Illustrated History of Landscape Design by Elizabeth Boults

Organized by century and geographic region, this highly visual reference uses hundreds of masterful pen-and-ink drawings to show how historical context and cultural connections can illuminate today's design possibilities. Illustrated History of Landscape Design takes an optical sweep of the iconic landscapes constructed throughout the ages. As an art form, these architectural landscape creations are stamped with societal imprints unique to their environment and place in time. The result is the definitive account of an emerging field that is likely to influence the design of cities for decades to come.A visual journey through the history of landscape design For thousands of years, people have altered the meaning of space by reshaping nature. Generously illustrated, Landscape as Urbanism examines works from around the world by designers ranging from Ludwig Hilberseimer, Andrea Branzi, and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, and Michael Van Valkenburgh. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as urban planning shifted from design to social science, and as urban design committed to neotraditional models of town planning, landscape urbanism emerged to fill a void at the heart of the contemporary urban project.

Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a 'new art' charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social conditions.

In Landscape as Urbanism, one of the field's pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape.Ĭharles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age. It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another-or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. Название: Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory

Illustrated History of Landscape Design by Elizabeth Boults