Tim Richardson

Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow's Outdoor Spaces

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Futurescapes is a major resource - aimed at practitioners, enthusiasts and students in the realms of landscape, architecture, urban planning and design - that profiles the fifty most exciting and innovative landscape and garden designers working today. From China and Australia to the USA and Europe, these individuals and studios span the whole spectrum of contemporary practice on landscape and garden design, from the most ecologically minded garden designers to those working at the boundary of art, design and nature. Like its successful precedessor, Avant Gardeners, this lively volume contains inspiration for everyone from amateur gardeners to urban policy-makers, from plant enthusiasts to landscape designers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson / Thames and Hudson Ltd
• New
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 222mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1642g
• ISBN-13: 9780500515778
• ISBN-10: 0500515778
• Artikelnr.: 33228816

Autorenporträt

Tim Richardson is the former landscape editor at Wallpaper*, gardens editor at Country Life and founding editor of New Eden. He is the author of numerous books on landscape design, including The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz, Avant Gardeners, Futurescapes and Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks, published by Thames & Hudson.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Profiles of 50 designers + 6 essays

Rezensionen

'Some of the illustrated designs are truly revolutionary ... I dare you not to be dazzled by these creations ... gardening at its very best' - English Garden