Synopses & Reviews
Featuring the work of 21 landscape architects from around the world,
The Inspired Landscape by Susan Cohen highlights each initial spark of creativity and traces it through the stunningly innovative landscape designs that resulted. Lushly illustrated with original sketches, plans, and photographs, this invaluable resource will embolden designers to summon the unique sources that can fuel their own creative process.
Includes work by:
- Shlomo Aronson, Sheila Brady, and James Burnett
- Gilles Clément, Gary Hilderbrand, and Charles Jencks
- Mary Margaret Jones, Mikyoung Kim, and Peter Latz
- Shunmyo Masuno, Signe Nielsen, and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
- Laurie Olin, Ken Smith, and Stephen Stimson
- Tom Stuart-Smith, Christine Ten Eyck, and Ryoko Ueyama
- Kim Wilkie, Thomas Woltz, and Kongjian Yu
Review
Riverside, Connecticut"The Inspired Landscape reveals the sources of design inspiration for landscape architects and provides an essential foundation for understanding and appreciating the dynamic artistry of global practice today."
Charles A Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, Founder and President, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Review
“Susan Cohen probes diverse kinds of inspiration that inform the designs of talented landscape architects. In this exceptional book she cogently captures how they forge idioms that portray the elusive quality that defines place.”
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Synopsis
The Inspired Landscapeexplores the creative process of outstanding landscape architects through their most celebrated projects. Susan Cohen, the founder and director of the acclaimed Landscape Design Portfolio Series at New York Botanical Garden, illustrates the creative path taken by landscape architects like Mikyoung Kim, whose design for the Crown Sky Garden in Chicago was inspired by the interplay of music and nature. And Cornelia Oberlander, whose vision for the form of a Vancouver green roof was drawn from a Karl Blossfeld photograph of a gently undulating orchid leaf. With original sketches, plans, and photographs, this book is an extraordinary journey through the creative process."
About the Author
Susan Cohen is a licensed landscape architect and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects with an award-winning private practice in Greenwich, Connecticut. She also teaches and lectures on landscape design and history and is coordinator of the Landscape Design Program at The New York Botanical Garden where she founded the celebrated Landscape Design Portfolio Series.