Title: Icons of twentieth-century landscape design /
Authors: Campbell, Katie,
Date: 2006
Publisher: Frances Lincoln,
Physical description: 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: "The twenty-nine landscapes chosen for this book have dramatically changed the way we look at designed outdoor spaces." "In the early years of the twentieth century landscape designers attempted to create a new style to reflect the modern age. Rejecting the past, they combined industrial materials with avant-garde aesthetics to create startling new spaces. Inspired by contemporary architecture and introducing Jungian ideas they produced some extraordinarily potent landscapes. But often visitors find them bewildering, their meanings obscure, their aesthetics alien." "Katie Campbell opens our eyes to the radical ideas, new materials and artistic intentions and achievements behind her chosen sites. She overturns our preconceptions and demonstrates the value and originality of these artworks." "All the sites still exist in some form and most can be visited. They range from Frank Lloyd Wright's fusion of architecture and landscape, through Martha Schwartz's incorporation of wit and irony in garden design to Richard Haag's attempts to create a public park reconciled with an abhorred industrial past."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Park Güell / Antonio Gaudi -- Woodland Cemetery / Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz -- Villa Noailles garden / Gabriel Guevrekian -- Villa Savoye / Le Corbusier -- Naumkeag / Fletcher Steele -- Barcelona Pavillion / Mies van der Rohe -- Amsterdam Bospark / Jacobus Pieter Thijsse -- Bentley Wood / Christopher Tunnard -- Falling Water / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Ministry of education and health / Roberto Burle Marx -- El Novillero, the Dewey Donnell garden / Thomas Church -- Miller house / Dan Kiley -- UNESCO garden / Isamu Noguchi -- Los Arboledas / Luis Barragán -- Lovejoy Plaza / Lawrence Halprin -- Il Roseto / Pietro Porcinai -- Eggborough power station / Brenda Colvin -- John F. Kennedy memorial / Geoffrey Jellicoe -- Maeght Foundation / José Luis Sert -- Little Sparta / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- Spiral Jetty / Robert Smithson -- Gas Works Park / Richard Haag -- Bagel garden / Martha Schwartz -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Maya Lin -- Getty Centre garden / Robert Irwin -- Parc de la Villette / Bernard Tschumi -- Prospect cottage / Derek Jarman -- Garden of Cosmic Speculation / Charles Jencks -- Landscape for Libeskind's Jewish Museum / Lützow 7.
Notes: Includes index. "First published in USA in 2007"--T.p. verso.
Subject headings (LCSH): Architecture, Modern--21st century; Landscape architects.; Landscape architecture--History--20th century.; Landscape design--History--20th century.