In cities around the world, we are redefining our sense of urban living. No longer satisfied with a grey, sterile metropolis, we want the best of both worlds û the energy and diversity of the city, but a connection with nature too. Filled with practical advice, projects and inspiring stories from bus stop landscapers, guerilla gardeners, urban homesteaders and rooftop beekeepers from all over the world.

Whether located right in the heart of a metropolis or on sprawling sites in the countryside, sculpture parks and gardens have become increasingly popular destinations for art and nature lovers alike. Art Parks is a useful guide to outdoor sculpture parks throughout the United States in both urban and suburban environments. Featuring works by such important artists as Alexander Calder, Lewis DeSoto, Olafur Eliasson, William Tucker, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Moore, Isaumu Noguchi, Louise Bourgeois, Mark di Suvero, Jean Dubuffet, Andy Goldsworthy and Donald Judd, among others. From large-scale parks in a natural setting, to small sculpture gardens in urban surroundings, to corporate collections displayed a suburban environment, this useful guide contains all important outdoor sculpture collections in the United States and includes four maps group which group the parks geographically and list them both by type and location.

Some of Bernard Trainor''s best known gardens, and those this monograph portrays, are monumental; they unfold over many acres, across inland hills or along the Pacific coast, and extend visually toward miles of adjourning land that is often part of state preserves. On these one-of-a-kind tracts, Trainor applies simple, understated frames to rugged natural panoramas, the better to bring them into focus. Instead of calling attention to itself his work sketches lines around the wondrous, drawing viewers outward.

After a brilliant career as a stylist in Paris and New York, culminating in ten years with Hermès, Nicole de Vésian (19161996) retired to Provence, where, at the age of 70, she began designing La Louve. Now a European icon, this garden was soon inspiring designers and gardeners from New Zealand to New England. Nicole de Vésian had, as Louisa Jones puts it, a feeling for space the way some musicians have perfect pitch for volumes, planes and textures, all transformed by the liquid Mediterranean light. On these narrow terraces, she created a garden for year-round living, minimalist but sensuous. The plants she shaped into beautifully proportioned, grey and green tapestries were often the very species which grow wild on the hillside opposite: cypress, laurel, arbutus, rosemary and thyme. Some visitors consider this a formal garden, others see it as wild, or even Japanese. Vésian also designed other gardens nearby, largely unknown, presented here for the first time.

Until recently, most green rooftop gardens were little more than variations on sedum mats on four inches of soil. Now, designers are creating cutting-edge green roofs that focus not only on critical environmental issue like heat, storm management, and ecosystem development, but also on the aesthetics, offering beautiful, livable, sustainable landscapes. The Professional Design Guide to Green Roofs is a comprehensive exploration of rooftop garden design and the process behind it. It covers everything landscape architects and garden designers need to know to create a beautiful garden in the sky. With lush photography, international examples, and solid how-to information, this is an essential resource for all design professionals.

Flowers in the World''s Most Beautiful Gardens puts the spotlight on the star of the garden - the flower. Tracing the history of flower gardens from the Middle Ages to today, the book discusses the types of flowers commonly planted, the landscape designs, the advances in technology, and how these practices have changed throughout the centuries. Each chapter also focuses on a significant type of bloom - the rose, iris, and tulip, among others. Illustrated with more than 180 exquisite photographs by Alain Le Toquin, this book features the world''s most extraordinary flower gardens, showcasing gardens in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, New Zealand, Russia, the United States, Thailand, and many more.

Frank Erichsen - ung, seri¢s bondemand på Djursland - giver i denne bog sit bud på, hvordan man på én sæson klarer: - at bygge et drivhus, - h¢ste sine æbler og lave cider af dem (sammen med nabo Claude), - holde gæs og bygge dem et hus, - lave sin egen ¢kse, - slå sit eget h¢ med egen hjemmekonstruerede le, - få det bedste udbytte af sine b¢nner i k¢kkenhaven, - og få det daglige arbejde og familieliv til at gå op i en h¢jere enhed. ''Siden ganske ung har jeg haft en stor interesse for at arbejde med det, man under en hat kan kalde for selvforsyning. Selvforsyning som målet og midlet for min tilværelse var dog noget der f¢rst langt senere kom ind i billedet. For mig var det og er det stadig den euforiske fornemmelse af at tilegne sig kundskaber, der g¢r en i stand til at klare sig selv, der var motivationen. Hvad end det så er at holde hest, sætte rypesnare, lufte en traktor eller dyrke guler¢dder uden orm.''

