European Landscape Architecture: Best Practice in Detailing

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European Landscape Architecture This is an important new book about landscape con- struction and good detailed design. It is not ...

First published 2007 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and C ...

European Landscape Architecture Best practice in detailing Edited by Jens Balsby Nielsen, Torben Dam and Ian Thompson ...

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Contents vii Foreword ix Acknowledgements x Contributors xi Illustration credits 1 Introduction Jens Balsby Nielsen, Torben Dam ...

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vii Design proposes ideas but it is through the medium of landscape detail that these ideas are projected as a material reality ...

viii dead-ends, backtracking, leaps of imagination and periods of creative design synthesis. The case studies do not, as the edi ...

ix This book has been long in the making and has passed through many hands. The editors would like to thank the authors of the v ...

x Boudewijn Almekinders is a principal of OKRA Landscape Architects, Utrecht, and a tutor in the Department of Landscape Archite ...

xi Illustration credits The authors and publishers would like to thank the following individuals and institutions for giving per ...

xii 6.5 Ben ter Mull 6.6c ABT Bouwtechniek 6.6d büro O.O.G. 6.11 permission through the publisher 6.10; 6.12a–d; Ad Koolen 6.13 ...

This is a book about landscape construction and the importance of good detailed design, but it is not a book of standard details ...

Introduction The title of the book is European Landscape Architecture: The Details, and all the case studies are drawn from Euro ...

Introduction the oriental influence upon European design, repre- sented in the eighteenth century by the passion for chinoiserie ...

Introduction Both Barcelona and Paris exemplify an enthusiasm for urbanism. Over the past decade landscape architecture seems to ...

Introduction What has all this meant in terms of detailed design, the main concern of this book? There is little doubt that it h ...

Introduction These case studies are presented in the conviction that they can be an aid both to creative work and to education. ...

Introduction this book were not asked to follow a particular met- hod, aspects of all three approaches are evident. A good case ...