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Modern landscape architecture : a critical review
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Modern landscape architecture : a critical review

Author: Marc Treib
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marc Treib
ISBN: 0262200929 : 9780262200929
OCLC Number: 25629955
Notes: Based on papers presented at a symposium held in 1989, at the University of California at Berkeley.
Description: xi, 294 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Contents: American landscape tastes / Peirce Lewis -- Modernism and American landscape architecture / Catherine Howett -- Axioms for a modern landscape architecture / Marc Treib -- Freedom in the garden ; Plants dictate garden forms ; Articulate form in landscape design ; Why not try science? / James C. Rose -- Landscape design in the urban environment ; Landscape design in the rural environment ; Landscape design in the primeval environment / Garrett Eckbo, Daniel U. Kiley, and James C. Rose -- A model for modernism : the work and influence of Pierre-Émile Legrain / Dorothée Imbert -- New pioneering in garden design / Fletcher Steele -- Erik Glemme and the Stockholm park system / Thorbjörn Andersson -- The dialogue of modern landscape architecture with its past / John Dixon Hunt -- Christopher Tunnard : the garden in the modern landscape / Lance M. Neckar. Modern gardens for modern houses : reflections on current trends in landscape design / Christopher Tunnard -- Thomas Church, California gardens, and public landscapes / Michael Laurie --"Organic form in the humanized landscape" : Garrett Eckbo's Landscape for living / Reuben M. Rainey -- Pilgrim's progress / Garrett Eckbo -- Modern and classical themes in the work of Dan Kiley / Gregg Bleam -- Selected work and comments / Dan Kiley -- The practice of landscape architecture in the postwar United States / Peter Walker -- Landscape and common culture since modernism / Martha Schwartz -- Pointing a finger at the moon : the work of Robert Irwin / Marc Treib.
Responsibility: edited by Marc Treib.

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