The Architecture of Landscape 1940-1960

Marc Treib

322 pages, parution le 19/11/2002

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Résumé

Following the end of World War II, the primary tasks for many countries were land clearance, reformation, and reconstruction, as well as the reestablishment of functioning infrastructures. These social and environmental concerns, with parallel developments in the fine arts, fostered many of the twentieth century's most consequential developments in landscape design and architecture, and set the course that we still follow to a large degree today.

The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 provides a groundbreaking collection of worldwide perspectives on this vital and underappreciated era of landscape architecture. It is also the first critical assessment of this period, with information and insight previously unavailable to English-language readers.

With over two hundred illustrations in ten essays by noted historians and theorists from around the world, The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 offers a comprehensive analysis of landscape architecture during an epoch when geographic limits became less important than a sense of world development and an international community of values and design ideas. In this sense, it is a landmark publication.

Contents

To Erase the Garden: Modernity in the Swedish Garden and Landscape
With The Sky as Ceiling: Landscape and Garden Art in Denmark
Landscape in Britain
Counting Trees and Flowers: The reconstructed Landscapes of Belgium and France
Teutonic Myth, Rubble, and Recovery: Landscape Architecture in Germany
After the "Other" War: Landscapes of Home, North and South
Making Your Private World: Modern Landscape Architecture and House Beautiful, 1945-1965
The Inclusion of Modernism: Brasilidade and the Garden
New Land, New Language: Shifting Grounds in Australian Attitudes to Landscape, Architecture, and Modernism
Converging Arcs on a Sphere: Renewing Japanese Landscape Design

L'auteur - Marc Treib

MarcTreib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Space Calculated in Seconds, and the editor of numerous volumes including Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review and An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	University of Pennsylvania
Auteur(s)	Marc Treib
Parution	19/11/2002
Nb. de pages	322
Format	22,2 x 28,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1395g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780812236231
ISBN13	978-0-8122-3623-1