In Gardens: Profiles of Contemporary European Landscape Architecture

Udo Weilacher

Published by Birkhäuser 2005

In Gardens

Profiles of Contemporary European Landscape Architecture

Udo Weilacher
Photographs by: Udo Weilacher and Rita Weilacher

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7662-8

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A masterly presentation of gardens

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.

Profoundly informative first-hand account by a leading international authority
A selection of projects by top international landscape designers
Presents examples of interdisciplinary cooperation between architects, artists and landscape architects

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Reading in gardens Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
A cosmogenic park landscape Garden of Cosmic Speculation near Dumfries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
A garden as space for political experience Little Sparta in Stonypath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Symbolic readings Garden of the AMU professional training centre in Holstebro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Forest park with computer interface Interpolis Garden in Tilburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
No flowers on board District Parks in Bijlmermeer near Amsterdam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Traces in steel Varus Battle Museum and Park in Bramsche-Kalkriese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Heroic death in the tulip field Black Garden in Nordhorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Reading along historic city lines Invalidenpark in Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
White memory on a green ground Garden of Memories in Duisburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Climbers on “Monte Thyssino” Landscape Park Duisburg Nord Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Art in an artificial Arcadia Museum Island Hombroich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Tales of the water dragon Park of Magic Waters in Bad Oeynhausen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Tree island and woodland clearing District Parks in Kronsberg, Hanover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Iceberg in a sea of lilac Place du Général Leclerc in Tours Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Box-trees parking in Stock Exchange Square Place de la Bourse in Lyon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Fragments of garden history Les Jardins de l’Imaginaire in Terrasson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
The peaceful garden Utopia Garden of Violence in Murten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Empty plinths in the box parterre Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
An urban garden beyond ecological clichés Front Garden and Courtyard for the Basler + Partner Building in Zurich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
A park as a promise Oerliker Park in Zurich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Green fur on a steel skeleton MFO Park in Zurich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
A sunken hortus conclusus Garden for the Fondation Jeantet de Médicine in Geneva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Joints in panoramic view Osservatorio geologico on the Cardada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Landscape in abstract folds Mountain Garden in Graz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Nature fragments in a geometrical network Jardí Botànic de Barcelona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
A young classic with two faces Parc del Clot in Barcelona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
In the garden of the fateful cards Tarot Garden near Garavicchio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Rebellion against Modernism Rock Garden in Chandigarh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Professional/practitioner
Pages
- Main content: 183
Keywords: Gärten; Landschaftsarchitektur; Parks

eBook

Published: May 24, 2005
ISBN: 9783764376628

Hardcover

Published: May 24, 2005
ISBN: 9783764370787