
Syntax of Landscape
The Landscape Architecture of Peter Latz and Partners
Udo Weilacher(Author)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 2007
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-3-7643-7615-4 (ISBN)
Description
Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in Germany, the Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg, Parco Dora in Turin, Italy and numerous other projects designed and built by Peter Latz and Partners stand as examples of an up-to-date and intelligent approach to alternative environmental technologies and the reclamation of extensive industrial landscapes. In Peter Latz's landscape architecture, ecological and social concerns are translated into an individual aesthetic language that aims to achieve a timeless quality. The different layers and meanings of the sites rich in history are revealed and woven into networks of spatial and temporal relationships that follow rules of their own - the syntax of landscape. A sense of process and dynamism in sustainable landscape structures characterises the works, works that are open for change: they are spaces in development, not parks as finite set pieces.Peter Latz is professor emeritus of the Technische Universität München and has held guest professorships at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Udo Weilacher is professor for Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape at the Technische Universität München.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
21 s/w Abbildungen, 264 farbige Abbildungen
21 b/w and 264 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 29 cm
Width: 23 cm
Weight
1371 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-7615-4 (9783764376154)
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Content
Contents 1. Landscape architecture as cultural valorization 2. Layers of information. How does landscape work? 3. Dealing with "bad places" 4. Landscape Design as experimental invention Main Projects Latz garden, Ampertshausen, Germany Marburg University hospital, Lahnberge, Germany Ulm Science City Plateau de Kirchberg, Luxembourg European City Saarbrucken Harbour Island, Germany Duisburg Nord Landscape Park, Germany Parco Dora, Turin, Italy Hiriya landfill reclamation park, Tel Aviv, Italy