The architecture of landscape, 1940-1960
By: edited by Marc Treib.
Contributors: Treib, Marc.
Series: Penn studies in landscape architecture
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Landscape architecture -- History; Landscape design -- History
Description: "Following the end of World War II, the primary tasks for many countries were land clearance, reformation, and reconstruction, as well as the reestablishment of functioning infrastructures. These social and environmental concerns, with parallel developments in the fine arts, fostered many of the twentieth century's most consequential developments in landscape design and architecture, and set the course that we still follow to a large degree today.".

"The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 provides a groundbreaking collection of worldwide perspectives on this vital and underappreciated era of landscape architecture. It is also the first critical assessment of this period, with information and insight previously unavailable to English-language readers.".

"With over two hundred illustrations in ten essays by noted historians and theorists from around the world, The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 offers a comprehensive analysis of landscape architecture during an epoch when geographic limits became less important than a sense of world development and an international community of values and design ideas. In this sense, it is a landmark publication."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Marc Treib; title: To erase the garden: modernity in the Swedish garden and landscape -- Thorbjörn Andersson; title: With the sky as ceiling: landscape and garden art in Denmark -- Malene Hauxner; title: Landscape in Britain -- Alan Powers; title: Counting trees and flowers: the reconstructed landscapes of Belgium and France -- Dorothée Imbert; title: Teutonic myth, rubble, and recovery: landscape architecture in Germany -- Gert Gröning; title: After the "other" war: landscapes of home, north and south -- Catherine Howett; title: Making your private world: modern landscape architecture and House Beautiful, 1945-1965 -- Dianne Harris; title: Inclusion of modernism: Brasilidade and the garden -- Rossana Vaccarino; title: New land, new language: shifting grounds in Australian attitudes to landscape, architecture, and modernism -- Philip Goad; title: Converging arcs on a sphere: renewing Japanese landscape design-- Marc Treib