diverse and often disregarded peoples, in a range of periods and places, working in often demanding, precarious, and coercive conditions. Chapters focus on the physical and social worlds of trash dumps, gravel pits, and abandoned canneries as well as on construction sites for churches, palaces, parks, gardens, and government buildings. In addition to addressing local place-making, the volume surveys wider regional and international geographies of movement, both of people and materials. The landscapes described are far from finished--they are provisional, and always in the making.

Understanding landscape design as a dynamic, not static, art form

Landscape architects do not situate their work in a vacuum. It exists in a state of constant change and is better understood as a product of continual evolution than as a work of pure design. In Design through Time, Mark Hough offers case studies of parks, gardens, campuses, communities, and cultural sites--from the Missouri Botanical Garden and Mount Auburn Cemetery to Tuskegee University and Dumbarton Oaks Park--to answer several crucial questions: Who is the proposed landscape conceived to please? How will it change, affected by both natural and societal events? How will stewards address the need for landscapes to remain relevant, attractive, and accessible?

To address these concerns, Hough analyzes the influence and impact of generations of administrators, advocates, horticulturalists, institutional leaders, elected officials, and others whose collective decisions compel landscapes to grow and change in ways that strive to respect their established legacies while adjusting to shifting cultural, ecological, and economic realities. The resulting work is a dynamic look at landscape design that reflects its status as an art form that is ever changing, never static.

Das Buch nimmt den Leser als intellektuelles Abenteuer auf eine Reise durch eine sorgfältig zusammengestellte Auswahl von 120 Orten, die als Metaphern der zeitgenössischen Kultur verstanden werden können und somit den Zustand unserer heutigen Welt wiederspiegeln. Diese Orte, die über alle sieben Kontinente verteilt sind, von den Tiefen des Ozeans bis zum Weltraum, gliedern sich in sechs Kapitel: Paradiese, Utopien, Maschinen, Ungeheuer, Ruinen und Instrumente.

Das Spektrum reicht vom Apple Park von Steve Jobs in Kalifornien über einen Nationalpark in Costa Rica, eine kleine Feldstation für den Schutz der Orang Utans auf Borneo, Afrikas Grüne Mauer, das Trump-Resort Mar-a-Lago bis hin zum Grenzzaun zwischen den USA und Mexiko. Die Publikation offeriert eine Grand Tour zu den wichtigsten Orten unserer Zeit.

Eine Reise um die Erde von heute der ganz besonderen Art

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Named a Best Book of 2022 by the American Society of Landscape Architects

Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants.

Many of her clients were members of the highest echelon of society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden.

Perhaps her best-known work is the extensive garden at Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Deeply influenced by the English landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers.

Her gardens have been photographed at their peak especially for this book, and these lush illustrations are complemented by beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at the library of the University of California at Berkeley.