Radical Landscapes
Reinventing Outdoor Space
Jane Amidon
Foreword by Kathryn Gustafson
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| ‘A compelling and beautifully written discussion on contemporary landscape design’ | | – Gardens Illustrated |
| ‘One of the most vigorous and accessible accounts of contemporary landscape movements I have read’ | | – Financial Times: Weekend |
| ‘A book to turn to when inspiration is running dry – the bold thinking shown in its pages should enliven any creative process’ | | – Landscape Design |
Landscape architecture today is one of the most exciting and revolutionary areas of design. With environmental awareness at an all-time high, landscape designers are reshaping our appreciation of both natural and man-made surroundings, from small-scale private gardens to large-scale public spaces.
Presenting entirely new ways of seeing, interpreting and designing a ‘landscape’, Radical Landscapes is organized into significant issues and techniques:
• light and colour • movement • order and objects • interaction • new contexts • urban interventions • narrative
Each chapter is illustrated with works by such internationally known designers and architects as Janis Hall, Fernando Caruncho, Adriaan Geuze, Reiser + Umemoto, Peter Walker and Makoto Sei Watanabe.
A comprehensive and challenging evaluation of the present and a compendium of ideas for the future, Radical Landscapes suggests a rich and unexpected variety of ways in which we might interact dynamically and in harmony with the great outdoors.
Also of interest:
Burle Marx: The Lyrical Landscape
Modern Garden Design: Innovation Since 1900
The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of
Martha Schwartz
Avant Gardeners: Fifty Visionaries of the Contemporary
Landscape
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 050028427X | | ISBN-13 978-0500284278 | | | | 27.0 x 25.0 cm | | Paperback | | 192pp | | 433 illustrations, 313 in colour | | First published 2003 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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