Sweet & salt : water and the Dutch / Tracy Metz and Maartje van den Heuvel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metz, Tracy.

Contributor:

Heuvel, Maartje van den.

Kunsthal Rotterdam.

Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--Netherlands--Management.

Water-supply.

Water use--Netherlands--Planning.

Water use.

Land use--Netherlands--Planning.

Land use.

Landscape architecture--Netherlands.

Landscape architecture.

Architecture--Netherlands--20th century.

Architecture.

Water in art.

Planning.

Management.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Sweet and salt

Water and the Dutch

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : NAi, 2012.

Summary:

Water management runs in the blood of the Dutch. Draining the Netherlands and keeping it dry is a process they started centuries ago and continue to this day. But will this still suffice? In the project Sweet & Salt (book and exhibition) author and journalist Tracy Metz and curator Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands shapes its evolving relationship with water. The sea level is rising, rivers are swelling, there is more rain, there are more storms and sometimes there's a drought. There is a growing awareness that not just dikes and dams but natural processes too play a significant role in our security. This is the greatest challenge currently facing Dutch designers. There is also increasing attention given to the aesthetics of the water landscape being designed.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Kunsthal Rotterdam Feb. 14-June 10, 2012.

"The exhibition was produced in collaboration with Leiden University."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291).

ISBN:

9789056628482

9056628488

OCLC:

768569718