In Gardens. Profiles of Contemporary European Landscape Architecture

In Gardens. Profiles of Contemporary European Landscape Architecture by Udo Weilacher
Publ: Birkhauser | 2005 | PDF |182 Pages | English | ISBN-10: 3764370785 | 28.5 MB
The past decade has witnessed a profound transformation in European landscape architecture, away from the formal, centrally-planned garden art that hallmarks traditional European parks, toward projects, often the result of interdisciplinary cooperation between architects, artists, and landscape architects, of a more informal, almost exploratory, nature.
In Gardens examines more than thirty of the most influential recent landscape projects in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland, and from designers like Kathryn Gustafson, Dani Karavan, and Charles Jencks. In the process, this panoramic book illuminates a new paradigm of garden design in Europe and provides a fount of inspiration for landscape designers everywhere.
Contents:
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 General 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 Ruschlikon
Empty plinths in the box parterre
Front Garden and Courtyard for the Basler + Partner Building in Zurich
An urban garden beyond ecological cliches
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 Medicine in Geneva
A sunken hortus conclusus
Osservatorio geologico on the Cardada
Joints in panoramic view
Mountain Garden in Graz
Landscape in abstract folds
Jardi Botanic de Barcelona
Nature fragments in a geometrical network
Parc 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


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