Title: Stucco, stone, and steel : new materials in open space design /
Publisher: Callwey Verlag ; Birkhäuser-Publishers for Architecture,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Space (Architecture); Open spaces.; Landscape design.
Abstract: "Today's landscape architects are finally breaking free from the constraints of a design philosophy which had advocated natural elements and the range of materials now being used in open space design is expanding enormously. Everything is possible but not everything is good and so "Stucco, Stone and Steel" presents successful projects which have been realized over the last few years and which are all distinguished by unusual materials or novel combinations of substances. The trends in contemporary art are inevitably appearing in modified forms in urban spaces. One example is the success of Cor-Ten steel. Sculptors such as Richard Serra elevated it to the spheres of fine art. From there it spread to architecture.