Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on Landscapes and Gardens

These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces. Asking essential questions about the nature of order and its perception, this book includes in its impressive scope analyses of both historic and modern works with a geographical distribution that extends across Europe, Asia and North America. With unique depth in many areas of study, Treib brings his expertise to bear on a range of inter-related and mutually influential issues within the subject, taking in an assessment of the lives and contributions of a number of leading figures in the field, the contents of a landscape and the meanings ascribed to it, and a theoretical formulation of the ideas from which or by which landscape architecture is produced.


Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on Landscapes and Gardens

Landscape Architecture: Urban Design, Energy-Efficient Landscaping, Conservation Easement, Environmental Design, Paradise Garden

Chapters: Urban Design, Energy-Efficient Landscaping, Conservation Easement, Environmental Design, Paradise Garden, Chinese Garden, Hedge, Hydraulophone, English Garden, Landscape Planning, Sustainable Gardening, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne, Promontory Point, Sod, Loddiges, Natural Landscaping, Mughal Gardens, Royal Park, Melbourne, List of Schools of Landscape Architecture, Burnham Plan, Water Garden, Colonial Revival Garden Restoration and Preservation, Kitchen Garden, Aquascape, Inc., Playscape, Piazza Telematica, Greenway, Landscape Institute, History of Landscape Architecture, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Geotextile, Infinity Edge Pool, Gloriette, Landscape Urbanism, Historic American Buildings Survey, Labash, Desire Path, the Landscape Agency, Placemaking, Ecological Design, the Monument Cemetery of the Lost Cemeteries, Safdarjung’s Tomb, Naturescaping, Landscape Design, Hydroseeding, the Great Rivers Greenway District, Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, Landscape Engineering, Sustainable Landscape Architecture, Environmental Graphic Design, Spatial Design, Landscape Assessment, Gilbert Laing Meason, Landscape Garden, Collective Landscape, Landscape Maintenance, Pattern Gardening, Samban-Lei Sekpil, Pond Liner, American Society of Landscape Architects, European Foundation for Landscape Architecture, Landscape Contracting, Niwaki, Tiltyard, Treatment Wetland, Site Planning, International Federation of Landscape Architects, Deer-Resistant Landscaping, Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, Fountaineer, Hard Landscape Materials. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 303. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Chinese Classical Garden (; zhng guó g din yuán lín), also called Chinese Scholar’s Garden, is a place for solitary or social contemplation of nature. Chinese garden…More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1590884


Landscape Architecture: Urban Design, Energy-Efficient Landscaping, Conservation Easement, Environmental Design, Paradise Garden

Gabriele Basilico -Silicon Valley

This large format book explores, in more than 100 black & white images, the “phenomenon” called Silicon Valley. Gabriele Basilico’s background in both photography and architecture qualify him particularly for this look at both the landscape and buildings of this region. Published on the occasion of the Gabriele Basilico exhibition at MoMA San Francisco (January 2008), this catalogue also includes 70 never-before-published photographs of San Francisco. An introductory essay by Sandra Philips explores his work.


Gabriele Basilico -Silicon Valley