Fabris, L.M.F., 2010, Nature as a Lover – Richard Haag Associates, Maggioli Editore, Santarcangelo di Romagna
- Author : Fabris, L.M.F.
- Year : 2010
- Title English : Nature as a Lover
- Publisher : Maggioli Editore
- Publisher's Location : Santarcangelo di Romagna
- ISBN : 9788838753415
- Pages : 170
- Edition : 1st
- Abstract : “Landscape architecture is the only profession that embraces Nature as a lover,” says Richard Haag, the only American landscape architect to be twice winner of the ASLA ‘President's Award for Design Excellence’. Founder of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington State (Seattle), his study of this discipline has always gone hand-in-hand with the exercise of his profession – as can be seen in the vast number of projects that have had a decisive effect upon the appearance of Seattle. Haag’s art has always been true environmental planning and design, based not solely upon the application of technology to the environment but upon a just balance between Nature and technology. This monograph tells for the first time the history of the influential Richard Haag Associates studio; drawing upon a previously unpublished archive, it presents a total of 26 projects, including such famous designs as the Gas Works Park and the Bloedel Reserve. It is a useful source book for all those whose approach to environmental planning and design is predicated primarily upon landscape architecture.