The modern architectural landscape [electronic resource] / Caroline Constant.

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" 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 been...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Constant, Caroline
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Architecture > Environmental aspects.
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Landscape architecture > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Contents
  • 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.