Kenneth I. Helphand

Broschiertes Buch

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime

Beschreibung

Examines gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps in the US, as well as gardens created by soldiers at their bases and encampments during the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea and the Second World Wars.

Autor

Kenneth Helphand is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, where he has taught courses in landscape history, theory, and design since 1974. His other books include Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape, Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel, and Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space, coauthored with Cynthia Girling. Helphand served as editor of Landscape Journal from 1994 to 2002. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an honorary member of the Israel Association of Landscape Architects. He has received the Bradford Williams Medal and a Graham Foundation grant, as well as distinguished teaching awards from the University of Oregon and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trinity University Press, U.S.
• First Trade Paper Edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 180mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 790g
• ISBN-13: 9781595340450
• ISBN-10: 1595340459
• Artikelnr.: 23516603