Modern Landscape Architecture A Critical Review

Name: Modern Landscape Architecture A Critical Review
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ISBN: 9780262200929

ISBN-10: 0262200929

ISBN-13: 9780262200929

Edition: 1993

Authors: Marc Treib

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These twenty-two essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline. During the 1930s Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, and JamesRose began to integrate modernist architectural ideas into their work and to design a landscape more in accord with the life and sensibilities of their time. Together with Thomas Church, whose gardens provided the setting for California living, they laid the foundations for a modern American landscape design. This first critical assessment of modem landscape architecture brings together seminal articles from the 1930s…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/13/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 306
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English



Introduction



American Landscape Tastes




Modernism and American Landscape Architecture




Axioms for a Modern Landscape Architecture




Freedom in the Garden [1938]




Plants Dictate Garden Forms [1938]




Articulate Form in Landscape Design [1939]




Why Not Try Science? [1939]




Landscape Design in the Urban Environment [1939]




Landscape Design in the Rural Environment [1939]




Landscape Design in the Primeval Environment [1940]




A Model for Modernism: The Work and Influence of Pierre-Emile Legrain




New Pioneering in Garden Design [1930]




Erik Glemme and the Stockholm Park System




The Dialogue of Modern Landscape Architectuire With Its Past




Christopher Tunnard: The Garden in the Modern Landscape




Modern Gardens for Modern Houses: Reflections on Current Trends in Landscape Design [1942]




Thomas Church, California Gardens, and Public Landscapes




"Organic Form in the Humanized Landscape": Garrett Eckbo's Landscape for Living




Pilgrim's




Modern and Classical Themes in the Work of Dan Kiley



Selected Works and Comments by Dan Kiley



The Practice of Landscape Architecture in the Postwar United States




Landscape and Common Culture Since Modernism




Pointing a Finger at the Moon: The Work of Robert Irwin



Epilogue


Index