
Selected Works of Landscape Architect John L. Wong
From Private To Public Ground From Small To Tall (Hardcover in Slipcase)
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited
Published on 28. August 2024
Book
Hardback
588 pages
978-1-946226-88-4 (ISBN)
Description
This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of a Landscape Architecture career spanning more than four decades: the life's work of John L. Wong. The featured works were created in collaboration across diverse cultures and countries, employing a vast range of concepts and exploring the whole spectrum of possibilities, from crafting small gardens to planning large-scale neighborhoods, towns and new communities. John L. Wong's prolific body of work is global with focal points in North America, the Middle East, and Asia, especially Japan, Korea and China. In addition to the wide array of project types and locations, a notable portfolio highlight is his long-term design collaboration with Stanford University, which continues to evolve and have a number of far-ranging impacts. More than 150 campus improvement projects at Stanford University (which include campus connections, open space systems, and public realm and site-specific uses) make up this large-scale design work which both reclaims Leland Stanford and Frederick Law Olmsted's 100-year-old vision while also building on that
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
588 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 323 mm
Width: 244 mm
Thickness: 61 mm
Weight
3787 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-946226-88-4 (9781946226884)
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Peter Walker has exerted a significant influence on the field of landscape architecture over a six-decade career. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Walker has taught, lectured, written, and served as an advisor to numerous public agencies while executing leadership of several firms including Sasaki Walker and Associates in 1957 (which became The SWA Group in 1979) and Peter Walker and Partners in 1983 (now known as PWP Landscape Architecture). The scope of his landscape inquiries is expansive as well as deep. David J Neuman is the Founding Principal of Neu Campus Planning, a planning and programming consultancy.