Protected Areas and Local Communities
A Challenge for Inland Development
The book collects the outcomes of research on protected areas, driven by the desire of exploring the role these play in an era of global change. The publication explores their management methods, with reference to global strategies for risk reduction...
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Garden at Monceau
ISBN: HB: 9780300254686,
Yale University Press,
November 2020
196 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 62 colour illus., 18 duotone illus.
196 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 62 colour illus., 18 duotone illus.
Originally published in 1779, "Garden at Monceau" is a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orleans, duc de Chartres. With its arr...
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Walls of Suzhou Gardens
A Photographic Journey
ISBN: HB: 9783037786604,
Lars Muller Publishers,
November 2020
64 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm, 31 illus.
64 pp., 25,0x20,0 cm, 31 illus.
At the Classical Gardens of Suzhou in China, surface transforms into space; walls become landscapes. In her journey through this UNESCO World Heritage Site, Swiss French photographer Helene Binet captures the traces of environmental influences on bui...
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33.00 GBP
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Robert Irwin: Getty Garden
Revised Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781606066560,
Getty Publications,
June 2020
144 pp., 22,7x19,1 cm, 75 colour illus.
144 pp., 22,7x19,1 cm, 75 colour illus.
Among the most beloved sites at the Getty Center, the Central Garden has aroused intense interest from the moment artist Robert Irwin was awarded the commission. First published in 2002, "Robert Irwin: Getty Garden" is comprised of a series of discus...
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Mutation and Morphosis
Landscape as Aggregate
ISBN: PB: 9783037786185,
Lars Muller Publishers,
January 2020
700 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 1100 colour and black&white illus.
700 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 1100 colour and black&white illus.
Anyone viewing what we call a ''landscape'' from a distance will recognize that it is an artifact, a habitat created by humans as part of our built environment. Designing this realm carefully is a discipline that is taking on increasing importance to...
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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures
Landscape as Art and Urbanism
ISBN: PB: 9783037786253,
Lars Muller Publishers,
January 2020
288 pp., 20,0x15,0 cm, 73 illus.
288 pp., 20,0x15,0 cm, 73 illus.
Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx's own words have...
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City Beyond Architecture
Sheng-Yuan Huang and the Work of Field Office
The world of today is changing. The center of development has moved to Asia, where more than half of the world's urban population is already living. In the future, Asian settlements will outnumber those of other continents. And, most interestingly, t...
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Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot
The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396679,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
June 2019
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 58 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 58 colour illus.
Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...
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7.95 GBP
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Copper Geographies
It presents a series of legwork explorations of geographically disparate landscapes historically connected by copper. It maps sites of transformation along the production network and commodity chain, documenting the mutation and transformation of cop...
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30.00 GBP
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Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales
ISBN: HB: 9780300232080,
Yale University Press,
June 2018
412 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 177 colour and black&white illus.
412 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 177 colour and black&white illus.
The extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis presents new, never-before published material...
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