Bruce Ferguson

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction (eBook, PDF)

The Vision of Built Landscapes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction outlines a philosophy of values in landscape construction, demonstrating how integral structures, such as pavements and walls, constitute a key element to how people interact with and inhabit the final design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000336177
• Artikelnr.: 60704494

Autorenporträt

Bruce K. Ferguson is a landscape architect whose research, teaching, and practice have focused on the environmental and technical dimensions of urban design for four decades. He was formerly Franklin Professor and Director of the School of Environmental Design at the University of Georgia. He earned the AB degree at Dartmouth College and the MLA degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a Past President of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, and a recipient of the Council's Outstanding Educator Award, North America's highest award for career contributions to landscape architectural education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Why Now
What this Book Is Based On
How to Use this Book in Learning Landscape Construction
What this Book Is
Notes
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Call of Values
Built Landscapes and Landscape Construction
Values Waiting Within
The Yearning for Values in Construction Design
Your Aspiration and Your Development
Notes
Chapter 2. Between Structure and Vision
Pavement
Wall
Span
Structures in Interaction with Values
Notes
Chapter 3. Building toward People
Floors for Moving
Seats for Staying
Social orientation
Bodily comfort
Covers for Sheltering
The Importance of Durability
People in Built Landscapes
Notes
Chapter 4. Building toward Living Things
Living Soil
Spanning Structures
Inert Subgrade Soil
Permeable Structures
Rootable Structures
What is at stake
Structural soil
Return to spanning structures
Living Things around Structures
Living Things in Built Landscapes
Notes
Chapter 5. Building toward Meaning
Compositional Articulation
Functional Articulation
Cultural Articulation
Ecological Articulation
Meaning in Built Landscapes
Notes
Chapter 6. Building toward Thrift
Material Resources
Newly made materials
Previously made structures and materials
Financial Resources
Investment with exclusively financial values
Investment with multiple values
The Importance of Complete Investigation
Thrift in Built Landscapes
Notes
Chapter 7. The Open Way
A Drainage Outlet
Native in Material and Ecology
Evolution of Structures with Realization of Uses and Values
Pursuit of Values in the Act of Design
Notes
Chapter 8. Between Stone and Sky
Core Values
Specific Types of Values
Value Interactions and Priorities
Why Pause Now
Ideals: The Sky in the Stone
Notes