ebook img

In Gardens: Profiles of Contemporary European Landscape Architecture PDF

183 Pages·2005·39.504 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview In Gardens: Profiles of Contemporary European Landscape Architecture

In Gardens Udo Weilacher In Gardens Profiles of Contemporary European Landscape Architecture Photographs by Udo and Rita Weilacher Birkhäuser – Publishers for Architecture Basel •Berlin •Boston Design and production: Atelier Fischer,Berlin Lithography: LVD GmbH,Berlin Printing: Ruksaldruck,Berlin Binding: Helm,Berlin Cover photograph: Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon,Switzerland Frontispiece: Yellow stakes in a lake Translation: Michael Robinson,London This book is also available in a German language edition (ISBN-10: 3-7643-7084-X,ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-7084-8) A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress,Washington D.C.,USA Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie;detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internetat<http://dnb.ddb.de>. This work is subjectto copyright.All rights are reserved,whether the whole or partof the material is concerned,specifically the rights of translation,reprinting,re-use of illustrations,recitation,broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways,and storage in data banks.For any kind of use,permission of the copyrightowner must be obtained. © 2005 Birkhäuser – Publishers for Architecture, P.O.Box 133,CH-4010 Basel,Switzerland Partof Springer Science + Business Media Printed on acid-free paper produced from chlorine-free pulp.TCF ∞ Printed in Germany ISBN-10: 3-7643-7078-5 ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-7078-7 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 www.birkhauser.ch Contents 13 Introduction 96 Place de la Bourse in Lyon Reading in gardens Box-trees parking in Stock Exchange Square 22 Garden of Cosmic Speculation near Dumfries 100 Les Jardins de l’Imaginaire in Terrasson A cosmogenic park landscape Fragments of garden history 28 Little Sparta in Stonypath 108 Garden of Violence in Murten A garden as space for political experience The peaceful garden Utopia 34 Garden of the AMUprofessional training centre 114 Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Holstebro in Rüschlikon Symbolic readings Empty plinths in the box parterre 38 Interpolis Garden in Tilburg 123 FrontGarden and Courtyard for the Forestpark with computer interface Basler + Partner Building in Zurich An urban garden beyond ecological clichés 43 DistrictParks in Bijlmermeer near Amsterdam No flowers on board 130 Oerliker Park in Zurich A park as a promise 48 Varus Battle Museum and Park in Bramsche- Kalkriese 137 MFOPark in Zurich Traces in steel Green fur on a steel skeleton 54 Black Garden in Nordhorn 142 Garden for the Fondation Jeantetde Médicine Heroic death in the tulip field in Geneva A sunken hortus conclusus 59 Invalidenpark in Berlin Reading along historic city lines 147 Osservatorio geologico on the Cardada Joints in panoramic view 65 Garden of Memories in Duisburg White memory on a green ground 152 Mountain Garden in Graz Landscape in abstractfolds 70 Landscape Park Duisburg Nord Climbers on “Monte Thyssino” 158 Jardí Botànic de Barcelona Nature fragments in a geometrical network 75 Museum Island Hombroich Artin an artificial Arcadia 164 Parc del Clotin Barcelona A young classic with two faces 82 Park of Magic Waters in Bad Oeynhausen Tales of the water dragon 169 TarotGarden near Garavicchio In the garden of the fateful cards 87 DistrictParks in Kronsberg,Hanover Tree island and woodland clearing 175 Rock Garden in Chandigarh Rebellion againstModernism 92 Place du Général Leclerc in Tours Iceberg in a sea of lilac 183 Thanks

See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.