"Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of thirty-seven significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance. An informative and easy-to-read reference volume for practitioners and students alike, it presents key precedents in landscape architecture using site plans and recent photographs to showcase each project. Organised and presented in twelve sections based on project type, each project is examined on the basis of date, previous site condition, designer(s), design intentions, current composition, unique features, ownership and management, and comparable projects. Each chapter offers an insightful critique of the featured projects. Written by the authors of Great City Parks, the book posits that these carefully-selected key projects have maintained their status throughout the ages because they express values and design intentions that continue to inform the practice of the landscape architecture in the present day. The book concludes with a ten-point summary of lessons for professional practice gleaned from the studies. Including a wide range of case studies from countries such as western Europe, USA, Canada, India, Japan and China, and lavishly illustrated with over 200 full-colour images, this book is a must-have volume for anyone interested in the history and current practice of landscape architecture"--
Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of 37 significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance. Being an informative and easy-to-read reference volume for practitioners and students alike, it presents key precedents in landscape architecture using site plans and recent photographs to showcase each project.
Organised and presented in 12 sections based on project type, each project is examined based on date, previous site condition, designer(s), design intentions, current composition, unique features, ownership and management, and comparable projects. Each chapter offers an insightful critique of the featured projects.
Written by the authors of Great City Parks, the book posits that these carefully selected key projects have maintained their status throughout the ages because they express values and design intentions that continue to inform the practice of the landscape architecture in the present day. The book concludes with a ten-point summary of lessons for professional practice gleaned from the studies.
Including a wide range of case studies from countries including many in western Europe, the United States, Canada, India, Japan and China, and lavishly illustrated with over 200 full-colour images, the book is a must-have volume for anyone interested in the history and current practice of landscape architecture.
This book is a case-by-case study of thirty-seven significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide. An informative and easy-to-read reference volume for practitioners and students alike, it presents key precedents in landscape architecture using site plans and recent photographs to showcase each project.
1. Water 1.1 Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Viterbo, Italy Terraced water
garden 1.2 Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, Kashmir, India Moghal pleasure garden
1.3 Miroir deau, Bordeaux, France Water feature / focus of urban
regeneration
2. Landform 2.1 Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington DC, USA
Terraced hillside garden 2.2 Parc Diderot, Courbevoie, France Plunging
landform 2.3 Northala Fields, Ealing, London Conical roadside earthworks
3.
Plant Collections 3.1 Villandry, Indre-et-Loire, France Renaissance chāteau
garden + potager extraordinaire 3.2 Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, England
Manor house garden
4. Enclosed Spaces 4.1 Courtyards of the Alhambra,
Granada, Spain Moorish courtyards 4.2 Wang Shi Yuan, Suzhou, PR China
Classical Chinese garden 4.3 Paley Park, East 53rd Street, New York, USA
Pocket park
5. Private Gardens 5.1 Entsu-ji, Kyoto, Japan Zen monastery
garden 5.2 Miller Garden, Columbus, Indiana, USA Domestic garden 5.3 Little
Sparta, Stonypath, Lanarkshire, Scotland Concrete poets garden
6.
Commemorative Landscapes 6.1 Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA Rural cemetery 6.2 Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm, Sweden Forest
cemetery 6.3 Kennedy Memorial, Runnymede, Surrey, England Memorial to
president of United States
7. Private Parkland 7.1 Vaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy,
France Baroque chateau garden 7.2 Rousham Park, Oxfordshire, England
Arcadian parkland 7.3 Bloedel Forest Reserve, Washington State, USA Forest
reserve 7.4 Kröller-Müller Sculpture Garden, Netherlands Sculpture garden
8. City Parks 8.1 Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris, France City park on
restored site 8.2 Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, USA American pastoral
city park 8.3 Landschaftspark, Duisburg-Nord, Germany Post industrial city
park
9. Campuses 9.1 Academical Village, University of Virginia, USA
University campus 9.2 St Catherines College, Oxford, England University
college campus 9.3 Deere & Company World Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, USA
Corporate headquarters 9.4 Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada Government
precinct
10. Linear Landscapes 10.1 Grand Rounds, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Urban parkway 10.2 Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia and North Carolina, USA
Rural parkway / national park 10.3 Promenade Samuel de-Champlain, Quebec
City, Canada Riverfront boulevard
11. Housing Landscapes 11.1 Chatham
Village, Pittsburgh, USA Garden suburb 11.2 Lafayette Park, Detroit, USA
Inner city housing
12. Urban Landscapes 12.1 Pienza, Val dOrcia, Italy
Renaissance urbanism / medieval townscape 12.2 Savannah Wards and Squares,
Georgia, USA Enlightenment urbanism 12.3 Place Stanislas and Place de la
Carričre, Nancy, France Enlightenment civic design 12.4 Edinburgh New Town,
Scotland Georgian city extension
Alan Tate is a Fellow and Past President of the United Kingdom Landscape Institute and a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. He has a PhD in Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art. Tate is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba where he was Head of Department for 12 years between 2000 and 2019.
Marcella Eaton has a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Manitoba and a PhD in Landscape Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art. She is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba and was Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Architecture from 2009 to 2015.
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