"Are gardens anything more than collections of plants? Spaces for leisure activities? Extensions that protect the private house from the public road? Art objects appreciated by a relatively small group of connoisseurs? To consider such questions this guidebook invites readers on a tour of ten beautiful gardens as depicted in thousands and thousands of pages of fiction written by the most skillful of novelists over a period of almost a mi ..."
"Thomas Balsley is a renowned American landscape architect whose NYC-based studio is responsible for some of the most notable and richly awarded spaces throughout the U.S. and Far East. This volume of selected works displays the sweeping range of that work over the past 25 years; consisting of public and private parks, plazas, campuses, and waterfronts and attests to the extraordinary level of design excellence that has defined his inter ..."
"American and Japanese landscape architects Peter Walker William Johnson Partners and OHTORI Consultants joined to build a plaza in the midst of a huge development project in Saitama, Japan."
"Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's engraving Coup d'oeil du theatre Besancon, in which the architect's building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the centerpiece of in this intellectual archaeology. Rodolphe el-Khoury's close reading of Ledoux's celebrated icon uses it to excavate the foundations of architectural transparency, Modernism's most potent and lasting "invention," which is here traced back to an intellectual milieu that prec ..."
"Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) was formed in 1983. Their projects, executed worldwide, vary both in scale and type: urban design and planning, corporate headquarters and university campuses, parks, plazas and gardens. Exploring the relationships between art, culture and context, Peter Walker re-forms the landscape - whether urban or natural - and challenges traditional concepts of design. This book features the company's work from the ..."
"Best known as the firm chosen to work on the World Trade Center Memorial, the landscape architecture projects of Peter Walker and Partners vary both in scale and program: urban design and planning, corporate headquarters and university campuses, parks, plazas, museums, and gardens. Exploring the relationships of art, culture, and context, Walker and the members of the firm re-form the landscape challenging traditional concepts of design ..."
Land Marks Saitama Plaza: Forest in the Sky by JaneBrownGillette 64 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-1-888931-24-2, ISBN: 1-888931-24-8
Site, Sight, Insight Essays on Landscape Architecture (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by John Dixon Hunt, Peter Walker, JaneBrownGillette Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4800-5, ISBN: 0-8122-4800-7
""Site, Sight, Insight" presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the ins ..."
12 Offices of Hideo Sasaki (Landmarks) by Melanie Simo, JaneBrownGillette, Spacemaker Press Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2006 by Spacemaker Press ISBN-13: 978-1-888931-22-8, ISBN: 1-888931-22-1
"Several of today's most influential firms in the field of landscape architecture have a common origin in the firm of Hideo Sasaki and Associates, which was established in 1953, and in a distinguishing belief of that firm's founder: the commitment to collaborative practice. Sasaki (1919-2000) believed that large, complex problems of planning and design require teams of professionals from planning, urban design, landscape architecture, an ..."