Kim Sorvig, J. William Thompson

Sustainable Landscape Construction

A Guide to Green Building Outdoors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A timely update to a foundational text on landscape construction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 217mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1186g
• ISBN-13: 9781610918107
• ISBN-10: 161091810X
• Artikelnr.: 48062598

Autorenporträt

Kim Sorvig is a research associate professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, and co-author of the Sustainable Building Technical Manual, published by the U.S. Green Building Council. Sorvig has consulted and designed for the Historic Santa Fe Foundation; the Rio Grande Botanical Gardens Asian Meditation Gardens; the Las Aves Wildlife Rescue Facility (Espanola, NM); the restoration of the Barnes Arboretum (Philadelphia); and the restoration of the Hammond Museum and Japanese Garden (New York). He has provided site-interpretive designs for private residences and ecological and historical interpretations for several large public parks and projects. He is a registered landscape architect (NM, PA) and member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and International Association of Landscape Ecologists. Sorvig holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Kew Diploma (with distinction) from the Royal Botanic Gardens, London, and a B.A. in Humanities and Social Science from Colorado State University.