Laurie Olin

Essays on Landscape

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most renowned landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs for the grounds of the Washington Monument, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, and New York's Bryant Park. Olin is also a prolific writer, and his essays wide span a wide array of subjects--from horticulture and education to urban history, the evolving state of the profession of landscape architecture, and many other topics of interest to a range of readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Library of American Landscape History
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781952620300
• ISBN-10: 1952620309
• Artikelnr.: 60981051

Autorenporträt

LAURIE OLIN, FASLA, HON. AIA, is founding partner of OLIN and Practice Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books and essays on a range of topics related to the American landscape and the recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal from the ASLA in honor of his literary achievements.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Robin Karsonv Introduction
3 Form, Meaning, and Expression in Landscape Architecture 000 Regionalism and the Practice of Hanna/Olin, Ltd.
000 William Kent, the Vigna Madama, and Landscape Parks
000 The Museum of Modern Art Garden: The Rise and Fall of a Modernist Landscape
000 What I Do When I Can Do It: Representation in Recent Work
000 More Than Wriggling Your Wrist (or Your Mouse): Thinking, Seeing, and Drawing
000 The Less Said . . .
000 What Did I Mean Then or Now? Reflections on "Form, Meaning and Expression in Landscape Architecture"
000 Civic Realism and Landscape
000 Global, Regional, Local
000 Water, Urban Nature, and the Art of Landscape Design
000 Trees and the Getty
000 The Problem of Nature and Aesthetics in Planting Design
000 Notes
000 Index
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