Michael Van Valkenburgh

Gebundenes Buch

Designing a Garden

Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Beschreibung

The intimate Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston embodies the design principles that inform the work of noted landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh

Autor

Michael Van Valkenburgh is the founder of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) and formerly the Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Based in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, his firm is widely acknowledged as a leader in the discipline of landscape architecture. MVVA's design for Brooklyn Bridge Park earned the firm the Municipal Art Society's 2010 Brendan Gill Prize, given each year to the creator of a work of art that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City. Other notable projects include Teardrop Park in New York, waterfront parks in Toronto, Dallas, Tulsa, and Detroit, new gardens at the Menil Collection in Houston, and the landscape surrounding the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's Jackson Park.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Monacelli Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 195mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9781580935524
• ISBN-10: 1580935524
• Artikelnr.: 55195654