Synopses & Reviews
Profiles of the fifty most exciting contemporary landscape design practices from around the world.For the past decade, garden and landscape design have seen a burgeoning of new ideas on space and the experience of the outdoors. Recent garden plans have embraced the latest thinking in materials, science, and interactive design, and have appropriated ideas from related disciplines such as architecture and product design, redefining and blurring the borders of nature and the man-made.
With distinctive projects by each featured designer, this book gives an encyclopedic look at the most advanced thinking in garden design, offering a rich archive for practitioners and enthusiasts alike. In addition to practice profiles, there are thematic sections that explain the underlying principles of these innovators' highly individual approaches to creating outdoor space. The book's introduction explains how a rising generation has rejected the Romantic, naturalistic tradition of Western garden design, favoring instead the influences of Modernism, Postmodernism, Pop Art, and Land Art. 500+ color illustrations.
Including work by:
Atelier Big City, Montreal
Thomas Balsley, New York
Andy Cao, Los Angeles
Claude Cormier, Montreal
Topher Delaney, San Francisco
Gustafson-Porter, Seattle
Fritz Haeg, Los Angeles
Paula Hayes, New York
Patricia Johanson, New York
Ron Lutsko, San Francisco
MeyerandSilberberg, San Francisco
Nip Paysage, Montreal
Plant, Toronto
Mark Rios, Los Angeles
Janet Rosenberg, Toronto
Martha Schwartz, Boston
Ken Smith, New York
Michael van Valkenburgh, New York
About the Author
Tim Richardson is an internationally respected landscape critic. Former landscape editor at Wallpaper, gardens editor at Country Life, and founding editor of New Eden magazine, he is the author of The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz.