Portfolio of Landscape Masters ①

Author: (Spanish) Chevo edited and translated by Ji Wengui
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book presents a pathway for exploring the original intent of landscapes. Its purpose is to transform personal concepts into reality. It is this concept that drives landscape architects to transform vacant land, abandoned areas, or undeveloped spaces around cities into various beautiful landscapes. This book compiles landscape works of various styles. These works not only showcase their unique and distinct personalities but also reveal their common characteristics and development trends. Therefore, this book not only introduces Monika Gora’s dynamic and wide-ranging landscape architecture, which covers diverse styles, but also presents landscape engineering projects designed by Hanna/Olin that cleverly integrate with urban layouts and public spaces. Additionally, it features the distinctive, unconventional, and avant-garde landscape architecture works of other landscape architects, such as Ian Hamilton Finlay’s poetic creations. This book allows readers to see works of completely different styles simultaneously. Jacques Simon excels in employing unconventional means and speed, utilizing topographical concepts and plant arrangements to design landscape architecture, ultimately placing his works in urban settings in a natural and effortless manner. Meanwhile, Preben Skaarup fully applies the principles of stereometry in his design for the Fyn Television Center. This book categorically compiles nearly 19 landscape masters’ recent outstanding landscape works from around the world, introducing their creative philosophies.