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In gardens : profiles of contemporary European landscape architecture / Udo Weilacher and Photograph by Rita Weilacher.

DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Weilacher, Udo, author.
Contributor:
Weilacher, Rita, photographer.
Standardized Title:
In Gärten. English
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gardens--Europe.
Gardens.
Landscape architecture--Europe.
Landscape architecture.
Parks--Europe.
Parks.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (182 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser - Publishers for Architecture, [2005]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Eine souveräne Darstellung der einflussreichsten und innovativsten Gärten und Parks durch einen der besten Kenner der europäischen Landschaftsarchitektur. In den letzten zehn Jahren hat die Landschaftsarchitektur eine Fülle neuer Interpretationenüber die großen Themen der europäischen Gartenkunst hervorgebracht. Aus der intensiven Beschäftigung mit mehr als 25 einflussreichen Projekten entwirft Udo Weilacher ein Panorama der wichtigsten Tendenzen. Einer der Schwerpunkte, die anhand von Gärten und Parks aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, Frankreich, Spanien, Dänemark, Großbritannien und den Niederlanden behandelt werden, liegt auf der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Landschaftsarchitekten und Architekten. Auch Künstler wie Dani Karavan, der Architekturtheoretiker Charles Jencks und die Amerikanerin Kathryn Gustafson sind mit eigenen europäischen Arbeiten vertreten.
The past decade has witnessed new interpretations of the great themes of traditional European garden art in profusion. Drawing on his intensive studies of some 30 influential European projects, Udo Weilacher presents a panorama of the most significant developments since the publication of his groundbreaking work Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art in 1996. Examples of the cooperation between landscape designers and architects are given special attention in case studies taken from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In addition, US landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson, artists such as Dani Karavan, and the architectural theorist Charles Jencks are featured, along with their European works.
Contents:
Frontmatter
Reading in gardens
A cosmogenic park landscape
A garden as space for political experience
Symbolic readings
Forest park with computer interface
No flowers on board
Traces in steel
Heroic death in the tulip field
Reading along historic city lines
White memory on a green ground
Climbers on "Monte Thyssino"
Art in an artificial Arcadia
Tales of the water dragon
Tree island and woodland clearing
Iceberg in a sea of lilac
Box-trees parking in Stock Exchange Square
Fragments of garden history
The peaceful garden Utopia
Empty plinths in the box parterre
An urban garden beyond ecological clichés
A park as a promise
Green fur on a steel skeleton
A sunken hortus conclusus
Joints in panoramic view
Landscape in abstract folds
Nature fragments in a geometrical network
A young classic with two faces
In the garden of the fateful cards
Rebellion against Modernism
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ISBN:
9786611904005
9781281904003
1281904007
9783764376628
3764376627
OCLC:
756437034

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