PWP landscape architecture : building ideas

by Peter Walker

Other authorsJane Brown Gillette (Author.), Gary R. Hilderbrand (Author.), Gina Crandell (Author.)
Paper Book, 2016

Status

Available

Call number

712 WAL

Call number

712 WAL

Publication

[San Rafael, California] : Oro Editions, [2016]

Description

John Dixon Hunt introduces PWP Landscape Architecture: Building Ideas with a discussion of how we read landscapes and, hence, how they are designed with the reader/client in mind and the historical implications of such efforts. Peter Walker, Gary Hilderbrand, and Gina Crandell trace the history of Peter Walker's various firms from the 1950s until 2000, and Jane Gillette discusses some recent projects in terms of using consultants to further design ideas. Twelve finished projects, seven works in progress, and three competitions, from roughly 2000 to 2015, demonstrate the firm's goals and achievements with an emphasis on the expansion of landscape architecture from the surrounds of buildings to self-sufficient entities that express the highest accomplishments of both ecological function and design.… (more)

Language

ISBN

193593564X / 9781935935643
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