"Told in 160 biographical essays illustrated with more than 450 plans and photographs (100 in full color), this book is the first to embrace the entire scope of this important,...
Pioneers of American Landscape Design: An Annotated Bibliography
Pioneers of American Landscape Design
Shaping the American Landscape explores the lives and work of 151 professionals who quite literally shaped both the land itself and our ideas of what the American landscape means. Although...
Pioneers of American Landscape Design: An Annotated Bibliography
Marie Warsh tells the engrossing history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and 1970s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, grassroots movements, and child-development theories of the period.
"I first considered writing a guide book, but as I learned more about these gardens a much more expansive story unfolded . . ." Miriam Easton RutzMichigan's glorious public gardens...
For sixty years, Fletcher Steele practiced landscape architecture as a fine art, designing nearly seven hundred gardens, from Boston to Detroit, from North Carolina to Canada.
16 Quoted in Angela Miller , The Empire of the Eye : Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics ... in Charles Birnbaum and Julie K. Fix , eds . , Pioneers of American Landscape Design : An Annotated Bibliography , vol . 2 ...
Topics include changes in approaches to garden history and architectural studies over time and new historical investigations and discoveries in Italian and Mughal gardens. Good