This second edition continues to provide guidelines on the best practice using an iterative, assessment-based approach to design developing for all types and scales of development, with comprehensive advice on the practice and monitoring of landscape and visual impact assessment. This edition updates and extends the existing Guidelines introducing new techniques, tool methodologies and applications.
Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens
Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies.
These essays span the wide range of Coffin’s work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin’s approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of his archival research, including his discovery of crucial documents on the Emilian architect Giovan Battista Aleotti and the only documentary evidence identifying Vignola as the architect of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia. Other essays take a much broader cultural view, investigating, for example, the phenomenon of public access to private Renaissance gardens, elucidating the evolving meaning of images of the goddess Venus in English gardens, and identifying the significance of the decorative programs of monuments as diverse as the Villa Belvedere in Rome and the eighteenth-century gardens at Rousham in Oxfordshire.
The book also includes a commentary on each essay, written by one of Coffin’s former students; a full analytical index; and a complete bibliography of Coffin’s work.
Creating Knowledge
Creating Knowledge formulates an interdisciplinary position on urban design that recognizes the huge range of loaded issues we bring to the subject today. What are the ethical obligations of design, for example, amid the effects of climate change, multiculturalism and globalization on the contemporary urban landscape? Is there room for real creativity in the kinds of issues that face urban planning today? Tackling these and other subjects, various experts from the fields of philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, art and urban development comment on the potential and actual application of creativity to those thornier scenarios in which questions of ethical urban design might arise. Examples of internationally renowned landscape architecture indicate how closely the production of ideas, design practice and aesthetic expression are bound up with research and the investigation of the landscape.
