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Peter Walker And Partners
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Peter Walker And Partners written by Peter Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Landscape architects categories.
Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) was formed in 1983.Their projects, executed worldwide, vary both in scale and type: urban design and planning, corporate headquarters and university campuses, parks, plazas and gardens. Exploring the relationships between art, culture and context, Peter Walker re-forms the landscape whether urban or natural and challenges traditional concepts of design. This book features the companys work from the last seven years, all of which brilliantly showcases the firms range. It includes sixteen built projects in Europe, Asia and the United States parks, corporate headquarters, foundations, museums and urban plazas; seven works in progress, including the American Embassy in Beijing and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City; and ten site planning and urbandesign projects, among them millennium parklands in Sydney,Australia and Novartis Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.The book opens with a short essay about the organization and philosophy of the office, the partners and associates, and the particular way that PWP practises the craft of landscape architecture. It concludes with four competitions, including one for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Peter Walker And Partners
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: Oro Editions
Release Date : 2005
Peter Walker And Partners written by Peter Walker and has been published by Oro Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Landscape architects categories.
Holding to the highest standards of technical craft to create problem-solving landscapes that attain artful expression, Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) is responsible for some of the most beautiful iconic works of landscape architecture in the world. This book features projects since 1997 that show the range of the firm's work, including sixteen built projects in the United States, Europe, and Asia (parks, corporate headquarters, foundations, museums, and urban plazas), seven works in progress (including the American Embassy in Beijing and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City), ten site-planning and urban-design projects (including Millennium Parklands in Sydney, Australia, and Novartis Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland). The book opens with a short essay about the organization and philosophy of the office, the partners, associates, and the particular way that PWP artfully practices the craft of landscape architecture. It concludes with four competitions, including one for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. ILLUSTRATIONS: 431 photos
Peter Walker And Partners Nasher Sculpture Center Garden
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Author : Jane Amidon
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2006-07-06
Peter Walker And Partners Nasher Sculpture Center Garden written by Jane Amidon and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-06 with Architecture categories.
One of America's leading landscape architects, Peter Walker has created a variety of significant landscapes worldwide, including joint projects with architects I. M. Pei, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. Walker's broad field of practice includes urban design and planning and the creation of landscapes ranging in size from parks and university campuses to corporate headquarters, plazas, and private gardens. Peter Walker and Partners / Nasher Sculpture Center Garden focuses on his garden in Dallas, Texas, a set of "outdoor galleries" showcasing the Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. A museum without a roof, the garden, with its subtle balance of art and nature, is also a serene urban park, whose beauty perfectly complements Renzo Piano's design for the center. Peter Walker's informative sketches, drawings, and plans, along with photographs of the final design, reveal the delicate balance between art, culture, and context at the heart of the Nasher Foundation Sculpture Garden. Source Books in Landscape Architecture, produced in collaboration with the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, provide detailed documentation of important new projects.
Pwp Landscape Architecture
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Pwp Landscape Architecture written by Peter Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Architecture categories.
Book features projects created since 2005 that show the range of the firm's work, including twelve built projects and eight works in progress.
Peter Walker
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Release Date : 1990
Peter Walker written by Peter Walker and has been published by Rizzoli International Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Architecture categories.
Invisible Gardens
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1996
Invisible Gardens written by Peter Walker and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Luis Barragan, Daniel Urban Kiley, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, Ian McHarg, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo. They were the pioneers of a new profession in America, the first to offer alternatives to the historic landscape and the park tradition, as well as to the suburban sprawl and other unplanned developments of twentieth-century cities and institutions. The work is described against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the postwar recovery, American corporate expansion, and the environmental revolution. The authors look at unbuilt schemes as well as actual gardens, ranging from tiny backyards and play spaces to urban plazas and corporate villas. Some of the projects discussed already occupy a canonical position in modern landscape architecture; others deserve a similar place but are less well known. The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.
The Miracle Pill
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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-01-21
The Miracle Pill written by Peter Walker and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-21 with Self-Help categories.
