The New European Landscape
Michael Lancaster(Author)
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
Published on 9. January 1995
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-7506-1546-4 (ISBN)
Description
An appraisal of landscape design in Europe, featuring some 60 key examples from leading practices. This book brings together the work of leading European practitioners and includes examples characteristic of our time, such as commercial and industrial sites, urban parks, road schemes and rural developments. It is an informative reference source, giving information on scheme size, costs, local conditions, plant lists, hard materials, the client and his brief. Landscape design is one of the major European arts. From its origins in embellishing the palaces of kings and princes in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East it reached high peaks of development in the villas of 16th-century Italy, the chateaux of 17th-century France and the country houses of 18th-century Britain. It subsequently became an important aspect of public developments in town planning and urban parks. In this book, Michael Lancaster and his contributors concentrate on European developments that provide an important contribution to 20th-century design. This book should appeal to landscape architects, architects, planners and urban designers.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-1546-4 (9780750615464)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Connections; nature rediscovered; landscape and the city; landscapes of memory.