Author: Udo Weilacher
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: landscape, partners, latz, architecture, syntax, peter
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2007-12-12
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 3764376155
ISBN-13: 9783764376154

Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in Germany, the Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg, Parco Dora in Turin, Italy and numerous other projects designed and built by Peter Latz and Partners stand as examples of an up-to-date and intelligent approach to alternative environmental technologies and the reclamation of extensive industrial landscapes. In Peter Latz s landscape architecture, ecological and social concerns are translated into an individual aesthetic language that aims to achieve a timeless quality. The different layers and meanings of the sites rich in history are revealed and woven into netw

Authors:Udo Weilacher, Christian Vogt, Martin R. Dean, Udo We
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: kienast, dieter
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-06-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 3764368470
ISBN-13: 9783764368470

Distinctively Dieter Kienast: his gardens, parks, cemeteries and enclosures bear the unmistakeable imprint of his blend of nature and artifice, order and chaos, geometry and organic forms -- sometimes stringent, sometimes playful, and not without irony. This special edition brings together a selection of his most significant creations drawn from the highly successful three volume Birkhauser edition of his complete works. Udo Weilacher, landscape architect and lecturer at the University of Hannover, illuminates Kienast’s accomplishments and his influence in an accompanying essay.