'This book is pretty life-changing – encouraging, optimistic, rich with information. It got me off the sofa.' Jeremy Vine 'This is such a lovely, ambitious, fascinating book. Essential lockdown reading. It allows us to reimagine our world and our bodies: we can move more.' Dr Xand van Tulleken, TV presenter 'Truly uplifting' Chris Boardman What is the 'miracle pill', the simple lifestyle change with such enormous health benefits that, if it was turned into a drug, would be the most valuable drug in the world? The answer is movement and the good news is that it's free, easy and available to everyone. Four in ten British adults, and 80% of children, are so sedentary they don’t meet even the minimum recommended levels for movement. What’s going on? The answer is simple: activity became exercise. What for centuries was universal and everyday has become the fetishised pursuit of a minority, whether the superhuman feats of elite athletes, or a chore slotted into busy schedules. Yes, most people know physical activity is good for us. And yet 1.5 billion people around the world are so inactive they are at greater risk of everything from heart disease to diabetes, cancer, arthritis and depression, even dementia. Sedentary living now kills more people than obesity, despite receiving much less attention, and is causing a pandemic of chronic ill health many experts predict could soon bankrupt the NHS. How did we get here? Daily, constant exertion was an integral part of humanity for millennia, but in just a few decades movement was virtually designed out of people’s lives through transformed workplaces, the dominance of the car, and a built environment which encourages people to be static. In a world now also infiltrated by ubiquitous screens, app-summoned taxis and shopping delivered to your door, it can be shocking to realise exactly how sedentary many of us are. A recent study found almost half of middle-aged English people don’t walk continuously for ten minutes or more in an average month. At current trends, scientists forecast, the average US adult will expend little more energy in an average week than someone who spent all their time in bed. This book is a chronicle of this very modern and largely unexplored catastrophe, and the story of the people trying to turn it around. Through interviews with experts in various fields - doctors, scientists, architects and politicians - Peter Walker explores how to bring more movement into the modern world and, most importantly, into your life. Forget the gym, introducing quick and easy lifestyle changes can slow down the ageing process and even reverse many illnesses and increase mental wellbeing.
Designed Ecologies
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Author : William S. Saunders
language : de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-04-30
Designed Ecologies written by William S. Saunders and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Architecture categories.
Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are beyond doubt the foremost landscape architecture practice in China today. The vast scale of China and her apparently boundless growth have enabled Yu to test many ideas that are still largely theories in the Western world. His work – increasingly valued and appreciated in Europe and North America - has attained an extremely high and elegant level in both conception and execution. Kongjian Yu is known for his ecological stance, often against the resistance of local authorities. His guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embracing of nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as floods. Among his most acclaimed projects are Houtan Park for Shanghai Expo, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan. This book explores Yu’s work in 11 essays by noted authors and documents 22 major projects extensively.
Representing Landscape Architecture
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Author : Marc Treib
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2008-02-19
Representing Landscape Architecture written by Marc Treib and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-19 with Architecture categories.
Representing Landscape Architecture offers a broad investigation of how the designed landscape is and has been represented: for design study, for criticism and even for its realization. It has been said that we can only realize what we can imagine. But in order to realize we must convey ideas to others as well as to ourselves. Representation is by no means neutral and the process of communication, the process by which the imagination takes its first form, itself necessarily limits the range of our design possibilities. Computers further remove from cognitive processes and raise new questions about methods and limits. Written by a team of renowned practitioners and academics, this book is the best available reference to date on the many dimensions of landscape representation.
Refining Nature
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Author : Scott Jennings Melbourne
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2020-03-23
Refining Nature written by Scott Jennings Melbourne and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with Architecture categories.
Peter Walker is one of the most seminal and prolific figures in contemporary landscape design worldwide – both as a teacher and as practitioner. Among his best-known works are Nasher Garden in Dallas, Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York. This academic review of Walker's unique oeuvre look closely at his design work and provides a comparative analysis.