The New American Landscape
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The New American Landscape
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Author : Thomas Christopher
language : en
Publisher: Timber Press
Release Date : 2011-04-21
The New American Landscape written by Thomas Christopher and has been published by Timber Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-21 with Gardening categories.
Gardeners are the front line of defense in our struggle to tackle the problems of global warming, loss of habitat, water shortages, and shrinking biodiversity. In The New American Landscape, author and editor Thomas Christopher brings together the best thinkers on the topic of gardening sustainably, and asks them to describe the future of the sustainable landscape. The discussion unfolds from there, and what results is a collective vision as eloquent as it is diverse. The New American Landscape offers designers a roadmap to a beautiful garden that improves, not degrades the environment. It’s a provocative manifesto about the important role gardens play in creating a more sustainable future that no professional garden designer can afford to miss. John Greenlee and Neil Diboll on the new American meadow garden Rick Darke on balancing natives and exotics in the garden Doug Tallamy on landscapes that welcome wildlife Eric Toensmeier on the sustainable edible garden David Wolfe on gardening sustainable with a changing climate Elaine Ingham on managing soil health David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth on sustainable pest solutions Ed Snodgrass and Linda McIntyre on green roofs in the sustainable residential landscape Thomas Christopher on waterwise gardens Toby Hemenway on whole system garden design The Sustainable Site Initiative on the managing the home landscape as a sustainable site
To Live In The New World
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Author : Judith K. Major
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1997
To Live In The New World written by Judith K. Major and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Architecture categories.
While most historians and critics have focused on the treatise, Judith Major gives equal emphasis to Downing's spirited monthly editorials in the Horticulturist. In the journal, Downing "spoke American" and encouraged his countrymen and women to practice economy, to use America's rich natural resources wisely yet artfully, to be content with a little cottage and a few fine native trees.
Shaping The American Landscape
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Author : Charles A. Birnbaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Shaping The American Landscape written by Charles A. Birnbaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Horticulturists categories.
A generous selection of illustrations, together with a list of surviving landscape sites accessible to the public, brings both the subjects and their art to life.
The Making Of The American Landscape
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Author : Michael P. Conzen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
The Making Of The American Landscape written by Michael P. Conzen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Architecture categories.
The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.
Nature And Culture American Landscape And Painting 1825 1875 With A New Preface
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Author : Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2007-01-05
Nature And Culture American Landscape And Painting 1825 1875 With A New Preface written by Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita) and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-05 with Art categories.
In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine
The New American Garden
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Author : James Grayson Trulove
language : en
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Release Date : 1998
The New American Garden written by James Grayson Trulove and has been published by Watson-Guptill Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Gardens categories.
Fertile ideas for home gardens, based on high standards and criteria of design, spring from this lushly illustrated volume which also includes 60 case studies of residential landscape gardens. 400 color illustrations.
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.
Egotopia
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Author : John Miller
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 1997-11-10
Egotopia written by John Miller and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-10 with Architecture categories.
A Silicon Valley public relations consultant and long-time crusader against blatant commercialism, Miller says the American landscape is no longer the physical manifestation of public and communal values, but a manifestations of our exaggerated sense of self. Accusing environmentalists, urban planners, and architects of missing the point, he describes billboards, graffiti, and litter as visual symbols of corporate and personal identities. He calls for legal restraints. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Paradise By Design
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Author : Kathryn Phillips
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Paradise By Design written by Kathryn Phillips and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Gardening categories.
A biography of the landscape architect describes the challenges she faces with nervous clients, stubborn nursery owners, plant diseases and pests, and creating designs using native plants
The American Landscape
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Author : Christian Zapatka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The American Landscape written by Christian Zapatka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
In this sweeping overview of landscape design, painting, and planning, Christian Zapatka examines the history of the physical environment of the United States from the 1830s to the present. Weaving together architectural, art, economic, landscape, political, and social history, Zapatka looks at the American landscape in an engaging and original manner.