The modern architectural landscape /
" In The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between 1915 and the mid-1980s. Case studies highlight landscapes in the public realm rather than the private garden, which had...
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Minneapolis ; London :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
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- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a new architectural landscape
- 1. Social Idealism and Urban Landscape: Sunnyside Gardens vs. Romerstadt
- 2. The Barcelona Pavilion as Landscape Garden: Modernity and the Picturesque
- 3. The Urban Landscapes of Erik Gunnar Asplund: Architecture between "Nature" and the City
- 4. Toward a Spiritual Landscape: The Woodland Cemetery and Swedish Burial Reform
- 5. A Landscape "Fit for a Democracy": Jože Plečnik at Prague Castle
- 6. Collaborative Fruits: Garrett Eckbo's Communal Landscapes
- 7. From the Virgilian Dream to Chandigarh: Le Corbusier and the Modern Landscape
- 8. Hilberseimer and Caldwell: Intersecting Ideologies in Lafayette Park
- 9. The Once and Future Park: From Central Park to OMA's Parc de la Villette
- Afterword
- Notes
- Publication History
- Index.