Treib, M, 1993, Modern landscape architecture, The MIT Press, Cambridge
- Author : Treib, M
- Year : 1993
- Publisher : The MIT Press
- Publisher's Location : Cambridge
- ISBN : 0262200929
- Pages : 306
- Abstract : FROM THE BOOK: These 22 essays assess the tenets, accomplishments and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and formulate ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline. The historical and cultural framework within which modern landscape designers have worked is also explored. This critical assessment of modern landscape architecture brings together seminal articles from the 1920s and 1940s by Eckbo, Kiley, Rose, Fletcher Steele, and Christopher Tunnard, and includes contributions by contemporary writers and designers such as Peirce Lewis, Catherine Howett, John Dixon Hunt, Peter Walker, and Martha Schwartz who examine the historical and cultural framework within which modern landscape designers have worked. There are also essays by Lance Neckar, Reuben Rainey, Gregg Bleam, Michael Laurie, and Marc Treib that discuss the designs and legacy of the Americans Tunnard, Eckbo, Church, Kiley, and Robert Irwin. Dorothee Imbert takes up Pierre-Emile Legrain and French modernist gardens of the 1920s, and Thorbjoern Andersson reviews experiments with stylized naturalism developed by Erik Glemme and others in the Stockholm park system
- Comments : KEYWORDS: landscape architecture, landscape design, modernism, garden design, history.