Despite its importance to place-making, urban planning and the environment, landscape design has often played an inferior role to architecture. Coinciding with heightened social sensitivities, advances in material application, data-driven mapping techniques and digital technologies and construction methods, new practices in landscape design are producing a new wave of work around the world. This overdue publication presents work by the 50 most innovative practices across the globe. From dedicated landscape designers to architects turning their hand to the horizontal plane, an entirely new language of design is reshaping our gardens, public squares, leisure areas and business parks. A successor to Digital Architecture Now, this largeformat, highly visual publication is packed with inspirations and new spatial ideas for a world of more beautifully designed outdoors.

Beskrivelser af væksthuse og orangerier der både tjener som vækststed for planter og som opholdssrum. I bogen behandles foruden pasning af forskellige planter også emner som placering og indretning, dufte, belægninger, skyggegardiner og meget andet.

Naturen & Kunsten - landskabshavens kulturhistorie i Danmark 1780 - 1830 tager udgangspunkt i dette modsætningsfyldte begrebspar, som var centralt - ikke alene for den landskabelige have - men for tiden som sådan. Landskabshaven groede ud af en voksende naturf¢lelse og civilisationstræthed og skabte nye haveformer med naturen som forbillede, vel at mærke en arrangeret og forsk¢nnet natur. Naturen & Kunsten omhandler den landskabelige have i Danmark i årtierne omkring 1800, en brydningstid mellem oplysning og romantik. Landskabshaven var et kulturfænomen med store variationer, bl.a. bestemt af de topografiske forudsætninger, det sociale milj¢ og ejerens personlighed. Naturen & Kunsten beskriver, karakteriserer og analyserer 15 kendte og ukendte haver. Omdrejningspunktet er relationerne have-tid-sted-milj¢-ejer. Bogen prydes af et stort og enestående samtidigt illustrationsmateriale fra mere end 50 institutioner og private ejere i ind- og udland.

The city does not exist without landscape, nor landscape without the city. The original landscape is always reflected in the form of the city. But how is architectonic coherence between the city and the landscape really achieved? This book sketches the development of the urban landscape from the Renaissance to the present. The examples include urban landscapes and parks in Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Boston, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Cologne.

Landscape is the appearance a particular area has, as well as its perception by those who view it. It is often the product of cultural conditions and is an image in our consciousness. Landscape is familiar to us, it serves as a home and a reminder of the past; it is omnipresent. The most exciting aspect of landscape, be it urban, agrarian, forest, water, mountainous, or desert, is its great variety and tremendous dynamism. No two areas are alike. The landscape is constantly undergoing change. This book presents selected international projects by the successful practice Kamel Louafi Landscape Architects from Berlin. In an abundance of images, sketches, and essays the practices'' attitude toward landscape becomes apparent: the site, its context and history, and the overall theme itself define the interventions, as well as the four seasons and the course of time. Landscape Interventions is the articulation of imagination.

What potential for design can be found in damaged or even devastated landscapes? What do we understand by a workshop for new landscapes? Building exhibitions have enjoyed a 100-year tradition in Germany. But the first Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) to redesign a post-mining landscape creatively was implemented in Lusatia - a region much impaired by man''s over-exploitation. What did the IBA give to Lusatia? What methods and processes may be applied in other regions beyond Lusatia? Ten authors explore these questions by highlighting the changes after ten years IBA in Lusatia. They look at the region from a wide range of perspectives: from inside and out, but also from the viewpoints of history, politics, culture, technology and art, and that of the people involvedùlocal residents and planners.

Blomsterkunstneren Anne Just og professor, designer og arkitekt MAA, Claus Bonderup, har i Nordjylland skabt en unik symbiose mellem hans hus og hendes have. Hvis man kan tale om hans og hendes. For begge dele er resultat af to personligheders gensidige påvirkning og udvikling af hinandens tanker og ideer. Haven i Hune besøges hvert år af over 20.000. Hans hovedværk - det arktiske center i Finland - har årligt omkring 100.000 gæster. Bogen tegner et portræt af parret - af arkitekten og kunstneren. Af huset og haven - deres livsværk. Et nystiftet fond sikrer haven og huset for eftertiden.

Turning the world green. The architecture of the great outdoors. One of the hottest areas of contemporary design is clearly landscape architecture. No matter what the architectural style of the moment, the green areas around houses, stadiums or corporate headquarters have taken on a considerable importance, all the more so with the emphasis on ecology and green design. This book calls on the work of the top designers of the moment, from Ken Smith, author of the "Museum of Modern Art''s" rooftop garden to West8 from Rotterdam, but also on architects ranging from Foreign Office to Tadao Ando who have long been fascinated by the environments of their buildings. There are new names like the Lebanese landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic and well-known ones like Martha Schwartz. There are established firms like the Wirtz family from Belgium or Gustafson Porter from the United States and young creators like Sophie Agata Ambroise from Lugano. The limit between architecture and landscape architecture is not